Analog Devices' TigerSHARC Processor Named 2003 Innovation of the Year Award Finalist by EDN Magazine.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2004

Unique memory structure of the ADSP-TS201 Processor enables

an unprecedented 24 Mbits of embedded DRAM and

5 Gbytes/second I/O bandwidth.

Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, announced today that its ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC(R) Processor has been selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist in the EDN 2003 Innovation of the Year Award competition. This elite awards program, sponsored by EDN Magazine, is dedicated to honoring exceptional products and innovators in the electronics industry. EDN's worldwide readers will vote to select the winners of the 2003 Innovation/Innovator of the Year Awards via an online ballot on the EDN Web site (http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/innovationballot.asp). The ADSP-TS201 is being considered for the award in the "Processors" category and online voting is open through February 19. Winners of the awards will be published in the April 15 issue of EDN. The Innovation of the Year nomination follows EDN's selection of the ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC Processor among its "Top 100 Products of 2003."

The key innovations of the ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC Processor are found in its unique memory structure and balanced architecture, through which the ADSP-TS201 delivers higher levels of performance than competing processors operating at up to twice the frequency. The ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC is the first digital signal processor (DSP) to include 24 Mbits of embedded DRAM -- delivering three times the memory integration of competing processors. The unique memory structure of the ADSP-TS201 significantly increases the speed of the memory and allows the processor to handle datasets four to six times larger than existing devices. Through its balanced architecture, the ADSP-TS201 achieves the industry's highest performance density, delivering up to 1800 MFLOPS (million floating point operations per second) per Watt, 85 MFLOPS per dollar and 3600 MFLOPS per square inch of board space.

"Our ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC Processor represents a significant milestone in the integration of embedded DRAM technology and in the design of an architecture that achieves balance on all fronts -- speed, cost, power and bandwidth," said Jerry McGuire, general manager, Media Platforms and Services Group, Analog Devices, Inc. "By significantly reducing the system cost of very high-performance signal processing systems, such as 3G wireless base stations, our ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC processor solves the root of our customers' problems. It is an honor to have TigerSHARC's innovations recognized by EDN and we are proud to be a finalist for the publication's prestigious Innovation of the Year award."

"We always get an outstanding set of entries to our Innovation program," said EDN Editor-in-Chief Maury Wright. "The chosen finalists should be proud of their selection because many worthy products barely missed the cut."

EDN Magazine has recognized Analog Devices for technology innovation in the past. Most recently for 2002, Analog Devices' iMEMS ADXRS150 Gyroscope won an Innovation of the Year Award, and the company's TigerSHARC 300 MHz processor was nominated as a finalist.

About ADI's TigerSHARC Processor

The TigerSHARC Processor core is unique among high-performance signal processors in that it directly supports both fixed and floating-point data types. The core also supports a unique set of communication and imaging application-oriented instructions, enabling software implementations of functions that were previously available only through ASICs. The TigerSHARC Processor family features two interface types that directly support scalable multiprocessor systems without the need of costly external logic. The cluster bus allows up to 8 TigerSHARC Processors, a host and external memory to share a common bus and a global memory map, allowing for a very simple multiprocessing programming model. The link ports are very high bandwidth interfaces that allow for point-to-point communication between TigerSHARCs or other devices. The aggregate bandwidth of these interfaces is more than 5 Gbytes/second, the highest by far of any competing processor. Analog Devices provides a complete set of software and hardware development tools that include multiprocessing support. No other processor family provides such a rich feature set that directly supports applications requiring multiple processors.

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. The company 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' stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the company is included in the S&P 500 Index.

TigerSHARC is a registered trademark of Analog Devices, Inc. All other trademarks included herein are the property of their respective owners.