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Analog Devices is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 multinational
Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation or transnational corporation is a corporation or enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country....
 producer of semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 devices. Analog specializes in ADC
Analog-to-digital converter

An analog-to-digital converter is a device which converts continuous signal to Discrete signal digital numbers. The reverse operation is performed by a digital-to-analog converter ....
, DAC
Digital-to-analog converter

In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter is a device for converting a digital code to an analog signal .An analog-to-digital converter performs the reverse operation....
, MEMS, and DSP
Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of the signal s by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals....
 chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer
65 nanometer

The 65 Metre#SI prefixed forms of metre process is an advanced Photolithography node used in volume CMOS semiconductor fabrication. Printed linewidths can reach as low as 25 nm on a nominally 65 nm process, while the pitch between two lines may be greater than 130 nm....
 to 3 µm process
3 µm process

The 3 micrometre process process refers to the level of semiconductor process technology that was reached around 1975 timeframe by the leading semiconductor companies, like Intel....
 feature sizes range.

Analog Devices, Inc. currently employs 8,800 employees worldwide. Revenues in fiscal year 2006 totalled $2.57 billion.

og Devices is one of the longest-standing semiconductor companies in the world.






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Analog Devices is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 multinational
Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation or transnational corporation is a corporation or enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country....
 producer of semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 devices. Analog specializes in ADC
Analog-to-digital converter

An analog-to-digital converter is a device which converts continuous signal to Discrete signal digital numbers. The reverse operation is performed by a digital-to-analog converter ....
, DAC
Digital-to-analog converter

In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter is a device for converting a digital code to an analog signal .An analog-to-digital converter performs the reverse operation....
, MEMS, and DSP
Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of the signal s by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals....
 chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer
65 nanometer

The 65 Metre#SI prefixed forms of metre process is an advanced Photolithography node used in volume CMOS semiconductor fabrication. Printed linewidths can reach as low as 25 nm on a nominally 65 nm process, while the pitch between two lines may be greater than 130 nm....
 to 3 µm process
3 µm process

The 3 micrometre process process refers to the level of semiconductor process technology that was reached around 1975 timeframe by the leading semiconductor companies, like Intel....
 feature sizes range.

Analog Devices, Inc. currently employs 8,800 employees worldwide. Revenues in fiscal year 2006 totalled $2.57 billion.

History

Analog Devices is one of the longest-standing semiconductor companies in the world. The company was founded by Ray Stata
Ray Stata

Ray Stata is a cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Analog Devices.A native of Pennsylvania, Stata earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT. In 1965 he founded Analog Devices with MIT classmate Matthew Lorber in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
 and Matthew Lorber in 1965. Stata maintains an active role in the company to this day. On March 11, 1969, an initial public offering
Initial public offering

Initial public offering , also referred to simply as a "public offering" or "flotation," is when a company issues common stock or Share to the public for the first time....
 was held, and Analog Devices became a publicly traded company. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1979. In August 1990 Analog Devices bought Precision Monolithics Inc.
Precision Monolithics

Precision Monolithics, Inc. also known in the electronics industry as PMI, was an United States company based in Santa Clara, California, California, United States that developed and produced linear semiconductor....


Currently, Jerald G. Fishman is the CEO and President, and Stata is the Chairman of the Board.

The company headquarters is in Norwood, Massachusetts
Norwood, Massachusetts

Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 28,587....
. There are large fabrication plants in the US and the main Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an facility is located at Limerick
Limerick

Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the county seat of County Limerick in the province of Munster, in the midwest of Republic of Ireland....
 in the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
. They also have large testing facilities in the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
.

Other international ADI development centers are located in Edinburgh, Scotland; Melbourne, Australia; Munich, Germany; Valencia, Spain; Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
; Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; Tokyo, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; Bangalore, India; and other locations across the globe.

Products

Analog Devices produces a wide array of semiconductor devices, in the following categories:
  • Amplifier
    Amplifier

    Generally, an amplifier or simply amp, is any machine that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a Signal . The "signal" is usually voltage or current....
    s
  • Comparator
    Comparator

    In electronics, a comparator is a device which compares two voltages or Electric currents and switches its output to indicate which is larger....
    s
  • Voltage reference
    Voltage reference

    A voltage reference is an electronic device that produces a fixed voltage irrespective of the loading on the device, power supply variation and temperature....
    s
  • Analog to digital converters
  • Digital to analog converters
  • Embedded Processing
    • SHARC
      SHARC

      SHARC may refer to:* Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer* Swedish Highly Advanced Research Configuration* The STD-HIV/AIDS Related Complex...
    • TigerSHARC
      TigerSHARC

      TigerSHARC refers to a family of microprocessors currently manufactured by Analog Devices .For details of this implementation of the Super Harvard Architecture please see the see also and external links....
    • Blackfin
      Blackfin

      Blackfin refers to a family of 16/32-bit microprocessors with built-in Digital Signal Processor functionality, which is traditionally only accompanied by a small and power-efficient microcontroller....
  • Digital Signal Processing
    Digital signal processing

    Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of the signal s by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals....
  • MEMS
  • Sensor
    Sensor

    A sensor is a device that measures a physical quantity and converts it into a signal which can be read by an observer or by an instrument. For example, a mercury thermometer converts the measured temperature into expansion and contraction of a liquid which can be read on a calibrated glass tube....
    s
  • RF
    RF

    Rf or RF is an abbreviation for:* ** Radiative forcing, is an IPCC unit that nominates the global, annual average of radiative imbalance in net heating of the Earth's lower atmosphere as a result of human activities since the beginning of the industrial era....
  • Power management
    Power management

    Power management is a feature of some electrical appliances, especially photocopying, computer and computer peripherals such as Computer display and Computer printer, that turns off the power or switches the system to a low-power state when inactive....
  • Audio/Video
    • SoundPort and SoundMAX PC sound solutions, AC'97
      AC97

      AC'97 is Intel Corporation's Sound reproduction "Codec" standard developed by the Intel Architecture Labs in 1997, and used mainly in motherboards, modems, and sound cards....
       codecs
  • Fiber optic


Recent news

  • During E³ 2006, it was revealed to the press that Nintendo collaborated with Analog Devices in developing the controller for its new console Wii
    Wii

    The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a History of video game consoles console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3....
    , incorporating the Analog Devices 3-axis linear
    Translation (geometry)

    In Euclidean geometry, a translation is moving every point a constant distance in a specified direction. It is one of the Euclidean groups . A translation can also be interpreted as the addition of a constant vector space to every point, or as shifting the Origin of the coordinate system....
     acceleration sensor
    Accelerometer

    An accelerometer is a device for measuring acceleration and gravity.Single- and multi-axis models are available to detect magnitude and direction of the acceleration as a Euclidean vector quantity, and can be used to sense orientation, vibration and shock....
    .


  • Analog Devices recently collaborated with Source Audio LLC to create the DSP and motion sensor for the motion-controlled Hot Hand guitar effects unit.


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