Analog Devices (ADI) has acquired power-line communications technology to add to its portfolio of products for energy-metering applications. Analog Devices has acquired the PowerBUS RHINO power-line communications technology and all related patents, hardware, and software from Domosys Corporation, a privately held company based in Quebec City, Canada.

Analog Devices has introduced the AD8264 quad-channel VGA (variable-gain amplifier)—a highly integrated device designed for PET (positron emission tomography) scanners, communication systems, and advanced video equipment. The AD8264 is the industry’s leading four-channel VGA and the first to integrate four ADC (analogue-to-digital converter) drivers, enabling radiological equipment designers, for example, to reduce printed-circuit board area ...

Analog Devices has introduced a clock generator that simplifies clock design and reduces the need for oscillators in multi-standard networking and communications infrastructure systems. The AD9551 clock generator features a new, simplified architecture engineered by ADI that can generate and translate multiple precision network clock frequencies, which enables the replacement of as many as five oscillators. Oscillators support forward error cor...

Analog Devices has announced two new ultra-low-distortion differential amplifiers that set new performance standards for linearity and power consumption. The ADL5561 and ADL5562 differential amplifiers efficiently drive high-speed, high-IF sampling ADCs (analogue-to-digital converters) required by today’s advanced communications systems. The ADL5561 and ADL5562 are capable of maintaining performance while driving ADCs up to 500 MHz, exceeding ...

Use of CT (computed tomography) scanning is increasing as technology improvements provide clearer, more detailed pictures of the human body for physician analysis and diagnosis. At the same time, healthcare facilities are faced with a growing need for better quality, faster, and more affordable diagnostic imaging equipment. Analog Devices is addressing these needs with a new current-to-digital converter chip that enables high slice count CT syst...

Analog Devices has announced the availability of two downloadable software tools that greatly simplify RF systems design. The ADIsimRF design tool easily calculates a variety of parameters within an RF system including cascaded gain, noise figure, power consumption, and more. ADIsimPLL Version 3.1 development software, a new generation of ADI’s popular phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit-design and evaluation tool, assists users in evaluating, desi...

Analog Devices has announced the availability of two downloadable software tools that greatly simplify RF systems design. The ADIsimRF design tool easily calculates a variety of parameters within an RF system including cascaded gain, noise figure, power consumption, and more. ADIsimPLL Version 3.1 development software, a new generation of ADI’s popular phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit-design and evaluation tool, assists users in evaluating, desi...

Analog Devices has introduced one of the industry’s fastest field-effect transistor (FET) operational amplifier currently available. Operating at 1 GHz, the ADA4817 was designed for high-performance medical diagnostic and portable devices, as well as instrumentation equipment. It provides twice as much bandwidth with half the noise of competing devices. It is already designed in at top medical and test and measurement companies for applicati...

Analog Devices has developed a new motion sensing device specifically for energy-constrained portable consumer products. The ADXL345 three-axis digital iMEMS (integrated micro-electro-mechanical system) accelerometer is the lowest-power device in its class, achieving an 80 percent power savings compared to competing three-axis inertial sensors. The ADXL345 also incorporates an on-chip ADC (analog-to-digital converter) that simplifies hardware con...

Fujitsu Ten’s premium audio amplifiers based on the Analog Devices floating point SHARC DSP architecture enable a revolutionary automotive sound experience. This innovative technology researched and implemented by Fujitsu Ten called Acoustical Space Control Technology, not only greatly reduces vibration to the automobile chassis, but in addition compensates simultaneously for the acoustic reflective effects of the cabin glass and sonic absorpti...

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) has introduced the AD8295, a highly integrated precision instrumentation amplifier front-end that uses 50 percent less board space than competing amplifier solutions for industrial and instrumentation applications. Incorporating a world-class instrumentation amplifier with two uncommitted operational amplifiers and two precision-trimmed matched resistors in a single 4-mm × 4-mm chip-scale package, the AD8295 in amp pr...

Analog Devices has introduced the AD8275 level-translating ADC (analog-to-digital converter) driver, which simplifies signal conditioning for high-voltage industrial and instrumentation designs. System designers now can use a single component to attenuate, level-shift, and drive low-voltage ADCs in high-voltage applications, reducing part count and board space by simplifying the signal conditioning complexities that often occur in data acquisit...

Analog Devices has introduced the ADF4602-1 transceiver for 3G femtocell base stations that support the UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system) wireless interface standard for home and office wireless infrastructure equipment. The highly integrated direct conversion transceiver incorporates frequency synthesizers, filters and power management circuitry and can be coupled with ADI’s AD9863 mixed-signal front-end and ADL532x and ADL554x...

Analog Devices' ADIS16355 iSensor multi-axis motion sensor has won the 2008 Elektra Award as semiconductor product of the year. The semiconductor product of the year category is judged on the criteria of innovative design, performance, and meeting a customer need. The ADIS16355 was recognised for allowing industrial designers to equip their systems, for the first time, with sophisticated motion analysis and navigational dead reckoning functions...

Analog Devices has introduced a pair of four-channel 12-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that use 50 percent less printed-circuit-board surface area than other ADCs in their class. The AD9239 and AD9639 quad analog-to-digital converters require only eight pins and traces, compared to as many as 26 in competing dual-channel devices, which yields space savings in high-speed signal processing applications, including cable infrastructure and p...

Analog Devices has unveiled what it says is the industry’s lowest noise, widest bandwidth family of continuous-time sigma-delta (CTSD) analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) today. The 16-bit, AD9261 and AD9262 CTSD converter, and the AD9267 CTSD modulator couple low noise and high dynamic range with a bandwidth of up to 10 MHz.

Analog Devices has introduced what it says is the industry’s smallest 500mA buck regulator, the first of a family of high-frequency 6-MHz dc-to-dc regulators. As the smallest in the 500mA class, the ADP2121 is available in a 1.3mm × 0.9-mm wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP) with a height of 0.6 mm. The device requires only two small capacitors and one small inductor, resulting in a 35-percent reduction in PCB area compared with current 3-...

Analog Devices has broadened its new fourth generation SHARC family, the industry’s highest-performance floating-point digital signal processors, by introducing a series of processors for industrial and instrumentation, automotive audio, and home theatre applications. Sharing the same higher-performance design as the pro audio version of the SHARC 21469 (commercial temperature range) introduced in October, at up to 450 MHz/2700 MFLOPS these new...

A broad portfolio of embedded and signal processing choices is what increasingly attracts industrial application developers to technologies from Analog Devices. This is especially true for the industrial control, and test and measurement designs that require performance scalability, power and cost efficiency, and connectivity to a wide variety of industry standard communications protocols. The company’s Blackfin and SHARC processor families no...

Analog Devices, Inc. is expanding its award-winning iSensor™ intelligent sensor product family with two new inertial sensors that make it simple and affordable to implement sophisticated motion and navigation control in a broader range of applications, including medical instrumentation. The ADIS16405 six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) inertial measurement unit (IMU) combines high-performance, simplicity, and a tri-axis magnetometer sensor for impro...