SAMSUNG BIO-PROCESSOR
Semiconductor and one of the leading mobile manufacturer and Enterprise giant Samsung launched a new processor into the market. Most guess it to be an upgraded Exynos processor, but it isn't. It launched the whole new Bio-Processor. This Bio-processor is also an industry first.
The world is smarter at the moment and the devices we use are getting smarter and smaller. Few years ago, most of us didn't expect to measure our heart rate with our mobiles and watches. Though the idea was foreseen, but we didn't expect it in reality in such quick time. We also knew Samsung was ahead in this race of wearable technology and heart-rate monitoring sensors. It was the first one to incorporate a heart-rate monitoring sensor into a mobile with the Galaxy S5. Now, it is once again the torch-bearer to introduce the world to a Bio-Processor.
What Samsung Bio-Processor can do??
Samsung's Bio-Processor is actually a single solution to track your health. The devices which we now have can monitor your heart rate and calculate the calories burnt, but it cannot address problems beyond that.
Samsung’s Bio-Processor is the industry’s first all-in-one health solution chip. By integrating not only Analog Front Ends (AFE), but also microcontroller unit (MCU), power management integrated circuit (PMIC), digital signal processor (DSP), and eFlash memory, it is able to process the bio-signals it measures without the need of external processing parts. Even with its integrated design, the Bio-Processor is particularly innovative thanks to its incredibly small size. When compared to the total area of the discrete parts, the Bio-Processor is only about one-fourth of the total combined size, which is ideal for small wearable devices, offering a bounty of options when designing new devices.
While heart rate monitoring alone may have been compelling in the past, the ability to measure a variety of fitness data is expected in today’s wearable products. To meet such demands, Samsung has designed its Bio-Processor to integrate five AFEs including bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), photoplethysmograph (PPG), electrocardiogram (ECG), skin temperature, and galvanic skin response (GSR) into a single chip solution that measures body fat, and skeletal muscle mass, heart rate, heart rhythm, skin temperature and stress level.
Samsung even revealed that the Bio-Processors will be used in the devices by the first half of 2016. These Bio-Processors can be incorporated in smart patches, wearable devices etc.
With this, Samsung certainly opened the doors for improved wearable devices, that are debated for their limited advantages. Let's wait and see where the doors lead us to.
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