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ENERGY SOLUTIONSToday’s energy infrastructure is undergoing rapid change that presents a range of technical challenges for system architects. Analog Devices enables our customers to interpret the physical condition of electrical grids worldwide by offering technologies that can sense, measure, and connect with big data platforms. Let our team of technical experts help you design your systems.
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Transmission and Distribution
ADI offers best-in-class converter technology that can operate with many types of input sensor technologies and supports the broadest range of analog input bandwidth, giving customers the architecture options they need to meet the most demanding system requirements.
Communications
ADI’s portfolio of radio transceiver products supports a variety of international communication standards within a common hardware platform. This flexibility enables our customers to future-proof their R&D investment and maximize engineering reuse.
Renewable Energy Generation
ADI offers a complete signal chain for fast-switching solar photovoltaic inverter architectures. Our ARM-®
based control processors are optimized for multilevel switching topologies and new SiC/GaN-based power transistor technologies.
Energy Storage
Energy storage is a critical element for leveraging intermittent renewable and distributed generation technologies. ADI offers a wide range of signal chain solutions for battery management systems, charging, and power conversion.
ADI Technology Improves the Smart GridADI’s commitment to silicon innovation, performance, and reliability coupled with world-class system support, has resulted in tremendous opportunities for new technologies. Here are just a few examples:
Meter Diagnostics
ADI has shipped nearly a half billion metrology ICs for utility-grade meters and we are developing mSure,™ an exciting new technology that provides comprehensive accuracy monitoring and self diagnostic capability for the entire system, including the sensor.
Relay Protection
ADI is the leading supplier of converters and signal processors for high/medium voltage protection equipment and is offering the AD777x series, a new data acquisition system with breakthrough dynamic range and throughput.
Solar Inverters
ADI was the first company to develop devices with a fully integrated signal chain for solar inverter applications and today our ADSP-CM41x series leads the industry in efficiency and performance via extremely precise control.
Metering and Energy Monitoring
ADI has advanced technology for metering that enables better system health, helps prevent energy theft, and simplifies energy meter manufacturing that helps drive lower operating expenses.
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Technology-Driven Innovation
Market-Driven Innovation
Broadest Technology Portfolio for Electrical Grid Infrastructure
X Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)
X Simultaneously sampling ADCs
X Isolated ADCs
X Digital signal processors (DSPs)
X Mixed-signal control processors
X Isolated IGBT/SiC/GaN gate drivers
X Digital isolators and interface
X Single phase metering ICs
X Polyphase metering ICs
X Voltage references
X Temperature sensors
X Power management
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Commitment to Innovation that Fuels Investment in R&D At ADI, our innovation is fueled by a 5000 engineer strong organization that dedicates 19% of our annual revenues to R&D. This represents $2.6B in the past five years. As of 2014, ADI held approximately 1850 U.S. patents and approximately 750 pending U.S. patent applications.