Single-Battery Charger and Fuel Gauge Reference Design for Arduino Platforms


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The MAXREFDES96# from Maxim Integrated Products is an Arduino Uno R3-compatible board that provides battery charge, boost, and data-logging capabilities. The board can be operated tethered to a power supply or computer to charge a battery and operate untethered to use the battery to power the Arduino board. Typical applications are expected to include charger/fuel […]

3V DACs used in ±10V applications


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Boosting DAC’s output to drive larger voltage tackled in this app note from MAXIM Integrated. Many modern systems have the majority of their electronics powered by 3.3V or lower, but must drive external loads with ±10V, a range that is still very common in industrial applications. There are digital to analog converters (DACs) available that […]

Highly Integrated USB-C Buck Charger from Maxim Reduces Size by 30 Percent


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Designers of portable Li-ion battery-powered electronics now have a simplified and more flexible way to add a USB Type-C (USB-C) charging system to their products with the MAX77860 3A switch-mode charger from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM). This USB-C buck charger provides the industry’s first integrated USB-C port controller and charger to eliminate the […]

Maxim Integrated MAXM17552 Compact Step-Down Power Module


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Maxim MAXM17552 Compact Step-Down Power Modules are part of the Himalaya series of voltage regulator ICs that offer cooler, smaller, and simpler power-supply solutions. The high efficiency, synchronous, step-down MAXM17552 DC-DC power module consists of an integrated controller, MOSFETs, compensation components, and inductor. The device operates over a wide input voltage range of 4V to […]

MAX1726x – Maxim Integrated fuel-gauge IC family


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Maxim Integrated has developed an algorithm to accurately estimate the battery state of charge and safely handle most batteries. Designers of lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery-powered mobile devices such as wearables, electric bicycles, power tools and internet of things (IoT) products can improve the end-user experience by extending run-time and delivering accurate battery state-of-charge (SOC) data with […]

Isolated 24V to 12V 10W Flyback Power Supply


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maximintegrated.com power supply experts have a reference design of a 24V to 12V flyback converter. Maxim’s power supply experts have designed and built a series of isolated, industrial power-supply reference designs. Each of these power supplies efficiently converts 24V into useful voltage rails at a variety of power levels. Every power rail is isolated with […]

MAX17055 – a 7μA operating current fuel gauge


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by Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com Maxim Integrated has posted details of a battery charge monitor IC for which it claims the lowest quiescent current available, at 7µA. The 1-cell Fuel Gauge with Maxim’s ModelGauge m5 EZ algorithm can eliminate battery characterization issues. MAX17055 – a 7μA operating current fuel gauge – [Link]

DS28EC20, A Serial 1-Wire 20Kb EEPROM


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The American manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, Maxim Integrated, has developed a new serial EEPROM memory that operates from single-contact 1-wire interface. The DS28EC20 is a 20480-bit, 1-Wire® EEPROM organized as 80 memory pages of 256 bits each. An additional page is set aside for control functions. Data is written to a 32-byte […]

A $20 Heart Rate Module For Health-Tech Projects


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Heart rate monitoring is a common procedure for most of health related projects. Therefore, producing sensors modules and circuit boards for such tasks will facilitate and push forward the development of new health-tech projects. Maxim Integrated, an analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits manufacturer, has developed a new module for measuring heart rate and pulse oximetry. […]

Driving 14-segment displays with the MAX6954


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App note from Maxim on using the MAX6954 to drive 14-segment monocolor LEDs, (PDF): This article is how-to guide, intended as a quick learning aid for engineers considering using the MAX6954 to drive 14-segment monocolor LEDs. The MAX6954 is a versatile display driver, capable of controlling a mix of discrete, 7-segment, 14-segment, and 16-segment LED displays […]