Maxim have today unveiled a highly integrated data converter that integrates all the external circuitry to make a high-precision voltage source for industrial test and measurement, factory automation, and process control. The new MAX5318 is a high-accuracy 18-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter and is available now.

Maxim Integrated Products will exhibit reference designs and demos for new DeepCover embedded security products at CARTES 2012 November 6 to 8 in Paris, France. DeepCover embedded security solutions cloak sensitive data under multiple layers of advanced physical security to provide the highest level of protection for your assets.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. introduces the MAX3711 laser driver/limiting amplifier combo chip with both automatic power control (APC) and extinction ratio control (ERC). The device is compatible with the DS1886, a small form factor pluggable (SFP) and passive optical network (PON) optical network unit (ONU) controller and diagnostic monitor. Together, this unique, highly integrated chipset simplifies optical module manufacturing and can reduc...

Maxim introduces Zeus, an important advance in integration and security protection for the smart grid. Zeus is a complete smart-meter system-on-a-chip that offers highly accurate metrology, multiple layers of security, and plenty of processing horsepower for today’s advanced communication protocols.

Maxim Integrated introduces two digital-input Class D power amplifiers that simplify designs, eliminate complicated programming, reduce noise, and hasten time to market. The MAX98355 (pulse-code modulation, PCM) and MAX98356 (pulse-density modulation, PDM) offer best-in-class clock jitter tolerance in Class D audio amplifiers and deliver superior audio quality.

Maxim Integrated Products announces the MAX78638, a turnkey solution for 3-phase motor energy measurement and diagnostics. Unlike previous bulky and expensive solutions that required moving the equipment from motor to motor, the highly integrated MAX78638 conveniently allows for constant and simultaneous monitoring of multiple pumps and motors.

Maxim has introduced the industry’s first fully integrated RTD-to-digital converter, a single-chip solution that replaces several discrete components to lower costs by up to 50%. The MAX31865 offers simple and accurate measurement of temperature, the most commonly measured physical quantity in the industrial space, making it ideal for use in measurement and process control applications. Until now, there was no single-chip resistance temperature...

Maxim Integrated Products announces a new vital signs monitoring shirt that enables medical professionals to perform frequent and less costly fitness monitoring that will lead to more effective preventive medical care.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc introduces two, high-speed serialization/deserialization (SerDes) chipsets that significantly lower the costs for automotive camera systems. Operating over standard coax cables, the MAX9273/MAX9272 (22 bits) and MAX9271/MAX9272 (16 bits) chipsets do not need the extra wires of an Ethernet setup to power a camera. With today’s high-end automotive camera systems often using multiple cameras and cables, this coax sol...

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc today introduced five high-integration products for the Automotive and Factory Automation markets that dramatically improve operating efficiencies and reduce costs. Maxim also announced it has collaborated with two firms to produce a reference design for a highly integrated telehealth fitness (“Fit”) shirt that monitors vital signs, lowers the cost of medical diagnosis, and represents a new era in preventive med...

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX17823, a fourth-generation high-voltage battery sensor for mission-critical automotive and industrial lithium-ion battery and fuel cell applications.

Maxim has revealed that it has established a Corporate Venture Group to invest in startup companies and innovative technologies. Through the new Corporate Venture Group, Maxim will make strategic investments to seed technologies aligning with the company’s focus areas, products, and initiatives, and facilitate partnering for Maxim’s business units with smaller companies.

Maxim have today declared the release of a 40G transmitter chipset that provides data centres with 4x the data throughput, at very low power, and in little more space than conventional single-channel alternatives. The new 4-channel 40GBASE-LR4 QSFP+ chipset comprises the MAX3948 DC-coupled laser driver and the DS4830 optical microcontroller.

The MAX16962 is a high-efficiency, synchronous step-down converter that operates with a 2.7V to 5.5V input voltage range and provides a 0.8V to 3.6V output voltage range. The wide input/output voltage range and the ability to provide up to 4A to load current make this device ideal for on-board point-of-load and post-regulation applications. The MAX16962 achieves -3.7%/+2.6% output error over load, line, and temperature ranges.

The MAX9272 compact deserializer is designed to interface with a GMSL serializer over 50 Ohm coax or 100 Ohm shielded twisted-pair (STP) cable. The device pairs with the MAX9271 or MAX9273 serializers.

Modern PLDs have a core supply rail that powers most of the device and consumes the highest power. With every new technology node, there is a new core supply voltage rail. Auxiliary voltage-supply rails power supporting circuits such as configuration logic, clock managers, and other housekeeping circuits.

System-level design considerations influence the choice of the power architecture. Power-system designs for simpler FPGA applications use single and multirail regulators that take a 5V/12V input and supply power to all FPGA rails, with built-in sequencing and minimal external components.

With highly demanding supply rail requirements, FPGAs can present design engineers with a huge challenge at the system level, but help is at hand. By Viral Vaidya.

Maxim announces the MAX36025, a tamper-reactive cryptographic-node controller with two hardware Advanced Encryption Standard engines for easy and more secure encryption. Utilities worldwide are rolling out smart grids to help manage energy use more effectively.

Maxim Integrated Products announces four, new digital optical sensors that advance analog integration with sensor fusion.