MediaTek announces MT2511 bio-sensing SoC for health and fitness devices

Health tracking is playing an important role in the evolution of wearables, and chipset makers, are now making dedicated chips for sensing medical parameters. Following the trend, MediaTek has announced the MT2511 chip, the chip makers first bio-sensing, analog front end chip (AFE) designed for health and fitness devices.

The MT2511 is capable of measuring bio-parameters such as electrocardiography (ECG) and photopletysmography (PPG), and measure heart beat intervals as well. It is equipped with 4KB SRAM, to optimize the system's overall power consumption for sleep heart rate monitoring. It supports SPI/I2C connectivity and has an integrated LED driver boost circuit for saving layout space.

The chip is also able to measure, blood pressure, pulse oximetry (SpO2 levels), electromyography (EMG) and electroencephalography (EEG). As it supports a high accuracy range greater than 100dB, it eliminated interference when collecting the heart's electric signals.

The MT2511 can be paired with, MediaTek's existing IOT and wearables platforms including MT2502, MT2523 and MT2601 to establish a medically accurate, bio-parameter collection sensor chipset. . The MediaTek MT2511 is expected to be mass manufactured by the end H1 2016.