Analog Devices has introduced eight TxDAC transmit digital-to-analogue converters (DACs), each integrating two DACs on a single device. Adding to ADI’s extensive high-speed DAC portfolio, the new pin-compatible dual TxDAC converters are designed for communications, industrial, instrumentation and other demanding high-performance applications for which low power consumption and space savings yield significant cost, performance and time-to-marke...

Analog Devices has introduced the ADF4350 synthesizer with on-chip VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator) and PLL (phase-locked loop), which is the industry’s first fully integrated synthesizer to operate over an exceptionally wide continuous frequency range. Also, ADI introduced a family of highly integrated active and passive mixers that are ideally suited for use in diversity communications applications. The active ADL5802 and passive ADL5356, ...

Analog Devices Inc and AxiomFount Inc. have announced the availability of the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework on Analog Devices’ popular Blackfin processors. The move brings the popular managed-code application environment to the world’s only convergent processor family via AxiomFount’s AxiDotNet and integrated .NET Micro Framework solutions. This gives a broad community of application developers easy access to high-performance signal proc...

Analog Devices has unveiled the Blackfin BF51x series, the newest members of the signal processing pioneer’s convergent-processor family. The new offerings continue to demonstrate the superior ability of the Blackfin convergent-processor architecture to reduce cost, power consumption, software complexity, and development schedules in a broad spectrum of mobile lifestyle, industrial and instrumentation, portable medical diagnostic and VoIP telep...

Analog Devices, Inc. today introduced an extension to its SigmaDSP® audio processor family for automotive head units and amplifiers that require signal routing and processing from multiple audio sources. With an industry-leading audio instruction set, the ADAU1442, ADAU1445 and ADAU1446 SigmaDSP audio processors incorporate a Flexible Audio Routing Matrix (FARM), which allows automotive audio sub-system engineers to significantly increase the pr...

Analog Devices has extended its line of audio processing solutions with a pair of codecs (coder/decoders) for high-performance portable audio electronics that deliver longer battery life without compromising audio quality. The ADAU1361 and ADAU1761 24-bit audio codecs are ideally suited for wireless handsets, portable media players, portable navigation devices, digital still cameras and other mobile audio and telephony applications. The ADAU1361 ...

Analog Devices has introduced a high-speed differential amplifier that delivers the industry’s best combination of high performance, low noise and reduced power consumption for engineers driving high-gain ADCs (analogue-to-digital converters) in power-sensitive communications and instrumentation systems. Drawing less than half the current of other devices in its class, ADI’s ADA4927 differential amplifier achieves greater than 80 dB SFDR (spu...

Analog Devices has introduced a pair of clock-generation and distribution ICs with the industry’s best combination of device integration, low-noise, low-jitter performance and signal output flexibility. The AD9520 and AD9522 multi-output clock generators include a 512-byte embedded EEPROM memory block, affording system engineers a programmable clock solution that can serve as both the source and system clock.

Analog Devices has introduced a family of high-performance LDO (low dropout) regulators that generates the low noise, low voltage supply rails and extended battery life required for superior performance in mobile handsets and other battery-powered devices. The ADP120 and ADP121 LDOs are available in the industry’s smallest wafer-level chip scale package (WLCSP), as well as a standard TSOT (thin, small-outline transistor) option, offering design...

Expanding its broad portfolio of video crosspoint solutions, Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) has introduced the industry’s lowest power 32 x 32 analog crosspoint switches. Delivering an unmatched combination of low power and high speed, the ADV320x family of buffered analog crosspoint switches consumes only 1.25 W – 40 percent less than the nearest 32 × 32 solution – while delivering superior bandwidth of 300 MHz, a 300 percent increase in spee...

Despite the proliferation of electronics devices that integrate voice, music, and video, the quality of sound produced by these handheld electronics has not lived up to consumer expectations. Analog Devices, Inc., (ADI) well-known to audiophiles for its high-fidelity audio technology, has created a microphone capable of high-fidelity audio/video playback, conference calling, TIA-920-compliant VoIP (voice-over-IP), voice recognition, and other fu...

Analog Devices has introduced a highly integrated precision operational amplifier (op amp) with on-chip over-voltage protection circuitry. The ADA4091-2 precision op amp affords industrial equipment designers the industry's most reliable, accurate, easy-to-use alternative to competing discrete analog input solutions.

Analog Devices has announced the appointments of Shalini Palmer as Northern Europe Sales Director and Kevin Carlin as Central Europe Sales Director. Both appointments bring a wealth of experience into the European sales operation as Analog Devices looks to expand its coverage in the region to better support existing customers and partners, helping them meet their design and time to market requirements.

Analog Devices has introduced three high-performance video amplifiers that enable high-definition (HD) television and video equipment designers to bring professional and consumer products to market with new levels of picture quality and power efficiency. Additions to ADI’s Advantiv advanced television solutions portfolio, the ADA4420-6 video filter and the compact ADA4855-3 and ADA4856-3 triple, rail-to-rail output video amplifiers cost-effecti...

As hospitals, medical clinics, and mobile emergency units increasingly rely on high-performance and portable ultrasound equipment for routine, preventative, and acute medical care, ultrasound equipment designers must meet new and varied demands for a better balance between image quality and power efficiency. Addressing this need, the leading provider of data conversion technology and longtime collaborator to the medical imaging industry, Analog D...

Analog Devices has introduced the ADV7521NK, what it says is the industry’s smallest, low-power HDMI v 1.3 (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) transmitter that enables video delivery to HD televisions from portable multimedia devices, including digital still and DSLR cameras, camcorders, portable media players and cell phones.

Analog Devices has introduced one of the industry’s smallest buck-boost regulators—and the first to support switching frequencies at speeds up to 2.5 MHz. Designed to regulate voltages above and below the battery output voltage in portable electronics, ADI’s ADP2503 and ADP2504 step-up/step-down dc-to-dc regulators incorporate a patent-pending architecture that delivers seamless mode transitions. The ultra-fast switching speed of the new r...

Analog Devices has expanded its PulSAR family of precision 16-bit SAR (successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converters) with a breakthrough in data conversion that delivers an unequalled combination of speed and accuracy. The ability to process information at higher speeds while preserving data integrity is a key requirement in today’s most advanced industrial and medical systems. For example, in medical MRI (magnetic resonance i...

Analog Devices, Inc. continues to expand its radio frequency product portfolio, adding a new quadrature demodulator and dual gain trim amplifier for direct conversion receivers in next generation cellular 3G/4G and broadband wireless 802.16 applications. The ADL5380 demodulator is the industry’s first product capable of operating from 400 MHz to 6 GHz, which allows radio designers to apply the same device across a range of products and frequen...

Analog Devices, Inc. today introduced a highly integrated microcontroller family with best-in-class data conversion performance for hardware, firmware and industrial systems engineers designing smart sensing, factory automation and instrumentation equipment. The ADuC706x family expands ADI’s precision analog microcontroller portfolio by incorporating two 24-bit sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and a host of analog peripherals wit...