Small, low power healthcare sensors from Maxim Integrated enable new wearable health and fitness use cases at half the power, says the company.
ICs & Semiconductors
Real-time clock extends battery life for wearables
The battery life of space-constrained systems such as wearables, medical monitors, point-of-sale (PoS) equipment and portable terminals can be extended, says Maxim Integrated, using the MAX31341B.
Research indicates Pohoiki Beach chip for neural-inspired algortithms
An eight million neuron system, comprised of 64 Phokiki Beach chips, the codename for Loihi chips, is now available to the research community. The neuromorphic system will allow researchers to experiment with Lohi, Intel’s brain-inspired research chip, which applies the principles found in biological brains to computer architectures. Loihi enables users to process information up to 1,000 times faster and 10,000 times more efficiently than CPUs for specialised applications like sparse coding, graph search and constraint-satisfaction problems.
Switching regulator boasts lowest IQ for longer battery life
Claimed to have the industry’s lowest operating quiescent current (IQ), the TPS62840, at 60nA is around a third of the nearest competitive device, claims Texas Instruments. The synchronous step-down converter delivers light-load efficiency of 80 per cent at one microA load to extend the battery life of systems, or require fewer or smaller batteries to shrink power supply size and reduce cost.
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