Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), also known simply as Analog, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion, signal processing, and power management technology, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.Hoovers. "Analog Devices, Inc.." Retrieved January 4, 2011.
The company manufactures analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs) used in electronic equipment.Reuters. "Analog Devices, Inc.." Retrieved January 4, 2011. These technologies are used to convert, condition and process real-world phenomena, such as light, sound, temperature, motion, and pressure into electrical signals.ECE lab. "Digital Signal Processors (DSP's) ." Retrieved January 30, 2011.
Analog Devices has approximately 100,000 customers in the following industries: communications, computer, instrumentation, military/aerospace, automotive, and consumer electronics applications.Bloomberg. "ADI: Analog Devices Inc Summary." Retrieved January 30, 2011.
Products and technologies
Analog Devices products include analog signal processing and digital signal processing technologies.Reuters. "Analog Devices, Inc." Retrieved January 4, 2011. These technologies include data converters, amplifiers, radio frequency (RF) technologies, embedded processors or digital signal processing (DSP) ICs, power management, and interface products.
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.Rick Nelson. "IC vendors seek green applications ." January 6, 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2011. 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.Pradeep Chakraborta. "Analog Devices leads global data conversion market." July 22, 2010. Retrieved January 20, 2011. 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.James DeTar, Investor's Business Daily. "EyeMario Lets Eyes Control Games; New Research To Be Unveiled ." October 29, 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2011. Its data converters and amplifiers are also used by scientists and researchers in project "IceCube" – an underground neutrino telescope that uses digital optical modules (DOMS) to detect subatomic particles in the South Pole.The Boston Globe. "Ice telescope uses Analog Devices components." June 30, 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2011.EE Times. "IceCube telescope: Extreme science meets extreme electronics." June 25, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
Power management products for customers in the industrial, wireless infrastructure and digital camera markets support signal chain design requirements, such as dynamic range, transient performance, and reliability.Peter Henry, EE Times. "Power Management: Designing from a System-level Perspective." August 30, 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
Interface products include a broad range of interface IC products offered by the company in product categories such as CAN (controller area network),EDN. "Industrial CAN transceivers are fully isolated." October 25, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2011. digital isolators,PowerPulse.Net. "Analog Devices Introduces Digital Isolator with Integrated Transformer Driver & PWM Controller." October 26, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2011. level translators, LVDS, mobile I/O expander and keyboard controller, USB, and RS-232.DigiKey. "ADM3251E Line Driver/Receiver ." Retrieved March 14, 2011.
Amplifiers includes precision and operational amplifiers,EDN. "The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2009 ." December 15, 2009. Retrieved March 3, 2011. instrumentation,Richard Gawel, Electronic Design. "." December 10, 2008. Retrieved March 3, 2011.DesignNew. "National Instruments Demonstrates 'Eyes Only' Game Technology ." February 7, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2011. current sense, differential amplifiers,Paul Buckley, EE Times Europe. "Differential RF/IF amplifier claims best-in-class performance for driving high-speed data converters ." June 8, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2011.Louis E. Frenzel, MobileDesign.com. "5-GHz Differential Amp Solves The Drive Problem." June 15, 2010. Retrieved July 18, 2011. audio amplifiers, video amplifiers/buffers/filters, variable gain amplifiers, comparators, voltage, other specialty amplifiers and products for special linear functions.
Radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs)Janine Love, EE Times. "Free RF design tools aim to speed time to market." June 2, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2011.Paul O'shea, EE Times. "Active receive mixer meets demanding wireless signal processing needs." April 7, 2004. Retrieved July 15, 2011. address the RF signal chain and simplify RF system development.Paul Buckley, EE Times Europe. "New RF design tools simplify RF system development to speed time-to-market ." June 1, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2011. The company's RF portfolio includes TruPwrAnuradha Shukla, TMCnet. "ADI Introduces TruPwr RF Power Detector for 3G and 4G Mobile Terminals." June 15, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2011. RMS power detectors and logarithmic amplifiers; PLL and DDS synthesizers; RF prescalers; variable gain amplifiers;Janine Love, EE Times. "Variable gain amplifier takes aim at wireless infrastructure." January 16, 2006. Retrieved July 15, 2011.Ismini Scouras, EE Times. "Variable gain amplifier drives low impedances from one power supply." February 11, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2011.Ismini Scouras, EE Times. "RF/IF variable-gain amplifier fits wireless infrastructure apps." February 1, 2006. Retrieved July 15, 2011. ADC drivers, gain blocks, LNAs and other RF amplifiers.Compound Semiconductor. "Analog Devices Unveils Highly integrated SiGe BiCMOS and GaAs RF/IF Amplifier ." September 28, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
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,Colin Holland, EE Times. "Cost-conscious Blackfin packs in the processing power." September 14, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2011. SHARC,BDTi. "Analog Devices Introduces Lower-Cost SHARC Processors." April 21, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2011. SigmaDSP,Embedded Insights. "Analog Devices: SigmaDSP." Retrieved March 3, 2011. TigerSHARC, ADSP-21xx and Precision Analog Microcontrollers. These make up the company's embedded processing and DSP portfolio, that are multi-DSP signal processing,Jeff Bier, EE Times. "A Survey of Mainstream DSP Processors." April 4, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
Historical Analog Devices had a line of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) microphones until it sold that business to InvenSense in 2013.October 21, 2013 Analog Devices sells its MEMS microphone business to InvenSense Analog Devices MEMS microphones were found in smart phones, tablet PCs, security systems, and medical applications.R Colin Johnson, EE Times. "Xsens, Analog Devices collaborate on 'Iron Man' MEMS sensors." May 19, 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2011.Margery Conner, EDN. "." May 7, 2008. Retrieved January 10, 2010. ADI's MEMS accelerometers were designed into game pad controllers by Microsoft, Logitech and Pellican.Vanessa Knivett, EE Times Asia/Analog Designline Europe. "MEMS accelerometers find place in CE." February 13, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
History The company was founded by Ray Stata and Matthew Lorber, two MIT graduates, in 1965. The same year, the company released its first product, the Model 101 operational amplifier (op amp),Richard Wilson, Electronics Weekly. "50 years in electronics: Hall of Fame." October 1, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2011. which was a hockey-puck sized module used in test and measurement equipment.ADI Fact Sheet. "ADI Fact Sheet ." Retrieved January 19, 2011. In 1967, the company published the first issue of its technical magazine, Analog Dialogue.TheFreeLibrary. "40 Years of Analog Dialogue. ." Retrieved January 17, 2011.
In 1969, Analog Devices filed an initial public offeringComputer History Museum. "Companies." Retrieved January 19, 2011. and became a publicly traded company. Ten years later, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.Juggle.com "Analog Devices ." Retrieved January 19, 2011.
In 1973, the company was the first to launch laser trim wafers and the first CMOS digital-to-analog converter. By 1996, the company reported over $1 billion in company revenue.Company Timeline. "ADI's interactive timeline." 2005. That same year, Jerald Fishman was named president and CEO, a position he held until his death in 2013 (see below).Company Fact Sheet. "ADI Fact Sheet ." Retrieved January 20, 2011.Reuters. "Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI): Jerald Fishman." Retrieved January 20, 2011.
In 2000, Analog Devices's sales grew by over 75% to $2.578 Billion and the company acquired five companies including BCO Technologies PLC, a manufacturer of thick film semiconductors, for $150 million.
By 2004, Analog Devices had a customer base of 60,000 and its portfolio included over 10,000 products.
In January 2008, ON Semiconductor completed the acquisition of the CPU Voltage and PC Thermal Monitoring Business from Analog Devices., for $184 million.
In 2012, the company led the worldwide data converter market with a 48.5% share, according to analyst firm Databeans.Database. "." May 2012. Also, the company moved its listing from the NYSE to Nasdaq effective April 2, 2012.
In July 2016, Analog and Linear Technology agreed that Analog would acquire Linear in an approximately $14.8 billion cash and stock deal.
In July 2020, Analog agreed to acquire Maxim Integrated in an all stock deal that values the combined company at $68 billion.
Locations
Analog Devices is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, with regional headquarters located in Shanghai, China; Munich, Germany; Limerick, Ireland; and Tokyo, Japan. Company About ADI. "Regional Headquarters." Retrieved January 26, 2021.
Analog Devices has fabrication plants located in the United States and in Ireland. The company's testing facilities are located in General Trias, Philippines; Chonburi, Thailand; and Penang, Malaysia. Design centers are located in Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, England, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey and the United States.
Employees