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zGlue Quickly Turns IoT Ideas Into Working Products

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December 26, 2018
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Christine Young, Blogger, Maxim Integrated

Imagine if you could transform your idea for a smart, connected device into a working product in just days. That’s whatzGlue, a Mountain View, California-based startup, wants to help you do.

Figure 1: zGlue is enabling a do-it-yourself chip approach for the IoT.
Figure 1: zGlue is enabling a do-it-yourself chip approach for the IoT.

zGlue has created a 2.5D stacked chip that integrates the processing, sensing, memory, and communication components required by internet of things (IoT) devices. The company’s mission? Democratize innovation so that anyone—even those without an engineering degree—can quickly and easily build a personalized hardware product.

The company’s first product built with its technology, zOrigin, is available for pre-order. zOrigin is a wearable system featuring the zGlue Integration Platform (ZiP) chip in a 8.7mm x 9.1mm package. The chip contains 6 ICs, one FET, and more than 30 passive components. Its size and content can be customized for any design. Traditionally, developing a 2.5D chip can take 5 to 18 months; however, zGluehas found a way to decrease this time down to weeks.

zGlue’s engineeers needed a very low-power, small power-management IC (PMIC) that also supports charging in order to create zOrigin. The company found its solution in Maxim’s MAX77734, a small, highly integrated, ultra-low-power solution with safe charging and low-noise low-dropout (LDO) linear regulator for hearables and IoT designs. “The MAX77734 is a great chip for managing different power rails in wearables and space-constrained designs,” said Omar Alnaggar, director of Hardware Engineering at zGlue. “We also couldn’t find a single power charger IC in the power path until we evaluated the MAX77734—this enables wearable devices to be used while being charged. And the PMIC’s tiny size meets our requirements.”

zGlue has landed on EETimes’s list of “10 IoT Companies to Watch in 2018.” Notes Rick Merritt, the publication’s Silicon Valley bureau chief: “Advanced packaging is a key accelerator given the slowing pace of Moore’s law in high-end chips, and now it also is becoming a key ally for the IoT. Startup zGlue underlined this opportunity with its trailing-edge interposer with integrated passives. It aims to enable a class of low-power, low cost SoCs with its 3,000 programmable pins and 100-MHz interfaces. Well worth watching.”

To learn more about why zGlue is attracting so much attention, read the zGlue testimonial.

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