Maxim was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in California, USA. The company is a leader in the design, development, and production of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuit products. As of June 26, 1999, its net sales revenue has reached 600 million US dollars. The company employs more than 3,000 people at its headquarters in the United States and branches around the world. Mixim has released more than 1780 kinds of analog integrated circuit products, which are at the same level in the industry, among which more than 1480 kinds of products are proprietary products of Mixim. Its products are mainly used in microprocessor-based electronic products, including personal computers, test equipment, handheld devices, wireless communication products and video display equipment. The main products include microprocessor monitoring circuits, data converters, reference power supplies, RS-232 interface circuits, amplifiers, power management, timers, counters, display circuits, multiplexers, switches, voltage monitoring, fiber optic transmitters, pressure and temperature sensors, wireless products, analog filters, etc.