Date: 26/09/2012

Maxim introduces 5 new high-integration products and a ref. design for “Fit” shirt

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. has introduced five high-integration products for the factory automation and automotive markets. Maxim also has collaborated with two firms to produce a reference design for highly integrated telehealth fitness (“Fit”) shirt to monitor vital signs.

Factory automation/process control products:
1. The MAX78638 is a turnkey solution for 3-phase motor energy measurement and diagnostics. The fully integrated MAX78638 contains a microcontroller, compute engine, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and flexible and configurable sensor interfaces that permit for the measurement of current, voltage, speed, vibration, position, and temperature. The ADC enables a less than 0.5% energy calculation error compared to the 5% of a standard microprocessor solution.
2. The MAX31865 is a fully integrated RTD-to-digital converter, a single-chip solution that solves the common industrial design problem of digitizing a platinum RTD (such as a Pt100 or Pt1000) resistance. It provides simple and accurate measurement of temperature.

Automotive products:
1. The MAX17823 is a fourth-generation high-voltage battery sensor for mission-critical automotive and industrial lithium-ion battery and fuel cell applications. The MAX17823 provides a full suite of proprietary integrated ISO-26262 diagnostic features and maximizes electric and hybrid electric vehicle driving range as well as ensures battery and fuel cell safety and reliability. Maxim also released the MAX17830, a second-generation, high-voltage battery-management solution.
2. The MAX9273/MAX9272 (22 bits) and MAX9271/MAX9272 (16 bits) serial-data chipsets transmit over coax cables. The chipsets reduce power use, process signals faster, and improve electromagnetic emissions compared to standard solutions using Ethernet cables. Maxim’s new camera chipsets operate at high data rates (1.5Gbps). Using coax cables, the chipsets do not need to compress data and thus process images immediately—a crucial requirement for safety applications like sign recognition, collision avoidance, and night vision.

Telehealth products:
A new “Fit” shirt is announced by Maxim that enables medical professionals to execute frequent fitness monitoring that leads to more effective preventive medical care. The integrated shirt measures 3-lead ECG, body temperature, and motion. All diagnostic tools are packaged in a shirt that is comfortable to wear. The new Fit shirt integrates dry ECG sensor technology, complex signal processing technology, a temperature sensor, motion sensor, an ultra-low-power microcontroller, and wireless electronics.

These five new products are to be on display at Maxim’s booth at electronica 2012 in Munich, Germany on November 13–16. Maxim can be located in hall A6 at booth 163.
For more information: http://www.electronica.de/

Source: Maxim Integrated Products