Analog Devices' High-Speed Amplifier Named Innovation of the Year.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers electronicaUSA 2004 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 2004 electronicaUSA with the Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Conference-- EDN Magazine's award recognizes ADI's AD8099 for revolutionary architecture and superior noise and distortion performance Analog Devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ADI), a global leader in high performance semiconductors for signal processing See DSP. applications, captured the EDN 2003 Innovation of the Year Award in the analog ICs category with its high-speed operational amplifier operational amplifier, amplifier whose output voltage is proportional to the negative of its input voltage and that boosts the amplitude of an input signal many times, i.e., has a very high gain. , the AD8099. Recognizing groundbreaking innovation in the electronics industry, this year's awards were announced at EDN's 14th Annual Innovator/Innovation of the Year Awards dinner at The W Hotel in San Francisco on March 29, 2004. Ushering in a new era for high-speed operational amplifiers, the AD8099 minimizes two fundamental error sources in amplifier design - voltage noise and harmonic distortion - and is ideal for applications that require the highest degree of accuracy, such as radar-based collision avoidance systems, medical ultrasound signal processing, and precision instrumentation. Editors from EDN, the premier design publication in the electronics industry, chose finalists from hundreds of candidates, and readers cast their votes to determine the winners. Innovation awards were handed out in 16 different categories. "We are honored to receive this distinguished award from EDN," said Lew Counts, Analog Devices fellow and vice president of Linear Products. "However, the real winners are the system designers. The AD8099 addresses their most important issue--maximizing dynamic range at ever increasing speeds. The combination of ultra-low noise with low distortion, while maintaining high full-power bandwidth at low gains, enables a new level of system performance." The AD8099, with a 3.8GHz gain-bandwidth product, achieves a tenfold reduction in wideband distortion and a three-times improvement in slew rate over competing sub 1-nV/ amplifiers. About Analog Devices Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). applications. The company is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, and employs approximately 8,600 people worldwide. It has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , Ireland, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Analog Devices' stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. and the company is included in the S&P 500 Index. |
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