Maxim Integrated Products is one of the world leaders in the production and development of integrated circuits for analog and mixed signal processing. The name of the company's founder is Jack Gifford. This man began his career in the early 60s of the last century. He was a developer of Fairchild and participated in the creation of AMD and Intersil. From the very beginning of its activities to this day, the ownership form introduced by Jack Gifford has been maintained: 75% of the company's shares belong to its employees.

Chronology of the most important events in history:
1985 – release of our own integrated microcircuit max 600, awarded with numerous awards;
1987 – first profitable year;
1993 – achieving sales volume of 100 million dollars;
2000 – production of integrated systems on SoCs chips.
2005 – Maxim is included in the 1000 most successful companies in the world;
2006 - Jack Gifford leaves the post of CEO for health reasons;
2010 – production of analog microcircuits on a 300 mm board.

The company's headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The post of CEO is occupied by Tunç Doluca. The company employs 9,300 employees. Maxim's sales in 2011 were $2.5 billion and its net profit was $935 million. The company has 24 sales offices, 40 in-house manufacturing laboratories and 11 chip manufacturing plants.

Products

Maxim's product portfolio includes 5,000 different types of microcircuits, 4/5 of them are our own patented developments. Priority is not assigned to any one direction. The company strives to maintain leadership positions in both analog and mixed market segments.

1. Interface chips
- the RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485 families are well known to domestic developers. Isolated serial ICs are manufactured with built-in ESD ESD protection. Among the new developments are interfaces with low power supply levels - up to 1.8V.
- drivers for the Controller Area Network serial bus interface. These devices provide data exchange between I/O units and sensors. Controller Area Network - the protocol allows you to find the trunks of several master devices and ensures real-time data transfer. This type interfaces are widely used in automotive electronics.
- UART interfaces compatible with SPI/Microwire;
- USB – On-The-Go direct data exchange controllers;
- High-speed LVDS, ECL and PECL interfaces

2. ADC - microcircuits
- Dual Slope double integration converters with high resolution;
- SD converters with a maximum sampling frequency of up to 4800 ksps;
- ADC sub-bit balancing;
- Pipeline ADC;
- flash converters of a very simple architecture with the highest power consumption in the line.

3. Digital to analog converters
The range of these devices today exceeds 130 items, so let’s look at the most modern lines.
- DAC with a capacity of no more than 10 bits. Main characteristics:
1. Application of serial input interface
2. Use of one low-voltage power supply with a minimum voltage of 2.7 V (in the MAX552x family - 1.8 V).
3. Availability of two or four channels. At the same time, single-channel DACs remain in the company’s product range.
4. Built-in voltage reference.
- High resolution DAC (more than 10 bits). These chips use only a serial interface. To control several devices via one channel, switching on the daisy chain principle is used. One of the recent developments is the MAX5661 DAC converter for industrial applications.

4. Analog filters

5. Digital potentiometers– analogues of mechanical resistors with variable resistance. The housing of one microcircuit can accommodate up to 6 potentiometers.

6. Power management chips
These products are used in portable devices and include:
- microcircuits for pulse sources nutrition, lowering and increasing;
- microcircuits for managing batteries and batteries;
- MOSFET drivers.

7. Non-volatile RAM with built-in lithium power supplies, made using CMOS technology.

8. Chips for wireless transmission Wireless, RF and GPS data
Wireless data transmission solutions are a relatively new line of business for Maxim. The products are used for GPS devices, analog and digital tuners, in low noise amplifiers.

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General mission of the company

Maxim's overall goal is to continually develop new analogue technical solutions, which enhance the microprocessor systems of its customers around the world. The company gradually increased the assets of its shareholders due to a competent pricing policy, correctly chosen goals, by reducing the time to market with ready-made solutions and increasing technical performance. Contributing to our overall success is Dallas Semiconductor Corporation, which is wholly owned by Maxim and integrates its mixed-signal and specialty semiconductor products, development, manufacturing and markets.

Field of activity

Maxim Integrated Products was founded in 1983, 1 year earlier than Dallas Semiconductor, and today is a world leader in the design, development and production of integrated circuits for working with analog and mixed signals. Maxim circuits “connect” the real world to the digital world by monitoring, measuring, amplifying, and converting real-world signals such as temperature, pressure, or sound into digital signals needed for computer processing.

The company uses customer problems as a starting point when developing products with a wide range of applications. Own original circuit solutions integrate key functions meeting customer requirements and application. The products are manufactured using CMOS technology and are able to compete and outpace the current trend in the industry to reduce power consumption. The company invests in creating a wide range of electronic components using advanced technologies, thereby attracting various customers and entering various markets.

Markets served include broadband telecommunications systems, cordless handsets, cellular base stations, secure internet communications, servers, data management, test and medical instrumentation, home and commercial appliances, industrial equipment and network control systems.

Dallas Semiconductor's factories produce CMOS chips on 6-inch chips with geometries up to 0.35 microns. The company will convert its current 6-inch production to 8-inch production, with plans to complete it in 2002. Since 1999, it has become possible to test the impact strength of microcircuit packages during production.

Products and Applications

The products manufactured include data converters, interface circuits, microprocessor supervisors, operational amplifiers, power supplies, multiplexers, switches, chargers, battery management circuits, RF circuits for wireless communications, fiber optic transceivers and voltage references.

Maxim alone produces more than 3,500 analog integrated circuits, more than any other company in the world, with more than 3,000 of its products being proprietary. Plus, Dallas Semiconductor has developed more than 400 core products and more than 2,000 product iterations that have been shipped to more than 15,000 customers worldwide.

The company's products are used in a wide range of microprocessor-based electronic equipment, incl. personal computers and peripherals, process control, instrumentation, test equipment, portable devices, wireless and fiber optic communications systems, and video displays.

Products for communication systems: T1/E1 interface chips (framers, transceivers, communication error testers and timing adapters), T3/E3 broadband devices (interfaces, framers and multiplexers), as well as HDLC controllers that provide high density and performance for ducted and non-channeled high speed transmission data, serving a wide range of markets.

1-Wire® and Networking: 1-Wire® devices are lower cost and easier to design, with a communications protocol that provides control, signaling, and power over a single-wire connection. A large number of identification devices, sensors, control and memory devices are available in conventional integrated circuit packages, as well as in subminiature CSP and mechanically protected armored iButtons®.

Mixed Signals: The core products on which the company was built and the early development problems were solved include non-volatile RAM, real-time clocks, CPU supervisors, solid-state timers, digital potentiometers, temperature sensors, SCSI terminators, temperature-controlled crystal oscillators control and information recorders. Business information

As of June 29, 2002, the company's net annual income was $1.025 billion. The company has a staff of 6,000 employees. The company's head office is located in Sunnyvale, California, with representative offices in San Jose (California), Dallas (Texas); Beaverton (Oregon), Cavite (Philippines), Samut Prakam (Thailand) and other places around the globe..

Dallas Semiconductor is located in Dallas, Texas, near the Telecom Corridor. Isolated from city noise, the subdivision's 18-building campus on 50 acres borders directly on the high-density Addison restaurant district.

Maxim Integrated is one of the most famous and successful companies manufacturing microcircuits of its own design that process analog and mixed signals.

The company has a long history, which begins in 1983 with the creation and subsequent
release of the MAX600 integrated circuit. Presented on the market since 1985, this model was the first and successful step towards the success of the company. Since then, the company's engineers have created and implemented more than 5,000 models of analog chips, allowing Maxim Integrated to become one of the largest and most successful manufacturers of integrated circuits.

Now the company has almost ten thousand employees, and its annual turnover exceeds three billion dollars. Several dozen representative offices and laboratories in many countries around the world are working on the creation of new and production of already proven models. Maxim Integrated's headquarters is located in San Jose, California, and therefore the chip manufacturing country is the United States. This success was made possible not only by huge investments in research and innovation, but also by the acquisition of a number of promising companies.

1) Chips for chargers carry out linear and pulse control of the battery charging current
When the maximum battery charge level is reached, they turn off the device or switch it to a mode where the battery is compensated for recharging. There are both specialized microcircuits for a specific type of battery, and universal ones in which the charging current can be programmed. The company also produces microcircuits that are the main component of so-called “smart” chargers. They accurately determine when the maximum possible charge level is reached without the need to access the battery.

2) Boost converters are chips that are used in power supplies with an output voltage of 2 to 5 V
As a rule, the power source in them is batteries. Maxim boost converters can operate over a wide range of input voltages while consuming very little power. To save energy, microcircuits can be switched to standby mode, and their compact dimensions allow you to save space on printed circuit board.

3) Buck converters
These are microcircuits that operate with input voltage in the range from 2.7 to 14 V, and provide the voltage level necessary for the operation of the device. For stable operation under high loads, the circuits have four operating modes - normal with the highest efficiency over a wide range of currents, PWM with the lowest noise level and a fixed frequency, low-power mode with minimal current consumption and rest mode, in which the current consumption is reduced to 2 μA, and output voltage completely absent.

4) Maxim Integrated Combined Buck-Boost Converters
AND are used in devices that can be powered either from autonomous power sources (batteries) or from electrical networks. In battery mode, the IC operates as a high-efficiency boost converter. In the presence of external source power supply with an input voltage slightly different from the output, the converter adds voltage, operating in stabilizer mode. When the input voltage significantly exceeds the output voltage, the device is powered using a linear stabilizer.

5) Linear stabilizers are used in cases where the noise level at the output of the power source makes normal operation of the device impossible.
Such microcircuits operate with voltages from 1.25 to 15 V.

6) Maxim power chips for mobile devices
They are complex circuits that control power supply consisting of several sources of various types.

7) Processor power chips
Necessary to ensure the operation of the microprocessor, which remains stable over a fairly narrow voltage range. Such a microcircuit generates a microprocessor reset signal, which makes it possible to delay turning on the processor until stable supply voltage levels are established. There are also power supervisor chips that help preserve data stored in non-volatile RAM when power is lost. There are also voltage detectors that alert the processor to voltage changes without resetting it.

8) Reference voltage sources
Used with DACs and analog-to-digital converters, providing minimal power consumption when using a reference voltage from 1.2 V to 10 V.

Chips for communication devices

IN last years Maxim has created and launched high-frequency chips for use in fiber optic and cellular communications. These are power amplifiers operating at high frequencies, preamplifiers low noise, semiconductor laser drivers, modulators and demodulators.

The company has achieved significant success in this segment, using advances in the creation of energy-efficient microcircuits with developments in silicon and germanium technologies.

Separately, it is worth noting the iButton family of chips, which were developed by Dallas Semiconductor, acquired by Maxim Integrated. These are chips with a diameter of 16 mm, enclosed in a cylindrical housing and reinforced with steel. Each such scheme has its own unique number and can be used as a portable storage medium. Made in the form of a keychain, ring or other thing that people carry with them, such a storage medium is, in fact, a personal electronic key.



The success of Maxim Integrated was ensured not only by high quality and wide the lineup products. Focus on high performance and the integration of various parts of the company made it possible to flexibly change production to meet market needs. In order to best meet customer needs, the company reduces the time it takes to develop and bring new devices to market. This is achieved through a customer-oriented management structure and constant monitoring of new trends in the development of partner companies. Thus, Maxim Integrated remains not only one of the pioneers in the production and development of integrated circuits, but continues to occupy a leading position in the market.