Introduction

Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI) is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of a broad portfolio of high performance analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs) used in virtually all types of electronic equipment. Since their inception in 1965, they have focused on solving the engineering challenges associated with signal processing in electronic equipment. Used by over 100,000 customers worldwide, their signal processing products play a fundamental role in converting, conditioning, and processing real-world phenomena such as temperature, pressure, sound, light, speed, and motion into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of electronic devices. Combined, they offer an expanded suite of top-performing mixed-signal and power management technologies to help customers succeed in an increasingly digital, ubiquitously sensed and connected world. Together, they extensive breadth of engineering capabilities and depth of domain expertise help our customers solve their most complex problems from DC to 100 GHz, from nanowatts to kilowatts and sensor to cloud.