Articles by Analog Devices Inc.

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced new releases of two popular RF design tools. The ADIsimRF™ design tool is the software accompaniment to ADI’s complete portfolio of RF-to-digital functional blocks, allowing engineers to model RF signal chains using devices from across ADI’s RF IC portfolio. The ADIsimRF Rev. 1.5 enhancements...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) is introducing four high speed data converter products that support signal sampling rates necessary to accommodate multi-carrier radio platform requirements for today’s 3G and 4G cellular infrastructure communication standards, including CDMA2000, UMTS/LTE, TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE. Analog Devices’ AD6649 and AD6643 IF diversity receivers and AD9643...

Automotive safety is evolving from passive systems such as seat belts, airbags and crash detection to active sensing networks capable of collision avoidance and accident prevention. Radar is an especially promising active safety improvement and has the potential to significantly reduce the number and severity of distracted driving accidents....

The industry’s first precision instrumentation amplifier designed and manufactured specifically for high temperature applications was unveiled by Analog Devices Inc. (ADI). The AD8229, 1.0-nV/√Hz high-temperature instrumentation amplifier is the only low noise instrumentation amplifier guaranteed to perform at up to 210°C in the most extreme environments, such as down-hole...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced a new RF transceiver that addresses the ARIB STD-T96 protocol for wireless data transmission. Established by Japan’s ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses), the ARIB STD-T96 is specified for the automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by low-power radio equipment....

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) introduced a highly integrated, low power RF transceiver for operation in the global 2.4 GHz ISM (industrial, scientific and medical) frequency band. As the latest addition to ADI’s extensive RF IC product portfolio, the ADF7241 RF transceiver is designed with emphasis on flexibility, ease-of-use characteristics...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) introduced a new highly integrated, high performance RF detector for use in wireless, instrumentation, defense and other broadband applications. ADI’s new ADL5511 TruPwr root mean square (rms) and envelope detector (an electronic circuit that takes a RF signal as input and provides an output that...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal processing applications and RF ICs, introduced a new highly integrated demodulator for broadband applications, such as cellular base stations, satellite communications, point-to-point (PtP) radios and defense systems. ADI’s new ADRF6850 demodulator expands ADI’s RF/microwave product portfolio and...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and RF integrated circuits, introduced a series of highly integrated RF/IF variable gain amplifiers (VGA). ADI’s new ADL5201, ADL5202, ADL5240 and ADL5243 variable gain amplifiers offer breakthrough levels of integration—combining up to four discrete RF/IF blocks...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) introduced a high-performance development platform for wireless infrastructure equipment designers who need to quickly evaluate systems using DPD (digital pre-distortion) techniques in multi-carrier cellular base stations. ADI’s MS-DPD (mixed-signal, digital pre-distortion) development platform seamlessly integrates a complete high-performance RF and mixed-signal transmit chain from ADI...