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Seven ICs in One Chip.(Analog Devices Inc introduce ADE7100 and ADE7500 families of single-chip solution )

Design News, November, 2006 by Murray, Charles J.

By Charles J. Murray Energy measuring chip brings more LCD meters to residential market A new single-chip solution may replace as many as seven separate integrated circuits (ICs) in energy meters, enabling designers to bring products to market faster and for less cost. The solution could make it easier for manufacturers to bring LCD-based electronic meters to the $100 million-a-year residential meter market.

Developed by engineers at Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), the new solution incorporates an energy measurement core, microcontroller, on-chip Flash memory, Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) driver, analog-to-digital converter, real-time clock, temperature sensor and battery management circuitry. In many cases, those elements could require as many as...

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