Logicand Texas Instruments Announce Zoom Medical Development Kit

Logic Product Development (Logic) and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) have released a development kit specifically designed to bring medical products to market. The Zoom Medical Development Kit (MDK) and companion System-on-Modules (SOMs) use OMAP35x processor to provide developers with a compact way to design and produce medical, industrial and other embedded applications. The SOM-based development kit allows medical product companies to develop sophisticated integrated medical devices with advanced graphical user interface, smart and real-time physiological processing and wired and wireless connectivity options for patient monitoring and data logging applications. All of this is accomplished with a lower cost, highly flexible software development environment, and the SOM design ensures rapid manufacturing without requiring additional trials or product releases.



The OMAP35x processors provide laptop-like performance at handheld power levels, with an integrated ARM Cortex-A8 core, TMS320C64x+ digital signal processor (DSP), 2D/3D graphics engine and video accelerators. By combining this processor with the memory and connectivity (wired and wireless) subsystems supported by a operating system into an off-the-shelf OMAP35x SOM, developers can take a superior end-product to market quickly and easily. The OMAP35x processors are available in two package options: 0.65mm pitch BGA and 0.4mm pitch BGA. By using the 0.4mm pitch BGA package with Package-On-Package capability to mount the memory on top of the OMAP35x processor, equipment manufacturers can deliver the smallest form factor and lowest power for medical and other embedded applications. These packages often require complex design and manufacturing, but the SOM module minimizes these challenges.