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WP378 - Xilinx FPGAs in Portable Ultrasound Systems

Ultrasound machine leverages Virtex FPGA for high-performance DSP functionality.

ProSound Alpha10 uses a technology called Extended Pure Harmonic Detection. This digital pure-beam imaging platform incorporates acoustic technology to improve the clarity of the ultrasound beam formation and signal processing.

Aloka designed high performance Xilinx FPGAs into the system to enable real-time display for high-definition images, incorporate sophisticated features and speed development time. Aloka was able to ramp to volume production just 12 weeks after design freeze, avoiding costly system re-qualifications necessary with ASICs.

We’re now in our 14th year of using Xilinx FPGAs in our products, and we look forward to future innovations from Xilinx as they push for even higher system integrations.

- Toshiaki Fujiki, Assistant General Manager of R&D, Medical System Engineering Department, Aloka

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Read the full story, Seeing the Unseen: Aloka's ProSound Alpha10, in the Xcell Journal, 2010 Customer Innovation Issue

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Ultrasound machine leverages Virtex FPGA for high-performance DSP functionality.

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