Analog Devices
Analog Devices manufactures a wide array of analog and digital integrated circuits. If you are designing a new gadget that needs a radiation-hardened fast A/D converter, this is the place to look. Analog Devices produces many different kinds of amplifiers and signal processors. If you are looking for what’s new in the field of integrated circuitry, check out this place.
I found this site while looking for analog computer tracking circuits for guided missiles. Apparently, the military still uses analog computers in some of its applications. Tracking circuits are a natural for analog computers, as the sensors tend to have an analog output, and the parallel and almost instantaneous response of a fast analog circuit can be quite handy when you need real time control signals for steering a missile.
I haven’t had much time yet to explore this chip supplier website, but it seems more interesting to me than the consumer product websites I looked at this morning. It always amazes me how there can be so much high tech stuff in the world that never gets used in everyday life. Then again, even a simple CD player has some pretty high tech stuff inside it. I really must try to get back into the cutting edge of technology.
