Android and RTOS for Medical Applications

Overview

Hospitals have numerous devices from hand-held diagnostic tools to room-filling scanners. These products possess very demanding requirements and the implementation of software is key to their success. Operating system choice for medical devices is non-obvious since requirements are diverse - from managing hard real-time behavior to facilitating a rich user interface and maintaining communications. This session covers software requirements for multiple medical devices and how that impacts the choice of operating system. Using Android alongside a convention real-time operating system is investigated.

What You Will Learn

• The broad demands on software for medical systems
• How a real time OS may be a benefit and where Linux/Android play a part
• The benefits of multicore design

Who Should View

• Developers of software for medical applications
• Technical managers selecting operating systems for medical and similar applications
• Developers and managers interested in the wider deployment of Android and embedded multicore applications