SHARC 2147x Series Processors: Floating Point Precision Powers Portable Continuous Wave Doppler Processing

SHARC 2147x Series Processors: Floating Point Precision Powers Portable Continuous Wave Doppler Processing


SHARC2147xSeriesProcessors:FloatingPoint
PrecisionPowersPortableContinuousWaveDoppler
Processing


LowCost,LowPowerFloatingPointDigitalSignalProcessorsBringExceptional
MedicalImageQualitytotheField

ByTonyZarola,HealthcareSegmentManager,AnalogDevices

Floatingpointdigitalsignalprocessingisawellestablishedrequirementforprecisiontechnologiesandis
traditionallyspecifiedforapplicationsdemandinghigherlevelsofaccuracyinindustriessuchas
aerospace,industrialmachineryandhealthcare.Medicalultrasoundmachinesaresomeofthemost
sophisticatedsignalprocessingmachinesinuseandtheyareincreasinglyexpandingintotheportable
domain.Thechallengeistoenablethisintensivesignalprocessingwithoutcompromisingsystem
performance.WiththeintroductionofthelowpowerSHARC2147xseriesprocessors,ADIhas
addressedthechallengeofprovi