Analog Devices' Honored with Industry Awards for Leading-Edge Products of 2003.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 23, 2003

Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE:ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, today announced that several products introduced in 2003 have been recognized with awards from industry-leading electronic publications--EDN and Electronic Products. EDN selected Analog Devices' quadrature demodulator (AD8348) and TigerSHARC(R) processor (ADSP-TS201) as among its "Top 100 Products of 2003," while Electronic Products bestowed a "Product of the Year" award on the company's quad analog-to-digital converter (AD9229).

"These prestigious industry awards highlight Analog Devices' ongoing commitment to delivering high-performance signal-processing integrated circuits for today's demanding electronics markets," said Vincent Roche, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, Analog Devices, Inc. "These particular ICs are designed to meet the stringent requirements for transmission of data, voice, and images over a variety of communications standards around the world, as well as for sophisticated medical and industrial applications."

Chosen from the thousands introduced this year, products receiving EDN's 'Top 100 Products" award are devices the magazine's editorial staff considers to be outstanding in terms of innovation and technical advancement. The Electronic Products "Product of the Year" award honors products that have made significant advances in technology or its application, a decided innovation in design, or a substantial gain in price-performance.

About the Quadrature Demodulator

The AD8348 broadband quadrature demodulator is a member of Analog Devices' portfolio of award-winning RF (radio frequency) ICs. Designed to enable IF (intermediate frequency)-to-baseband conversion from 50 MHz to 1 GHz within wireless communications equipment, its combination of performance, broadband operating frequency, and flexible device architecture makes the AD8348 ideal for a variety of wireless infrastructure applications. These include 2G, 2.5G and 3G cellular base station radios, high-capacity point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radio links, wireless LAN and wireless local loop equipment.

About the TigerSHARC Processor

The ADSP-TS201 is a member of Analog Devices' TigerSHARC processor family. The chip offers the industry's highest digital signal processing (DSP) performance per-watt and per-square-inch of board space for the most demanding signal- and image-processing applications, such as full software radio implementations in 2G, 2.5G and 3G wireless base stations; 3D ultrasound and other medical imaging systems; radar and sonar applications; as well as industrial instrumentation. The TigerSHARC family sets the industry's highest levels of fixed-point and floating-point signal processing performance by achieving 4.8 billion multiply accumulates per second (GMACS) and 3.6 billion floating-point operations per second (GFLOPS) at 600 MHz. Through a balanced architecture, the ADSP-TS201 delivers higher levels of performance than competing processors operating at up to twice the frequency. Based on a 128-bit static superscalar architecture, TigerSHARC processors offer native support of fixed- and floating-point data types and a balanced combination of computational performance, I/O bandwidth and memory integration, which together yield sustained DSP system-level performance that is two-to-four times greater than conventional DSPs or microprocessors with vector processing units.

About the Quad A/D Converter

The AD9229 quad 12-bit 50-/65-MSPS A/D converter is a new member of Analog Devices' industry-leading high-speed ADC family. Its dynamic specifications, including 70.5-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and 85-dB spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR), are the best-in-class of any 12-bit A/D converter, making it ideal for high-channel-density applications.

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. ADI is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, and employs approximately 8,400 people worldwide. It has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. Analog Devices' common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and ADI is included in the S&P 500 Index.