Analog Devices
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Analog Devices, Inc. known as ADI, is an American
multinational
semiconductor company specializing in data conversion
and signal conditioning
technology, headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2010, Analog Devices led the worldwide data converter market with a 47.5% share, according to analyst firm databeans.
The company is a leading manufacturer of analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP)
integrated circuits (ICs) used in electronic equipment. These technologies are used to convert, condition and process real-world phenomena, such as light, sound, temperature, motion, and pressure into electrical signals.
Analog Devices has approximately 60,000 customers worldwide. The company serves customers in the following industries: communications, computer, industrial, instrumentation, military/aerospace, automotive, and high-performance consumer electronics applications.
and Matthew Lorber in 1965. The same year, the company released its first product, the model 101 op amp, which was a hockey-puck sized module used in test and measurement equipment. In 1967, the company published the first issue of its technical magazine, Analog Dialogue.
In 1969, Analog Devices filed an initial public offering
and became a publicly traded company. Ten years later, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1973, the company was the first to launch laser trim wafers and the first CMOS digital-to-analog converter.
In August 1990, Analog Devices acquired Precision Monolithics
Inc.
By 1996, the company reported over $1 billion in company revenue. That same year, Jerald Fishman was named President and CEO, a position he still holds today.
In 2000, ADI’s sales grew by over 75% to $2.578 Billion and the company acquired five companies.
By 2004, ADI had a customer base of 60,000 and its portfolio included over 10,000 products.
In June 2010, Analog Devices announced that it would launch a €23M ($28M) investment in its plant in Limerick, Ireland.
, with regional headquarters
located in Shanghai
, China
; Munich
, Germany
; Limerick
, Ireland
; and Tokyo
, Japan
.
Analog Devices has fabrication plants located in the United States and in the Republic
of Ireland. The company’s testing facility is located in the Philippines
.
Design centers are located in Australia
, Canada
, China
, England
, Germany
, India
, Israel
,
Japan
, Scotland
, Spain
and Taiwan
.
is a founder of Analog Devices and was responsible for the business strategy and product roadmap. After founding the company in 1965, Ray served as the company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors (since 1973), Executive Officer (since 1996), CEO (from 1973–1996) and President (from 1971–1991). In addition, Ray is also a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his alma mater and was awarded the IEEE Founders medal in 2003. Ray received the EE Times “Lifetime Achievement” award in 2008. Currently, Ray serves as the chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) for the year 2011.
Jerald G. Fishman
is the CEO and President of Analog Devices, a position he has held since 1996. In 2004, Fishman was named CEO of the Year by Electronic Business He is currently a 35-year veteran of Analog Devices and also serves on the Board of Directors of Analog Devices, Cognex Corporation
and Xilinx
.
Barrie Gilbert
was named the first Technology Fellow of Analog Devices in 1979. In addition, Barrie is an IEEE Life Fellow and holds over 65 patents. Barrie is best known for the “Gilbert cell” – an electronic multiplying mixer. At Analog Devices, Barrie started the company’s Northwest Labs design center in Oregon where he continues to work on RF products crafted with high-speed nonlinear circuit techniques.
Paul Brokaw
is an expert on integrated circuit design
who spent most of his career at Analog Devices, where he held the position of Analog Fellow. He is now employed at IDT. He is the inventor of many analog IC circuits, including the Brokaw bandgap reference
and holds over 100 patents. He is also an IEEE Life Fellow.
Robert Adams is Technical Fellow and manager of audio development at Analog Devices Inc. Robert holds many patents related to the audio and electronic field. He’s also a member of the IEEE and a Fellow in the Audio Engineering Society. Robert received a finalist ranking for the EDN Innovation and Innovator of the Year award in 1995.
Analog Devices product portfolio includes analog signal processing and digital signal processing technologies. These technologies include data converters, amplifiers, radio frequency (RF)
technologies, embedded processors
or digital signal processing (DSP) ICs, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
and sensors, power management, and interface products.
Analog Devices data converters include analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)
and digital-to-analog converters (DACs)
that convert electrical signal representations of real-world analog phenomena, such as light, sound, waveforms, temperature, motion, and pressure into digital signals or data, and back again. Analog Devices ADC and DAC ICs are used in medical systems, scientific instrumentation, wireless and wired communications, radar, industrial process control, audio and video equipment, and other digital-processing-based systems, where an accurate signal conversion is critical. Data converters account for more than 50% of ADI’s revenue. ADI’s companion amplifier ICs provide accurate, high-speed and precise signals for driving data converters and are key for applications such as digital audio, current sensing, and precision instrumentation.
The company’s data converter chips are used by National Instruments
in high-precision measurement instrumentation systems. Its data converters and amplifiers are also used by scientists and researchers in project “IceCube” – an underground telescope that uses digital optical modules (DOMS) to detect subatomic particles in the South Pole.
The company’s AD9647 16-bit A/D converter operates at 250 mega samples per second, which is 25-percent faster than competitive devices.
Analog Devices precision analog microcontrollers combine precision analog functions, such as high resolution ADCs and DACs, voltage reference, temperature sensor, and a host of other peripherals, with an industry-standard microcontroller and flash memory.
Analog Devices micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and sensors address system performance parameters, such as safety, reliability, and highly precise measurements and diagnostics, in healthcare and industrial applications. Analog Devices MEMS microphones are found in smart phones, tablet PCs, security systems, and medical applications. MEMS circuits are used in automobiles , virtual reality and simulation training systems, and high-performance high-bandwidth vibration monitoring. ADI’s MEMS accelerometers were designed into game pad controllers by Microsoft, Logitech and Pellican.
Analog Devices sells power management products to customers in the industrial, wireless infrastructure, and digital camera markets. These products support signal chain design requirements, such as dynamic range, transient performance, and reliability. The company has developed ADIsimPower and other web tools for product selection, design, simulation, optimization, and evaluation board customization.
Analog Devices interface products include a broad range of interface IC products offered by the company in product categories such as CAN (controller area network), digital Isolators, Level Translators, LVDS, Mobile I/O Expander and Key board Controller, USB, RS-232 and RS-485.
Analog Devices amplifiers includes precision and operation amplifiers, instrumentation, current sense, differential amplifiers, audio amplifiers, video amplifiers/buffers/filters, variable gain amplifiers, comparators, voltage, other specialty amplifiers and products for special linear functions.
Analog Devices radio frequency (RF) RF ICs address the RF signal chain and simplify RF system development. The company’s RF portfolio includes TruPwr(tm) RMS power detectors and logarithmic amplifiers; PLL
and DDS synthesizers; RF prescalers; variable gain amplifiers; ADC drivers, gain blocks, LNAs and other RF amplifiers. These products are supported by a wide range of free RF design tools.
Analog Devices processors and DSP are programmable signal processing integrated circuits that execute specialized software programs, or algorithms, associated with processing digitized real-time data. Analog Devices Processors and DSPs are the Blackfin, SHARC, SigmaDSP, TigerSHARC, ADSP-21xx and Precision Analog Microcontrollers. These make up the company's embedded processing and DSP portfolio, that are multi-DSP signal processing, floating point processing
, signal/control processing, fixed-function processing and for microcontroller applications.
Analog Devices sells linear, mixed-signal, MEMS and digital signal processing technologies for medical imaging, patient monitoring, medical instrumentation and home healthcare. The company’s precision signal-processing components and Blackfin digital signal processors are included in Karmelsonix’s Wholter, an overnight pulmonary monitor, and the Wheezometer, a personal asthmatic assessment device. Accelerometers produced by Analog Devices are included in ZOLL Medical’s PocketCPR, which measures the depth of chest compressions and provides audible and visual feedback to a rescuer to allow adjustment to proper depth and to the correct rate of compression.
Automotive
Analog Devices develops components for safety systems, such as stability control systems and driver assistance systems, infotainment and interior applications. Powertrain systems in hybrid and electric vehicles use Analog Devices high-precision data conversion products in battery monitoring and control systems.
Industrial
Analog Devices industrial market includes process control systems that help drive productivity, energy efficiency and reliability.
Consumer
Analog Devices has technology for consumer electronics, which includes signal processing circuits for image processing, auto focus, and image stabilization for digital still cameras and camcorders; audio and video processors for home theater systems, DVD recorders, and high-definition televisions; and advanced touch screen controllers for portable media devices.
, National Semiconductor
, Maxim Integrated Products
, Linear Technology
. Other competitors include: Infineon, STMicroelectronics
and Intersil Corporation
.
Analog Dialogue is a forum for the exchange of circuits, systems, and software for real-world signal processing and is the technical magazine
published by Analog Devices. It discusses products, applications, technology, and techniques for analog, digital, and mixed-signal processing. Analog Dialogue is published monthly on the Web. The featured technical articles are also compiled in quarterly print editions.
Each reference circuit is carefully documented with test data, theory of operation, and component selection decision criteria. In addition reference circuit
s are tailored to meet real-world system integration needs and may also include board layout schematics, CAD tools models, device drivers, and evaluation hardware.
United States
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multinational
Multinational corporation
A multi national corporation or enterprise , is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country. It can also be referred to as an international corporation...
semiconductor company specializing in data conversion
Data conversion
Data conversion is the conversion of computer data from one format to another. Throughout a computer environment, data is encoded in a variety of ways. For example, computer hardware is built on the basis of certain standards, which requires that data contains, for example, parity bit checks....
and signal conditioning
Signal conditioning
In electronics, signal conditioning means manipulating an analog signal in such a way that it meets the requirements of the next stage for further processing...
technology, headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2010, Analog Devices led the worldwide data converter market with a 47.5% share, according to analyst firm databeans.
The company is a leading manufacturer of analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP)
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of discrete time signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. Digital signal processing and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing...
integrated circuits (ICs) used in electronic equipment. These technologies are used to convert, condition and process real-world phenomena, such as light, sound, temperature, motion, and pressure into electrical signals.
Analog Devices has approximately 60,000 customers worldwide. The company serves customers in the following industries: communications, computer, industrial, instrumentation, military/aerospace, automotive, and high-performance consumer electronics applications.
History
The company was founded by two MIT graduates, Ray StataRay Stata
Ray Stata is a cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Analog Devices, Inc..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. Stata was President of the company from 1971 to 1991...
and Matthew Lorber in 1965. The same year, the company released its first product, the model 101 op amp, which was a hockey-puck sized module used in test and measurement equipment. In 1967, the company published the first issue of its technical magazine, Analog Dialogue.
In 1969, Analog Devices filed an initial public offering
Initial public offering
An initial public offering or stock market launch, is the first sale of stock by a private company to the public. It can be used by either small or large companies to raise expansion capital and become publicly traded enterprises...
and became a publicly traded company. Ten years later, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1973, the company was the first to launch laser trim wafers and the first CMOS digital-to-analog converter.
In August 1990, Analog Devices acquired Precision Monolithics
Precision Monolithics
Precision Monolithics, Inc. also known in the electronics industry as PMI, was an American company based in Santa Clara, California, USA that developed and produced mixed signal and linear semiconductors, and is especially noteworthy as the first company to make two-chip and single chip D/A...
Inc.
By 1996, the company reported over $1 billion in company revenue. That same year, Jerald Fishman was named President and CEO, a position he still holds today.
In 2000, ADI’s sales grew by over 75% to $2.578 Billion and the company acquired five companies.
By 2004, ADI had a customer base of 60,000 and its portfolio included over 10,000 products.
In June 2010, Analog Devices announced that it would launch a €23M ($28M) investment in its plant in Limerick, Ireland.
Locations
Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, MassachusettsNorwood, Massachusetts
Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,602. The community was named after Norwood, England...
, with regional headquarters
located in Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, China
China
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; Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
; Limerick
Limerick
Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...
, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
; and Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
.
Analog Devices has fabrication plants located in the United States and in the Republic
of Ireland. The company’s testing facility is located in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
.
Design centers are located in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
,
Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
and Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
.
Notable Employees
Ray StataRay Stata
Ray Stata is a cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Analog Devices, Inc..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. Stata was President of the company from 1971 to 1991...
is a founder of Analog Devices and was responsible for the business strategy and product roadmap. After founding the company in 1965, Ray served as the company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors (since 1973), Executive Officer (since 1996), CEO (from 1973–1996) and President (from 1971–1991). In addition, Ray is also a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his alma mater and was awarded the IEEE Founders medal in 2003. Ray received the EE Times “Lifetime Achievement” award in 2008. Currently, Ray serves as the chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) for the year 2011.
Jerald G. Fishman
Jerald G. Fishman
Jerald G. Fishman has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Analog Devices since November 1996. He is a 35-year veteran of Analog Devices and also serves on the Board of Directors of Analog Devices, Cognex Corporation and Xilinx Inc.-Education:...
is the CEO and President of Analog Devices, a position he has held since 1996. In 2004, Fishman was named CEO of the Year by Electronic Business He is currently a 35-year veteran of Analog Devices and also serves on the Board of Directors of Analog Devices, Cognex Corporation
Cognex Corporation
Cognex Corporation is a manufacturer of machine vision systems, software and sensors used in automated manufacturing to inspect and identify parts, detect defects, verify product assembly, and guide assembly robots. Cognex is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, USA...
and Xilinx
Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. is a supplier of programmable logic devices. It is known for inventing the field programmable gate array and as the first semiconductor company with a fabless manufacturing model....
.
Barrie Gilbert
Barrie Gilbert
Barrie Gilbert was born in 1937 in Bournemouth, England. He is well-known for his invention of numerous analog circuit concepts, holding over 100 patents worldwide, and for the discovery of the Translinear Principle and a class of related topologies loosely referred to as the Gilbert cell, one of...
was named the first Technology Fellow of Analog Devices in 1979. In addition, Barrie is an IEEE Life Fellow and holds over 65 patents. Barrie is best known for the “Gilbert cell” – an electronic multiplying mixer. At Analog Devices, Barrie started the company’s Northwest Labs design center in Oregon where he continues to work on RF products crafted with high-speed nonlinear circuit techniques.
Paul Brokaw
Paul Brokaw
Paul Brokaw is an expert on integrated circuit design who spent most of his career at Analog Devices, where he held the position of Analog Fellow. He is now employed at IDT. He is the inventor of many analog IC circuits, including the Brokaw bandgap reference and holds over 100 patents...
is an expert on integrated circuit design
Integrated circuit design
Integrated circuit design, or IC design, is a subset of electrical engineering and computer engineering, encompassing the particular logic and circuit design techniques required to design integrated circuits, or ICs...
who spent most of his career at Analog Devices, where he held the position of Analog Fellow. He is now employed at IDT. He is the inventor of many analog IC circuits, including the Brokaw bandgap reference
Brokaw bandgap reference
Brokaw bandgap reference is a voltage reference circuit widely used in integrated circuits, with an output voltage around 1.25 V with only little temperature dependence...
and holds over 100 patents. He is also an IEEE Life Fellow.
Robert Adams is Technical Fellow and manager of audio development at Analog Devices Inc. Robert holds many patents related to the audio and electronic field. He’s also a member of the IEEE and a Fellow in the Audio Engineering Society. Robert received a finalist ranking for the EDN Innovation and Innovator of the Year award in 1995.
Core Products and Technologies
ADI TodayAnalog Devices product portfolio includes analog signal processing and digital signal processing technologies. These technologies include data converters, amplifiers, radio frequency (RF)
Radio frequency
Radio frequency is a rate of oscillation in the range of about 3 kHz to 300 GHz, which corresponds to the frequency of radio waves, and the alternating currents which carry radio signals...
technologies, embedded processors
Embedded system
An embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...
or digital signal processing (DSP) ICs, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
Microelectromechanical systems
Microelectromechanical systems is the technology of very small mechanical devices driven by electricity; it merges at the nano-scale into nanoelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology...
and sensors, power management, and interface products.
Analog Devices data converters include analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)
Analog-to-digital converter
An analog-to-digital converter is a device that converts a continuous quantity to a discrete time digital representation. An ADC may also provide an isolated measurement...
and digital-to-analog converters (DACs)
Digital-to-analog converter
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter is a device that converts a digital code to an analog signal . An analog-to-digital converter performs the reverse operation...
that convert electrical signal representations of real-world analog phenomena, such as light, sound, waveforms, temperature, motion, and pressure into digital signals or data, and back again. Analog Devices ADC and DAC ICs are used in medical systems, scientific instrumentation, wireless and wired communications, radar, industrial process control, audio and video equipment, and other digital-processing-based systems, where an accurate signal conversion is critical. Data converters account for more than 50% of ADI’s revenue. ADI’s companion amplifier ICs provide accurate, high-speed and precise signals for driving data converters and are key for applications such as digital audio, current sensing, and precision instrumentation.
The company’s data converter chips are used by National Instruments
National Instruments
National Instruments Corporation, or NI , is an American company with over 5,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software...
in high-precision measurement instrumentation systems. Its data converters and amplifiers are also used by scientists and researchers in project “IceCube” – an underground telescope that uses digital optical modules (DOMS) to detect subatomic particles in the South Pole.
The company’s AD9647 16-bit A/D converter operates at 250 mega samples per second, which is 25-percent faster than competitive devices.
Analog Devices precision analog microcontrollers combine precision analog functions, such as high resolution ADCs and DACs, voltage reference, temperature sensor, and a host of other peripherals, with an industry-standard microcontroller and flash memory.
Analog Devices micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and sensors address system performance parameters, such as safety, reliability, and highly precise measurements and diagnostics, in healthcare and industrial applications. Analog Devices MEMS microphones are found in smart phones, tablet PCs, security systems, and medical applications. MEMS circuits are used in automobiles , virtual reality and simulation training systems, and high-performance high-bandwidth vibration monitoring. ADI’s MEMS accelerometers were designed into game pad controllers by Microsoft, Logitech and Pellican.
Analog Devices sells power management products to customers in the industrial, wireless infrastructure, and digital camera markets. These products support signal chain design requirements, such as dynamic range, transient performance, and reliability. The company has developed ADIsimPower and other web tools for product selection, design, simulation, optimization, and evaluation board customization.
Analog Devices interface products include a broad range of interface IC products offered by the company in product categories such as CAN (controller area network), digital Isolators, Level Translators, LVDS, Mobile I/O Expander and Key board Controller, USB, RS-232 and RS-485.
Analog Devices amplifiers includes precision and operation amplifiers, instrumentation, current sense, differential amplifiers, audio amplifiers, video amplifiers/buffers/filters, variable gain amplifiers, comparators, voltage, other specialty amplifiers and products for special linear functions.
Analog Devices radio frequency (RF) RF ICs address the RF signal chain and simplify RF system development. The company’s RF portfolio includes TruPwr(tm) RMS power detectors and logarithmic amplifiers; PLL
Phase-locked loop
A phase-locked loop or phase lock loop is a control system that generates an output signal whose phase is related to the phase of an input "reference" signal. It is an electronic circuit consisting of a variable frequency oscillator and a phase detector...
and DDS synthesizers; RF prescalers; variable gain amplifiers; ADC drivers, gain blocks, LNAs and other RF amplifiers. These products are supported by a wide range of free RF design tools.
Analog Devices processors and DSP are programmable signal processing integrated circuits that execute specialized software programs, or algorithms, associated with processing digitized real-time data. Analog Devices Processors and DSPs are the Blackfin, SHARC, SigmaDSP, TigerSHARC, ADSP-21xx and Precision Analog Microcontrollers. These make up the company's embedded processing and DSP portfolio, that are multi-DSP signal processing, floating point processing
Floating point
In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent. The base for the scaling is normally 2, 10 or 16...
, signal/control processing, fixed-function processing and for microcontroller applications.
Market Segments
HealthcareAnalog Devices sells linear, mixed-signal, MEMS and digital signal processing technologies for medical imaging, patient monitoring, medical instrumentation and home healthcare. The company’s precision signal-processing components and Blackfin digital signal processors are included in Karmelsonix’s Wholter, an overnight pulmonary monitor, and the Wheezometer, a personal asthmatic assessment device. Accelerometers produced by Analog Devices are included in ZOLL Medical’s PocketCPR, which measures the depth of chest compressions and provides audible and visual feedback to a rescuer to allow adjustment to proper depth and to the correct rate of compression.
Automotive
Analog Devices develops components for safety systems, such as stability control systems and driver assistance systems, infotainment and interior applications. Powertrain systems in hybrid and electric vehicles use Analog Devices high-precision data conversion products in battery monitoring and control systems.
Industrial
Analog Devices industrial market includes process control systems that help drive productivity, energy efficiency and reliability.
Consumer
Analog Devices has technology for consumer electronics, which includes signal processing circuits for image processing, auto focus, and image stabilization for digital still cameras and camcorders; audio and video processors for home theater systems, DVD recorders, and high-definition televisions; and advanced touch screen controllers for portable media devices.
Competitors
In 2009, Databeans published its report on the top semiconductor analog suppliers. Analog Devices was named number two with other suppliers including: Texas InstrumentsTexas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
, National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, that specialized in analog devices and subsystems,formerly headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The products of National Semiconductor included power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers,...
, Maxim Integrated Products
Maxim Integrated Products
Maxim Integrated Products is a publicly traded company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. Maxim develops integrated circuits for the industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets....
, Linear Technology
Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation designs, manufactures and markets a broad line of standard high performance analog integrated circuits. Applications for the company's products include telecommunications, cellular telephones, networking products, notebook and desktop computers, video/multimedia,...
. Other competitors include: Infineon, STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is an Italian-French electronics and semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.While STMicroelectronics corporate headquarters and the headquarters for EMEA region are based in Geneva, the holding company, STMicroelectronics N.V. is registered in Amsterdam,...
and Intersil Corporation
Intersil
Intersil Corporation is an American company that specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of high-performance analog semiconductors for four high-growth markets — Communications, Computing, High End Consumer and Industrial.-Company history:...
.
Analog Dialogue
In 1967, Analog Dialogue was first published by Analog Devices. Two years later, Dan Sheingold took the reins as editor, a position he still holds today. It is currently the longest-running in-house publication in the electronics industry.Analog Dialogue is a forum for the exchange of circuits, systems, and software for real-world signal processing and is the technical magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
published by Analog Devices. It discusses products, applications, technology, and techniques for analog, digital, and mixed-signal processing. Analog Dialogue is published monthly on the Web. The featured technical articles are also compiled in quarterly print editions.
ADI EngineerZone Community
In 2009, Analog Devices launched EngineerZone, an online technical support community for the design engineering community. EngineerZone was launched so the design engineering community (customers, prospects, partners, employees and students) can ask questions, share knowledge and search for answers to their questions in an open forum.Design Resources
Analog Devices circuits from the lab reference circuits are engineered and tested for fast and easy system integration to help solve design challenges ranging from common to complex. Reference circuits are smaller, modular designs that are more broadly applicable than application-specific reference designs.Each reference circuit is carefully documented with test data, theory of operation, and component selection decision criteria. In addition reference circuit
Reference circuit
A reference circuit is a hypothetical electric circuit of specified equivalent length and configuration, and having a defined transmission characteristic or characteristics, used primarily as a reference for measuring the performance of other, i.e., real, circuits or as a guide for planning and...
s are tailored to meet real-world system integration needs and may also include board layout schematics, CAD tools models, device drivers, and evaluation hardware.
Acquisitions
- 1969: Pastoriza Electronics
- 1971: Nova Devices
- 1978: Computer Labs, of Greensboro, North CarolinaGreensboro, North CarolinaGreensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...
- 1984: International Imaging Systems
- 1990: Precision MonolithicsPrecision MonolithicsPrecision Monolithics, Inc. also known in the electronics industry as PMI, was an American company based in Santa Clara, California, USA that developed and produced mixed signal and linear semiconductors, and is especially noteworthy as the first company to make two-chip and single chip D/A...
, Inc. - 1991: Edsun Laboratories- Tech Assets
- 1996: Mosaic Microsystems Ltd.
- 1997: Medialight Inc.
- 1999: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
- 2000: BCO Technologies PLC, Signal Processing Associates, Integrated Micro Instruments Inc., Chiplogic Inc. and Staccato Systems Inc.
- 2006: AudioAsics A/S, Integrant Technologies, TTPCom Ltd.- Certain Property
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- Ray Stata
- Jerald Fishman
- John Doyle
- Kenton Sicchitano
- Neil Novich
- F. Grant Saviers
- James Champy
- John Hodgson
- Paul Severino
- Yves-Andre Istel