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...

Encirq and Analog Devices, Inc. today announced the availability of DeviceSQL, an embedded database SDK, optimized for developing applications on the ADSP-BF548 Blackfin processor from Analog Devices. DeviceSQL is an award-winning SDK that is used to build a variety of high-speed data management functions including embedded databases, data loggers, search engines, language tables and more. It makes it easy to build extremely fast, tight, reliab...

Analog Devices has announced the availability of the ADF9010, a fully integrated RF Tx modulator and Rx analog baseband for applications that operate in the 900 MHz frequency range, including RFID readers, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band radio communications devices, professional mobile radios, cellular base stations and RF-over-coax applications. The ADF9010 integrates a high-performance Tx quadrature modulator with an integer-N sy...

Analog Devices has introduced RF (radio frequency) detector products for RF and analog engineers who need to improve power detection performance while simplifying the design of cellular handsets, wireless infrastructure equipment and communications instrumentation. The ADL5502 is the industry's first integrated crest-factor RF power detection IC and combines an rms (root mean square) RF detector and an envelope detector to enable cell phone desi...

Analog Devices has introduced RF (radio frequency) detector products for RF and analog engineers who need to improve power detection performance while simplifying the design of cellular handsets, wireless infrastructure equipment and communications instrumentation. The ADL5502 is the industry's first integrated crest-factor RF power detection IC and combines an rms (root mean square) RF detector and an envelope detector to enable cell phone desi...

Analog Devices (ADI) has extended its family of differential amplifiers by introducing a new device with the industry’s best distortion performance at the lowest power consumption for engineers who need maximum performance when driving high-resolution ADCs (analogue-to-digital converters) in communications infrastructure, instrumentation and other high-speed equipment. Optimised to drive today’s high-performance 14- and 16-bit converters, t...

Analog Devices is expanding its iSensor intelligent sensor product family with a new six-degrees-of-freedom (6 DoF) inertial sensor. The ADIS16365 IMU (inertial measurement unit) combines high-performance, simplicity, and an improved data interface that delivers faster response times and lowers power consumption relative to other IMUs in its class. The ADIS16365 makes complex motion sensing design significantly easier and more cost-effective for ...

Analog Devices is expanding its family of digital isolation products with a series of four-channel devices that isolate both data and power. Each device integrates ADI’s iCoupler digital isolation technology and ADI’s proprietary isoPower dc-to-dc converter, providing both isolated power and isolated signal channels within a single package.

Tuning its proprietary iCoupler digital isolation technology to meet the reliability and quality needs of emerging electric-hybrid vehicles, Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) is introducing a family of digital isolators designed to operate in today’s electrically challenging automotive environment. Unlike the relatively low-voltage signals powering most in-car entertainment, safety, and power train systems, hybrid-vehicle batteries can operate at volt...

Analog Devices has introduced two analog output drivers that are said to significantly improve the efficiency and reliability of process control applications, including those operating with high compliance voltages and temperatures. Using technological advancements enabled by ADI’s iCMOS industrial process technology, the AD5750 and AD5751 output drivers achieve a three-fold improvement in accuracy over competing solutions, providing an accurac...

Analog Devices has introduced a high-bandwidth MEMS vibration sensor to help factory floor operators better monitor equipment performance and reduce costly downtime due to unforeseen system failures. Based on Analog Devices’ iMEMS Motion Signal Processing technology, the new ADXL001 industrial vibration and shock sensor for the first time allows industrial equipment designers to cost-effectively incorporate high-performance, dependable high-ban...

Analog Devices has introduced the ADA4898, the latest addition to its portfolio of low-noise operational amplifiers (op amps). Following the success of the ADA4899 and AD8099 operational amplifiers, the ADA4898 offers designers a unique blend of low distortion, low noise, and high speed for applications that also require high precision. Designed to work with Analog Devices’ precision data converters, including the AD7631 and AD7634, the ADA4898...

Analog Devices is expanding its portfolio of market-leading energy metering solutions with the ADE51xx and ADE55xx single-chip metering devices, which are designed for the increasingly sophisticated communications networks used by today’s energy markets. Globally, solid-state energy meters are replacing failure-prone electromechanical systems, which are subject to meter tampering and cannot easily support new features such as remote meter-readi...

Analog Devices, Inc. is expanding its power management offerings with the industry’s most accurate low-voltage monitoring and sequencing ICs. Leveraging ADI’s precision analogue design techniques, the new ADM1184 and ADM1186 quad voltage-monitor and sequencer ICs are twice as precise as competing devices, offering best-in-class accuracy (

As part of its commitment to supporting all major microprocessor platforms, Micrium has announced that its uC/OS-IITM real time operating system (RTOS) and uC/TCP-IPTM network stack have been ported to Analog Devices’ Blackfin family of microprocessors. The company’s uC/ProbeTM monitoring tool is also fully compatible with Blackfin processors.

Analog Devices has introduced two audio processors for HDTV sound that provide uninterrupted, high-fidelity audio connectivity from a variety of digital and analog home entertainment sources. The ADAV4601 and ADAV4622 audio processors expand ADI’s Advantiv advanced television solutions portfolio to provide complete, cost-effective, fully programmable audio solutions that speed delivery of audio enhancements in flat-panel plasma and LCD HDTV des...

Analog Devices has introduced what it says is the industry’s first isolated half-bridge gate drivers that incorporate isolated power and isolated gate drivers in one package. Competitive products, such as optocoupler isolated gate drivers, require separate power isolation. Integration eliminates components, reduces system cost and size by as much as 50 percent, and improves system reliability and quality by simplifying designs. Furthermore, the...

Playing unplugged is the essence of making music with an acoustic guitar -- one big reason acoustic musicians have had relatively few choices in effects processors, while plugged-in electric guitarists have so many. With the help of Analog Devices’ Blackfin processor, Fishman Transducers, Inc. specifically designed its AFX pedals to play right to what acoustic musicians want: tonal nuances, rich natural sound, and many hours of unplugged opera...