Samplify Systems releases second generation ultrasound beamforming development system
Along with new higher performance hardware, the SMK9130-A2 includes the latest version of Samplify’s Ultrasound Application Programming Interface – SUAPI 2.0. This API abstracts the underlying hardware in the system allowing OEMs to develop software quickly and "future-proof" their imaging software to next generation hardware components, thus preserving their development investment.
The API is a C++ middleware software layer that provides an easy-to use interface for the configuration and setup for various ultrasound scan types and for arbitrary probe definitions. Users can control all the parameters and functions of the hardware including the transmit beamformer, receive beamformer, power supplies, and various optional mid-processor functions, via high-level classes of scans, frames, sub-frames, and beams. The API is processor and operating system independent, running on ARM or x86 with Windows, Linux, or MacOS.
According to Danny Kreindler, director of ultrasound for Samplify Systems, "Samplify’s SMK9130 development system has proven itself as a highly configurable beamforming platform enabling OEMs to differentiate their offerings through software." Kreindler adds, "The known-good hardware, along with the Samplify ultrasound API components of the SMK9130 system, is being used by our customers as a software development platform. Additionally, OEMs can use the hardware as a complete sub-system in their production or develop in parallel their own production hardware to meet their specific requirements such as channel configuration, form factor, or gross margins. This can be done concurrently since the same beamformers, and analog-front-ends (AFEs) are used in the OEM’s hardware design along with the same API."
The SMK9130-A2 system is a complete 64-channel transmit/receive beamforming front-end using the company’s award winning AutoFocus™ technology and analog-front-end modules. The system, including all front-end electronics and high-voltage power supplies is enclosed in a single small chassis with a multiplexed probe interface on one end, and a USB2.0/x4 PCIe1.1 interface to a back-end CPU on the other.
For further information: www.samplify.com/ultrasound.
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