Software and hardware engineers can easily design medical patient monitoring devices utilizing the DaVinci DM37x video processors from Texas Instruments (TI). The DM3730 and DM3725, with their ARM Cortex-A8 and C64x+ DSP core, offer an imaging and video accelerator (IVA), a 3D graphics processor (DM3730 only), and high-performance peripherals (USB 2.0, SD/MMC) integrated on a system-on-chip (SoC).
DM37x processors are software compatible with the OMAP35x generation of processors and pin-to-pin compatible with Sitara AM37x devices allowing for an easy product migration strategy to higher performing options. The DSP engine is programmable, allowing multiple general signal processing tasks such as digital filtering, math functions, and image processing and analysis.
Minimizing development costs and accelerating time to market, TI offers a complete software development kit (SDK) containing everything developers need to evaluate the device and begin development on the DM3730 evaluation module (EVM) in minutes. More information is available. Support for the Linux and Android operating systems is available today. Windows CE support will be available in 4Q10.