Texas Instruments - Semiconductor Solutions for Medical Applications

Texas Instruments (TI) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through manufacturing, design and sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Medical components from Texas Instruments

TI is helping shape technology to improve the quality and accessibility of medical equipment to revolutionize healthcare in the 21st century and beyond. With its full range of analog and DSP products, from building blocks to complete solutions, plus systems insight, global support infrastructure, advanced process technology and medical industry involvement, TI is helping make innovative medical electronics more flexible, affordable and accessible.

TIs experience in diverse markets, such as wireless communications, consumer electronics, automotive and aerospace, enables engineers to meet increasing needs for higher speeds, higher precision, lower power and smaller equipment, while maintaining the high standards for quality and reliability that the medical market demands.

Consumer and portable medical

• Blood pressure monitors
• Heart rate monitors
• Blood analyzer
• Digital thermometers
• Pulse oximetry

Diagnostic, patient monitoring and therapy

• Electrocardiogram (ECG)
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Blood oxygen (pulse oximetry)
• Ventilation / respiration
• Defibrillators

Medical imaging

• Ultrasound
• Computed tomography (CT)
• Magnetic resonance
• Imaging (MRI)
• Digital X-Ray
• PET scanners

Medical instruments

• Lab equipment
• Dialysis machine
• Analytical instruments
• Surgical instruments
• Dental instruments

Why TI?

TI helps customers meet the challenges presented by aging populations, rising healthcare costs and growing demand for healthcare in emerging economies. TI provides its customers with:

Innovative solutions

• Making advanced medical devices more flexible, affordable and accessible
• Addressing growing needs for portability, wireless connectivity, energy efficiency, performance and precision
• State-of-the-art process technology

Complete portfolio

• Amplifiers, data converters, interface, power management, logic, DSP, ultra-low-power MCUs, wireless connectivity, audio and video ICs
• Catalog, application-specific, enhanced and custom ICs plus die sales options
• Experience from supplying components for a wide range of medical applications
• Local technical support

Quality and reliability

• Experience with long design cycles
• Ability to serve customers of all sizes with a variety of needs
• Long lived product lifetimes and conservative product obsolescence policy ensuring continuity of supply
• Worldwide manufacturing and R&D capabilities
• Member of industry standard organizations and alliances