Modern in-vitro diagnostic designs require accurate measurements to detect pH, partial pressure of carbon dioxide and partial pressure of oxygen in blood. These designs require highly efficient power-management solutions, accurate motor control for sample movements, an intuitive and responsive human machine interface, and a wired or wireless interface for data transfer and logging. Our comprehensive portfolio spans power-management, signal-chain and analog front-end products, as well as microcontrollers and processors, to support your medical design needs.

Why choose TI for in-vitro diagnostic applications?

Enable precise temperature control
Improve motor automation
Achieve low-power and precision sensing

Engineering advanced medical equipment designs

Precision temperature regulation of samples, light sources and system components

Thermoelectric cooling provides precise temperature regulation of samples, light sources and system components. For in-vitro diagnostics, thermoelectric cooling subsystems can have extremely diverse requirements – power ranges from 15 W to more than 100 W, high efficiency and small size. Our products can help you meet your specific requirements.


What is a smart AFE?

Learn more about our smart DAC and AFE products that have built-in non-volatile memory, which is factory programmable. They have programmable state machines, ADCs, DACs, PWM generators, and custom waveform generators.
Application note

Driving a Peltier Element (TEC): Efficiency and Aging (Rev. A)

The purpose of this application report is to determine the modules performance by driving it with our components, and seeing what performance can be achieved with reasonable power and equipment.

AFE539A4ACTIVE

10-bit 4-channel smart DAC with voltage output, ADC, EEPROM and PI loop for DC/DC based TEC control

LM5176ACTIVE

55V wide VIN synchronous 4-switch buck-boost controller

DRV8702-Q1ACTIVE

Automotive 47-V H-bridge smart gate driver

Brushed and stepper motor automation

In large laboratory equipment, motors move different reagents into samples and then move those samples throughout the system. Our highly integrated brushed and stepper motors enable the precise distribution of reagents and samples, with automatic tuning, accurate current sensing, stall detection, silent stepping and advanced diagnostics to achieve quiet, effortless motion.


Application note

Sensorless Stall Detection for Stepper Motors (Rev. A)

This application report highlights the advantages of the stall detection algorithm of the DRV8889-Q1 and provide examples of how the DRV8889-Q1 can detect stall reliably in a wide variety of end applications.

Introduction to motor drivers

TI Precision Labs is the electronics industry’s most comprehensive online classroom for analog engineers. This video provides an overview of TI Precision Labs and the motor drivers curriculum.
Application note

How to Reduce Audible Noise in Stepper Motors (Rev. A)

This application report explains how specific motor-driver features can reduce audible noise for a wide variety of stepper motor systems and applications.

DRV8711ACTIVE

52-V, bipolar stepper motor gate driver with 1/256 microstepping & stall detect

DRV8452ACTIVE

50-V, 5-A, dual H-bridge stepper motor driver with smart tune, stall detect and auto-torque

DRV8876ACTIVE

40-V, 3.5-A H-bridge motor driver with integrated current sensing & current-sense feedback

Liquid-level sensing for samples

Whether for proximal monitoring or use in control loops, in-vitro diagnostic devices now have stricter requirements in order to conform to both hospital and at-home use. These requirements include lower power, faster response times, integrated functionality to reduce size, and long lifetimes. Ultrasonic technology enables improvements in all of these areas, while also being noninvasive and low cost.


Ultrasonic sensing for respiratory equipment

This demo video shows a fully integrated system, featuring an ultrasonic analog-front-end with a low-power microcontroller, achieves fast, efficient and highly accurate flow/concentration measurements.
Application note

Oxygen Concentration Sensing

This document describes an oxygen concentration sensing solution based on TI’s ultrasonic technology.
Application note

High Resolution Ultrasonic Liquid Level Sensing (Rev. A)

This application report describes how ultrasound can be used with the MSP4030FR604x MCUs for enabling high resolution (20  µm) liquid level sensing measurements with low power (25 μA) and build a cost effective system.

MSP430FR5043ACTIVE

16-MHz MCU with 64 KB FRAM, 12-bit high speed 8-MSPS sigma-delta ADC and integrated sensor AFE

FDC1004ACTIVE

4-channel 16-bit capacitance-to-digital converter with active shield driver for EMC protection

TMP117ACTIVE

0.1°C digital temperature sensor, 48-bit EEPROM, PT100/PT1000 RTD replacement

Optical signal chain with low noise and accuracy

A precision optical signal chain converts photonic signals into analog signals and then digitalized by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). It prioritizes ultra-low noise, exceptional stability and high linearity across its components including photodetectors (PD), transimpedance amplifiers (TIA) and ADCs. 


Product overview

High Speed Amplifiers for In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) Analog Front End

Learn more about the key design considerations and amplifier product selections for your latest IVD system
Application note

High Speed ADCs and Amplifiers for Flow Cytometry Applications

Learn more about optical signal chain designs for flow cytometry applications

OPA2810ACTIVE

Dual channel, high performance, 27 V, 105 MHz, RRIO FET input op amp

OPA928ACTIVE

High-voltage femtoampere-input-bias precision e-trim™ operational amplifier with RRIO

ADS127L11ACTIVE

24-bit, 400-kSPS, delta-sigma ADC with easy-to-drive inputs and wideband or low-latency filters

Constant current and auto-power control solution for LED and laser module

Precision LED and laser driver solutions deliver stable and regulated current which is essential for optimal optoelectronic performance. They prioritize ultra-low noise, exceptional current accuracy and high efficiency across components.  This minimizes output fluctuation, drift and thermal stress, which is critical in applications demanding extreme reliability and precise light control.


Product overview

Smart DAC Product Selection Guide

Select our smart DAC products according to your design requirement

LED animation using smart AFE

View this video series to explore use-cases and benefits of using smart DACs and AFEs.

LMH13000 lidar overview

The Texas Instruments LMH13000 is a revolutionary high-speed laser driver that is capable of creating current pulses with rise and fall times on the order of 500 picoseconds.

DAC63204ACTIVE

12-bit 4-channel voltage/current output smart DAC with Hi-Z, EEPROM and waveform generator

LMH13000ACTIVE

Integrated high-speed voltage-controlled current-output laser driver for lidar and time of flight

TPS92640ACTIVE

Synchronous buck controllers for precision dimming LED Drive

Design tool

Create customized power supply and active filter circuits

WEBENCH® Circuit Designer creates customized power supply and active filter circuits based on your system requirements. The environment gives you end-to-end selection, design, and simulation capabilities that save you time during all phases of the analog design process.

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Driver or library

MSP430 MCUs Ultrasonic Sensing Design Center

Ultrasonic design center is a one stop resource to develop ultrasonic sensing applications using MSP430TM microcontrollers (MCUs) that includes tools, a graphical user interface (GUI), documentation, software libraries and application examples. Developers can quickly configure and customize (...)

Simulation tool

PSpice® for TI design and simulation tool

PSpice® for TI is a design and simulation environment that helps evaluate functionality of analog circuits. This full-featured, design and simulation suite uses an analog analysis engine from Cadence®. Available at no cost, PSpice for TI includes one of the largest model libraries in the (...)

Technical Resources

Circuit design

Closed-Loop TEC Control Circuit Using a Voltage-Output Smart AFE and DC/DC Conv.

Learn how to design a closed-loop system controlled by a smart AFE to control the temperature of a TEC by modifying the power output of a buck-boost converter.
Application note

Bidirectional TEC Driver Design for 40-W TEC

This application note introduces a flexible TEC driver strategy for voltage and current control. To realize the bidirectional current, the TEC is connected between the output and input of a DC/DC controller (such as the LM5176).
Application note

High Speed ADCs and Amplifiers for Flow Cytometry Applications

Flow cytometry is an advanced technology for characterizing suspensions of single cells or particles. This application note focuses on the analog signal chain electronics, and discusses the design considerations.