Developers of heart rate and blood oxygen (SpO2) monitors can now accelerate their efforts using the ultra-small MAXREFDES117# reference design from Maxim Integrated Products. This optical heart-rate module reference design incorporates red and infrared LEDs, a sensor, power subsystem, and logic level translation. Measuring 13mm x 13mm, this tiny, low-power board can be placed on a finger or earlobe to accurately detect heart rate and SpO2 v...

Manufacturers of mPOS terminals, ATM keyboards, EMV card readers, contact/contactless pin pads, and other mobile payment devices can now save PCB space and reduce the BOM, while bringing their products to market faster with the MAX32560 DeepCover secure microcontroller from Maxim Integrated Products. Designers of mobile payment devices currently have to use multiple external ICs for memory expansion, contactless interface and amplifier, ISO7...

Designers can now easily develop high-performance fitness and medical wearable devices with enhanced functionality using the MAX32630 and MAX32631 ARM Cortex-M4F microcontrollers from Maxim Integrated Products. With the fast-growing market for personal wellness and medical wearable applications, new complex demands are being placed on the internal electronic components of devices.

Maxim Integrated Products, has announced a distribution agreement with EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company and the semiconductor distribution. EBV will distribute Maxim’s product portfolio in the EMEA region, starting January 2017.

IO-link is a relatively new standard for industrial sensors, that is showing a phenomenal growth trajectory. From about 250,000 installed IO-Link sensors in 2009, it is now estimated that over three million IO-Link sensors are now deployed. Suhel Dhanani, Principal MTS, Industrial Strategy, Maxim Integrated explains.

Designers of health, wellness and fitness applications can quickly and easily validate next-gen solutions with the small hSensor Platform from Maxim Integrated Products. Creating a custom board with sensors can be complex, as designers must first build custom hardware and firmware to validate their concepts and then build prototypes before starting any field trials. 

Watch as a web server authenticates or rejects a water filter sensor node and wifi enabled controller. This unique demonstration of MAXREFDES143 shows how authentication and data integrity can easily be added to an IoT ecosystem.

Developers of industrial, medical, and IoT products now have an added level of IP and device integrity protection with the DS28C36 DeepCover secure authenticator from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. With rampant product counterfeiting, unsafe reuse of medical accessories, and vulnerable network connected sensor nodes, companies recognise the need to integrate strong defenses into their products and systems.

Significantly increase manufacturing productivity with the Pocket IO programmable logic controller (PLC) development platform from Maxim Integrated Products. The platform provides customers with the ability to achieve the smallest form factor and highest power efficiency for next-generation PLC designs. Lost productivity is a common concern for Industry 4.0 designers challenged with keeping a manufacturing line running 24 hours a day, 7 days...

Real-time intelligence increases productivity on the factory floor and Maxim Integrated has developed a compact PLC development platform. It says that the PLC development platform can reduce small form factor and high density and efficiency for next-generation PLC designs.  

Allowing PV panels to harvest significantly more energy, Maxim Integrated Products has announced new cell-string optimiser technology which simplifies design complexity for solar installation projects.

Maxim Integrated Products has announced the MAXREFDES143# embedded security reference design to address the many issues related to system security in IIoT installations. The reference design provides protection against counterfeit sensor data, guaranteeing its authenticity and integrity along the entire data chain, from transducer to the cloud.

The newest security key pad and smart card readers -E200NP and E200CP - from XAC Automation, which incorporate the MAX32550 DeepCover secure microcontroller from Maxim Integrated Products, have successfully passed the stringent PCI-PTS 4.1 certification requirements. For PCI-PTS 4.1 certification, products must pass increased levels of differential power analysis and simple power analysis (DPA/SPA) attack testing. 

System architects and designers of power subsystems can learn about important considerations for efficiency, heat dissipation, size, protection, and isolation in a full-day seminar hosted by Maxim Integrated Products and co-sponsored by Maxim’s distribution partner Avnet Silica. With wide input voltages so often used in industrial, medical, communications, and other end applications, meeting power system performance and size goals is c...

The MAXREFDES99# 16x16 display reference design from Maxim Integrated Products provides hobbyists and makers with greater flexibility and more options when developing LED signs. LEDs continue to dramatically transform signage and lighting. However, often LED displays today are 8x8 and cannot communicate many international alpha-numeric characters.

Monitoring cold chain and other temperature sensitive products or processes for longer duration sessions is now possible with the DS1925 iButton data logger from Maxim Integrated Products. Temperature sensitive products and processes can be damaged when exposed to temperatures that are too high or too low.

Designers can save space and achieve more flexible designs with the latest two-channel, bi-directional digital isolators from Maxim Integrated Products. The MAX14933 and MAX14937 transfer digital signals between circuits in both directions and provide complete galvanic isolation between two power domains, all while using fewer components to save board space.

Easing and securing the implementation of pack-side battery gauges in portable devices, the ModelGauge m5 portfolio has been announced by Maxim Integrated Products. The MAX17201/MAX17205 and MAX17211/MAX17215 fuel gauges are claimed by the manufacturer to be the industry’s first to integrate SHA-256 for secure authentication to prevent battery clones.

Design engineers can now rapidly evaluate and deploy HMI devices using the MAXREFDES82# smart force sensor reference design from Maxim Integrated Products. Typical weigh scales provide one dimension of information, downward force. The MAXREFDES82# reference design provides both downward force and centre of mass, by collecting responses from four load cells using the MAX11254, a 24-bit, 6-channel ADC.

Designers can now lower the power, cost and size of the RFFE with the SC2200 dual-channel RFPAL (RF Power Amplifier Lineariser) from Maxim Integrated Products. The lineariser enables power amplifiers to consume up to 70% less power compared to operation in back-off. In addition, it reduces the BOM cost by up to 50% and is up to eight times smaller than other Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) solutions on the market.