Analog Devices’ Adams Named IEEE Fellow

“For his contributions to analog and digital signal processing, the IEEE wishes to congratulate Bob Adams by distinguishing him as an IEEE Fellow,” said Dr. Gordon Day, IEEE 2012 president and CEO. “This honor is reserved for those individuals who have demonstrated an outstanding record of accomplishments in an IEEE field of interest. Indeed, the total number of IEEE Fellows selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one-percent of the total voting membership.”

Adams, who is also an ADI Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, has led pioneering work in the electronics industry, including developing and publishing the theory of stabilising high-order noise-shaping loops and developing the first integrated asynchronous sample-rate converter for audio applications. These innovations helped to yield high-quality, cost-effective audio systems for consumer, automotive and other end markets while delivering performance levels previously available only to professional sound engineers. Adams was also the first to discover log-domain filters and published the original paper describing their operation. He has been granted 32 patents.

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