August 15, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
Industry 4.0 is no longer a concept; it’s been happening, and it probably has been happening for longer than you realize. According to Suhel Dhanani, the questions now are, how can we best implement the infrastructure for Industry 4.0 and what are the technology drivers?
August 14, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
Every summer, the vibe at Maxim’s San Jose headquarters gets a fresh injection of energy as summer interns fill the campus with their enthusiasm, ideas, and perspectives. In August, 39 interns showcased their work during the annual Intern Symposium. Here’s a look at how a handful of them contributed to the company and also to their own portfolios.
August 13, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
Walkways toward many of America’s baseball stadiums are lined with merchants hawking team caps, T-shirts, and other “branded” gear. They’re available for a fraction of the cost that you’d pay for similar merchandise inside the gates. And, at least at quick glance, you can’t really tell they’re not authentic. Counterfeit products are everywhere and, in cases like sports apparel, they’re not particularly harmful to the buyers. But when the cloned product is something like a medical or industrial sensor, then there are dangerous risks to patient safety or factory operations.
August 8, 2019
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By: Kyle Johnson Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
Time is the driver of all actions in the technology industry. Technology today relies on extremely accurate measurements of time by real-time clocks (RTCs) to perform certain actions, whether this action is something as complicated as sending communication signals or as simple as telling the date and time on a phone or computer.
August 6, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1 in 10 medical products in developing countries is either substandard in quality or falsified and up to 8% of medical products in the supply chain is counterfeit. In 2017, the World Customs Organization, Interpol, and law enforcement from more than 123 countries seized more than $50 million in counterfeit medicines and medical devices. These are scary statistics for patients and should be just as sobering for manufacturers of medical disposables.
August 1, 2019
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By: Binay Bajaj Director; Core Products Group; Maxim Integrated |
Sure, a real-time clock (RTC) is considered a commodity product. But not all RTCs are made the same. In fact, you don’t even have to use a discrete RTC in your design. After all, microcontrollers have the function built in. But I’d like to argue that using a discrete RTC can actually be more beneficial in terms of your overall solution size and power management efficiency, especially if you are developing space-constrained applications like wearables.
July 30, 2019
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By: Michael Jackson Principal Writer, Maxim Integrated |
When you hear about Industry 4.0, do you envision robots busy at work inside factories, picking and packing products in a warehouse or manufacturing cars? Indeed, Industry 4.0 defines the modern factory environment. It consists of dozens of networked controllers continuously monitoring inputs from hundreds or even thousands of sensors such as switches and level detectors. Simultaneously, signals are sent to a similar number of output devices such as valves, solenoids, or motor drives. Electronic marshalling has simplified the process of connecting this expanding set of field wiring back to the controller. However, problems can still occur. Let’s have a look at how these can happen and show you a quick and easy way to resolve the issues if they occur.
July 25, 2019
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By: Greg Mow Business Manager, Maxim Integrated |
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and Michael Tuason Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Mobile Solutions Business Unit, Maxim Integrated |
As you’re getting ready for work, you start streaming your favorite tunes from your smartphone. You brush your teeth, get dressed, and let the music transport you to the concert venue where you last saw this band play. The sound is so rich, so loud that you almost forget it’s coming from your phone.
July 23, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
$9 trillion—that’s the price tag of healthcare costs worldwide, much of it stemming from the western world and most of it consumed in the U.S. And this figure continues to grow at 2x to 3x the rate of inflation. How can we better control these staggering costs?
July 17, 2019
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By: Frank Dowling Director, Business Management, Industrial & Healthcare Business Unit, Maxim Integrated |
Is your optical-sensing wearable saving as much power as it can as it provides continuous, real-time monitoring under varying measurement conditions? You’ve probably designed your device to accommodate different use cases. Chances are, you’ve also built into your wearable the ability to tune the current up and down to minimize current consumption as the device does its work. But imagine how much more power you could be saving if you had a method to also dynamically adjust the voltage level at the same time.
July 16, 2019
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By: Andrew Baker Managing Director, Industrial & Healthcare Business Unit, Maxim Integrated |
Globally, spending on healthcare is on track to top US$10 trillion by 2022—a huge economic impact. Being on the healthcare team of a technology company, my Maxim colleagues and I are always looking at ways to mitigate this cost. A lot of it starts by making advancements in wellness programs and getting people off the couch. This is where wearables can help.
July 11, 2019
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By: Michael Jackson Principal Writer, Maxim Integrated |
So, you’ve designed a smart lock that includes an authenticator. Great – that means an intruder cannot swap the lock for a fake one without the owner being aware of it and the lock can only be opened by the owner. Right? Hmmm…are you certain? Just to be on the safe side, let me answer some of your salient questions about this.
July 9, 2019
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By: Jim Harrison Guest Blogger, Lincoln Technology Communications |
Who needs to plug in? From smartphones to music players to health and fitness wearables, portable, battery-operated devices are everywhere. Cameras, tablet computers, earphones, hearing aids, smart watches, fitness monitors, hand tools and meters, and GPS trackers all demand an ingenious plan for power. More devices are joining this category every day.
July 3, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
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July 2, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
Do you start getting twitchy at the 30% mark? 15%? Or do you squeeze as much use as you can from your smartphone, waiting until it has just 5% battery life before scrambling for a place to plug in? Like the range anxiety experienced by electric vehicle drivers, low-battery anxiety is a legit feeling among mobile device users. There’s actually a name for this affliction: nomophobia, the fear of being separated from your smartphone, perhaps because of a signal issue or a lack of battery power.
June 27, 2019
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By: Michael Jackson Principal Writer, Maxim Integrated |
Just as you were about to bring your latest chest-worn offering to the health and fitness wearables market, you realize that customers are increasingly seeking electrocardiogram (ECG) functionality on top of everything else. This is going to set you back months, while you go back and try to design in this feature, right? Wrong! Really? How can this be possible, you ask yourself? Well, let’s look at what you really need to make this happen and you might just be surprised that it can all be developed in a much more straightforward manner than you thought.
June 25, 2019
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By: Reno Rossetti Principal Writer, Maxim Integrated |
Inside today’s increasingly automated and electrically harsh industrial environments, you’ll find sensors everywhere. They’re getting more sophisticated, but also smaller. Their complexity requires on-board switching regulators to deliver power more efficiently for minimal heat generation. Yet, there lies the challenge: how do you deliver low-voltage power to these tiny sensors safely while they operate in high-voltage industrial environments? And how do you do so while keeping the solution size small and maximizing efficiency?
June 20, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
When your business is just getting off the ground, its success depends on you and your team getting your cool, new product to market quickly. You don’t want to spend too many cycles iterating or getting bogged down trying to find answers to technical questions.
June 18, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
Wearable healthcare technologies are giving us real-time insights into our well-being, from heart rate and blood-oxygen levels to body temperature, sleep patterns, and much more. With this data, we can more closely monitor chronic conditions, be more proactive about preventive care, and perhaps even detect issues of concern. For design engineers, the push is on to utilize sensors, power-management ICs, and other technologies to uncover new use cases and create new types of devices. It’s all about delivering continuous monitoring of various health parameters to enable a healthier world.
June 13, 2019
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By: Michael Jackson Principal Writer, Maxim Integrated |
USB is a four-wire interface used to connect an upstream host/charger to a downstream device. VBUS (+5 VDC) and GND (0V) are the power pins, while D+ and D- are used for either differential or single-ended data transfer. The data is organized into data frames or packets. Each frame can contain bits for clock synchronization, data type identifier, device address, data payload, and an end-of-packet sequence. Data transfer takes place at speeds of either 1.5Mbps (low speed), 12Mbps (full speed), or 480Mbps (high speed) using a range of connectors with different form factors. Types A, B, mini-B, and micro-B are the most common connector types.
June 11, 2019
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By: Robert Gee Executive Business Manager, Core Product Group, Maxim Integrated |
In the semiconductor testing world, managing cost remains one of the toughest challenges, since automated test equipment (ATE) represents a major capital expenditure. One way to reduce the cost per wafer—and, therefore, gain a competitive advantage? Increase throughput.
June 06, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
CPUs, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), digital signal processors (DSPs), and other processors are now handling heavy computational loads in portable electronic devices. Consumers increasingly expect their small, battery-powered electronic devices to provide long run-times between charges. This blog post highlights how dynamic power management capabilities in buck, or step-down, converters—key components of power supplies—can generate greater energy efficiency for entire systems that are powered by 1-, 2-, and 3-cell lithium-ion batteries.
June 04, 2019
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By: Bonnie Baker Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
As vehicle emissions standards become more strict, automotive design engineers are striving to achieve the proper fuel-oxygen ratio in their designs. This ratio determines the performance and the exhaust toxicity of a vehicle, so it’s critical for engineers to not only strike the right balance but also to maintain it over time.
May 30, 2019
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By: Kristopher Ardis Executive Director, Micros, Software & Security Business Unit, Maxim Integrated |
Reliable, cost-effective ICs with integrated physically unclonable function (PUF) technology have only recently become available. In this blog post, I’ll demystify PUF technology to help you better understand how and why it could benefit your design.
May 28, 2019
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By: Christine Young Blogger, Maxim Integrated |
You rely on datasheets for a good sense of how the IC will perform, but when it’s time for more of a “how to” lesson, that’s when reference designs come in handy. Maxim’s Reference Design Center features design implementations spanning single parts to subsystems and full system designs. Each of these designs was built and tested by our engineers.
May 21, 2019
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By: Anthony T. Huynh Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Applications, Industrial Power, Maxim Integrated |
From industrial internet of things (IIoT) to network infrastructure equipment, next-gen electronic systems are being infused with new intelligence that requires more power in ever-shrinking spaces without impacting the thermal budget. As a result, conventional solutions are not a good fit. Yet, given time-to-market pressures, designers don’t have loads of time to design the power supply, and they must wrestle with limited space to dissipate the heat while also meeting shock, vibration, and EMI requirements.
May 16, 2019
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By: Chintan Parikh Executive Business Manager, Automotive, Maxim Integrated |
When cameras are expected to be the eyes on the road in today’s vehicles, they must perform reliably and efficiently. They are, after all, critical components in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Blind-spot monitoring, parking assistance, driver monitoring, and front-view cameras are just some of the applications and systems that rely on high-resolution automotive cameras. According to Strategy Analytics, automotive cameras are anticipated to experience brisk growth in the coming years, with side-mounted cameras projected to have a CAGR of 16% through 2025.
May 14, 2019
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By: Jim Harrison Guest Blogger, Lincoln Technology Communications |
Will 5G wireless technology revolutionize everyone’s lives like “1G” did? Think of the changes cellphone usage has begotten us in just 20 years. Incredible. But, a number of people are convinced that 5G cellular will cause huge health problems.
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