UTAS Medical Equipment Ensures High Quality Patient Care

Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI) today announced that UTAS, a provider of medical devices for patient monitoring and diagnostics, has selected ADI Blackfin?processors to ensure highperformance digital signal processing operations and robust functionality across its full line of products -- highlighted by UTAS?most recent product introduction, the UM 300 portable patient monitor. Leveraging Blackfin's performance, low power consumption and flexible peripheral connectivity alongside complementary precision analog components also from ADI, UTAS achieved high-performance operations and a seamlessly connected signal chain in a cost effective, compact system package. "Medical professionals depend on UTAS" equipment to get a clear view of patient data, which enables them to make timely, more informed patient care decisions," said Valeriy Tkachenko, Technical Director, UTAS Company. UTAS' electrocardiographs, patient monitors, and pulse oximeters are distinguished by their measurement precision, reliability and affordability, and feature compact form factors and support for battery operations to ensure ease of portability. Utilized in hospitals, clinics, and emergency vehicles in more than twenty-five countries around the world, UTAS' systems are designed for use across a broad range of patient care applications, including surgery, cardiology, intensive care, bedside care, and patient transport. The UM 300 patient monitor leverages a dual-core Blackfin BF561 for centralized digital signal processing?real-time digital filtering, preprocessing and finish processing ?as well as to control the system's measurement virtualization capabilities and its video interface, which enables simultaneous viewing of up to eight real-time waveforms via a high-resolution color display. "Medical equipment developers employ some of the most stringent standards in the electronics industry when selecting the components that will underpin their systems," said Colin Duggan, product line director, GPDSP division, Analog Devices. "UTAS' new UM 300 patient monitor is just the latest example of how Analog Devices is delivering high performance, feature-rich signal processing technology to enable advanced medical systems designs." (Source: Marketwire)Femme