Maxim's ultra-small hSensor platform supports fast, easy wearable product design

Support for the full ARM® mbedTM development platform, saving up to 6 months of design time

Beijing, China – November 1, 2016 – Maxim has launched an ultra-small hSensor platform to help quickly and easily validate next-generation solutions for health, wellness and high-end fitness wearables.

Building a custom board with sensors is a very complicated task because engineers must first build custom hardware and firmware to validate the design principles and build prototypes before field trials. As a result, engineers often spend a lot of time evaluating sensors and existing solutions. Maxim's hSensor platform integrates all hardware modules on a single PCB and implements easy-to-use hardware functions through the ARM mbed Hardware Development Kit (HDK), reducing prototyping time by three to six months.

Maxim's ultra-small hSensor platform supports fast, easy wearable product design

The hSensor platform, the MAXREFDES100# reference design, includes the hSensor board, complete driver firmware, debug board, and graphical user interface (GUI). Using the firmware source code provided on the Maxim website, the platform allows designers to load algorithms from different cases to suit their specific application. Customers can download firmware optimized designs, accelerate evaluations, and dramatically reduce time to market. The hSensor platform is the only complete and ideal development platform for health, wellness and high-end fitness wearable applications on the market today, such as chest straps, electrocardiographs, wristband devices, thermometers, disposable temperature stickers, oximetry, smart weighing instruments. , biometrics, etc. For example, engineers can design a wearable patch from a single CR2032 battery to continuously record an electrocardiogram with twice the lifetime of the current solution—saving more than 50% of the power.

The hSensor platform includes the following products:

· MAX30003: Ultra-low-power, single-channel integrated bioelectromotive analog front end

· MAX30101: High sensitivity pulse oximeter and heart rate sensor

· MAX30205: the industry's only clinical temperature sensor

· MAX32620: Ultra-low-power ARM® Cortex®-M4F microcontroller for wearable device optimization

· MAX14720: Industry's lowest quiescent current management IC (PMIC)

· Additional products: inertial sensors (3-axis accelerometer, 6-axis accelerometer / gyroscope), atmospheric pressure sensor, flash memory and low-power Bluetooth wireless communication

Main advantage

· Quickly verify design principles: Full-featured hardware and firmware for up to 6 months of design time.

· Fast time to market: Designed on top of existing hardware and firmware to quickly complete hardware design.

· Support ARM mbed: Efficient evaluation, rapid prototyping, high integration of mbed environments, no need to maintain software tools, and a wide range of open source software libraries.

· Complete solution: The compact, ultra-small (25.4mm x 30.5mm) one-stop solution offers all the features users need. No need to access multiple resources, a single button battery power, allowing data to be monitored via Bluetooth low energy, stored in flash memory or read via USB.

Evaluation

· "With the introduction of the MaximhSensor platform, we can make the very complex measurement process simple and smooth," said ToBa's chief scientific officer MattBanet. "It provides an easy-to-use development kit that can be successfully applied to our own. In the hardware platform."

· “Maxim is committed to the wearables market, and the hSensor platform is a strong testament,” said Andrew Baker, executive director of industrial and healthcare products at Maxim Integrated. “As new applications continue to emerge, we will expand the platform further. To support specific application scenarios."

· “The process of designers making custom boards from scratch is very cumbersome, and Maxim’s new platform frees them from them,” said Susie Inouye, director of research and development at Databeans. “This type of technology is the key to driving cost reductions. Factors will attract more consumers, especially for the fitness app market where demand is still subject to price."

MAXREFDES100#Supply and Price Information

· The MAXREFDES100# reference design is priced at $150 and is available for purchase through Maxim's official website and franchisees, as well as free online hardware and firmware design files.

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