Technology for Life
Freescale is dedicated to helping people live healthier lives by driving innovation and providing high quality technical solutions. By delivering the optimal combination of vital technologies, enablement tools, expertise and partnerships, Freescale provides you with all you need to develop breakthrough medical products and enable life critical applications.

We drive innovations that power next-generation medical systems and applications. Our breakthrough thinking, engineering expertise, Medical Center of Excellence, Medical Advisory Board, FDA certification and active membership in the Continua Health Alliance demonstrates our commitment to healthcare. Our product longevity program assures a minimum 15 years of supply for a broad range of products in the medical segment.

Embedded Processing Expertise
Freescale is your essential source for health care applications. With expertise in embedded processing ranging from microcontrollers and microprocessors to digital signal processors, sensors, accelerometers and wireless connectivity, Freescale technologies are ideal for use in home portable medical applications, health and wellness, diagnostic and therapy and medical imaging devices.

Home Portable - Home portable medical devices share the common need for long battery life, robust data processing and a wired or wireless communication interface. Freescale microcontrollers offer an ideal combination of high processing capabilities and low power consumption. As a pioneer in the communications market, Freescale offers solutions for wired and wireless interfaces, including USB, IEEE® 802.15.4 and ZigBee® technology. Furthermore, Freescale micro-electromechanical system (MEMS)–based pressure and inertial sensors  as well as the tunneling magnetoresistive technology (TMR)-based magnetic sensor can be used to acquire physical parameters. User interfaces include touch screens, enabled by touch sensors, that have buttons and screens that can be sanitized quickly and easily.

Health and Wellness - The consumer population is more health conscious than ever before. Devices like portable heart rate and blood pressure monitors, integrated activity monitors for fitness and exercise, pulse oximeters and emerging systems are just the beginning of a revolution in healthcare devices. Health and wellness devices share a common need to incorporate sensing capability, low power and highly integrated processor technology with connectivity. Freescale microcontrollers combine optimum processing capabilities with low power consumption. We provide complete hardware and software solutions for wired and wireless interfaces, including USB with Personal Healthcare Device Class (PHDC), IEEE® 802.15.4 and ZigBee® health care technology. Freescale micro-electromechanical system (MEMS)-based pressure and inertial sensors and tunneling magnetoresistive technology (TMR)-based magnetic sensors can be used to acquire physical parameters along with touch screen user interfaces enabled by touch sensors.

Diagnostics and Therapy - Reliability, precision and product longevity are mandatory considerations for diagnostic and therapy devices. Freescale products are used in health-critical situations where physiological events need to be recognized quickly and addressed appropriately. Freescale offers a spectrum of processors spanning ColdFire™, Kinetis, i.MX and Power® Architecture 32-bit cores as well as 8-bit microcontroller solutions that are ideal for these applications in terms of performance and integration supported by up to 15 years assured supply.

Imaging - The complexities of medical imaging require extraordinary DSP processing, high performance analog and RF power. Modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), digital X-ray (2-D and 3-D) computed tomography (CT) or angiography scans push performance limits for advanced integrated I/O, rigorous data processing, powerful display capabilities and high levels of connectivity. These needs are addressed by Freescale's family built on Power Architecture® multicore processors, high performance DSPs such as the multicore MSC825x family for medical imaging applications and RF amplifiers. The Power Architecture family is designed for applications requiring a rich user interface, complex displays and network integration. Freescale's RF power amplifiers provide the high output power required to achieve the desired frequency of resonance, or Larmour frequency. These components are engineered to assist medical imaging equipment manufacturers in meeting their processing and performance needs, to control a rich user interface display and to allow connectivity through various standard protocols.

Freescale is committed to the medical device marketplace. We have assembled the technical infrastructure to provide the highest level of support in the IC industry. We provide medical reference designs and application notes to reduce time spent on product development and speed time to market. The company provides products for FDA Class III applications. Current FDA Class III examples for which we provide solutions include, wireless interface for cardiac implantable devices, external defibrillator and life vest with built-in defibrillator.