Medical Devices
Medical devices help us live longer, better lives, but creating the software that empowers them presents some unique challenges to developers. Whether your product is to be deployed in a hospital or sold in a drug store for use at home, system failures are simply not an option when a person's health is at stake. Your choice of software development platform hugely impacts your ability not only to get medical devices to market, but to do so profitably.
Resources
Connecting Medical Devices Securely over Wi-Fi in Hospitals
May 22, 2013 • OnlineEvent: In this webinar, Mentor Embedded, Freescale and Silex Technology America will discuss strategies for building multimedia applications with the power, performance and integration required for hospital medical... View Event
Nucleus Real Time OS
Nucleus Real Time OS is an embedded real time operating system which includes source code – this is essential for confidence in long term support. Nucleus Real Time OS (RTOS) provides services including networking, UI, USB and security protocols.
Inflexion UI
Inflexion UI provides a powerful tool and runtime which allows our customers creating medical devices to create their innovative & intuitive UIs in days. Customers can benefit from some of the recent advances being achieved in user interfaces through the use of Inflexion UI.
Benefits
Reduced certification costs
When you build your Nucleus-based application, only those lines of code which are actually used get compiled into the final image. By ensuring code size is kept to a minimum, Nucleus OS can significantly reduce your certification costs, since certification effort is directly proportional to the lines of code being tested. And the certification process itself is simplified because source code is provided as standard for all Nucleus OS products.
A future proof solution that scales to meet your needs
While you may not need all of the capabilities of Nucleus OS today, you can be sure that as your products evolve, you will be able to draw upon a comprehensive range of integrated core services to accommodate each new requirement while maximizing the return on your existing software investment.
HIPAA compliant and IPv6 Ready™ for secure network-enabled medical applications
Nucleus OS is known for its secure, comprehensive and robust networking credentials. Wired or wireless, portable or not, Nucleus Networking Services (including 802.11 WiFi) offer everything you need to keep medical information private and inaccessible to prying eyes.
Proven in over 90 FDA Class II and Class III devices
Nucleus OS has been deployed in over 90 FDA Class II and Class III certified products, and has been selected as the software platform of choice by a wide range of medical device manufacturers including Bayer, Aspect Medical, Metran America, Analogic, ZOLL Medical Corporation, Plexar and many others.
Deliver more usable products in less time
Usability is essential for any product whose incorrect use could ultimately cost lives. Inflexion UI incorporates an advanced graphical user interface solution designed specifically with usability in mind. New user interfaces can be created, tested and refined in minutes for Nucleus, Linux, and Android. (or indeed other operating systems) Inflexion has a PC tool allowing the UIs to be rapidly created using a drag & drop approach.
Products Utilized
Nucleus Real Time OS
- Small footprint OS, fully functional at 12 K
- Source code provided free to reduce regulatory compliance burdens
- Deployed in billions of devices worldwide
HIPPA Compliant: Nucleus Networking
- Healthcare IT department-compliant connectivity
- TCP/UDP/IP networking stack
- Support for IPv6
- 802.11a/b/g
- Security: SSL, 802.11i
Nucleus USB
- USB 2.0 (host and function) and hi-speed OTG certified to meet the USB 2.0 specification
- Comprehensive class driver support
- Mass Storage, Printer, Still Image, Communication, Video, Audio, and more
Nucleus Kernel Extensions
- MMU for memory protection and security
- DDL for dynamically adding features
- POSIX support
Healthcare Compliant: Nucleus Storage & Database
- Healthcare IT department compliant file systems
- ISO9660, FAT, and FLASH support
- IDE, SD, PCMCIA, CompactFlash, SATA, USB
- Optimized for multitasking systems
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