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- The market is evolving. The rules are changing. To keep your time to market short, you need integration at every level—from silicon to the supply chain. Count on Maxim Integrated to help you overcome design and architectural challenges, with integrated solutions for the industrial, medical, consumer, automotive, energy, computing, and communications realms. Maxim Integrated is also your source for power, interface, and even digital products that work in the analog world. And they’re glad to support you with reference designs, tools, technical documents, packaging, and more. We invite you to explore their latest analog integration offerings.

- Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) defines innovation and excellence in signal processing. ADI's analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (IC) play a fundamental role in converting, conditioning, and processing real-world phenomena such as light, sound, temperature, motion, and pressure into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of electronic equipment. ADI is synonymous with high performance among electronics manufacturers and we collaborate with our customers to define the very best in the quality of the user experience. That means the clearest image, crispest sound, and optimum interface, size and performance in thousands of entertainment, medical, communications, industrial and other applications. Analog Devices, Inc. has completed its acquisition of Hittite Microwave Corporation. Hittite will be part of ADI’s RF and Microwave Group (RFMG). Analog Devices, Inc. acquires Linear Technology: With the combined 80 years of technology excellence, ADI becomes "The Premier Global Analog Technology Company". This new comprehensive portfolio gives customers an edge by market leading position, innovation, and commitment. More Information

- Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

- Intersil Corporation is a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog semiconductors. The Company's products address some of the industry's fastest growing markets, such as: flat panel displays, cell phones, other handheld systems, and notebooks. Intersil’s product families address power management and analog signal processing functions. Intersil products include battery management ICs, hot-swap and hot-plug controllers, linear regulators, supervisory ICs, switching DC/DC regulators, power MOSFET drivers, optical storage laser diode drivers, DSL line drivers, video and high performance operational amplifiers, data converters, interface ICs, analog switches and multiplexers, crosspoint switches, voice-over-IP devices, and ICs for military, space, and radiation-hardened applications.

- Packet Digital designs, develops and markets advanced power management integrated circuits for portable electronic devices. By taking a real-time systems approach to power management, Packet Digital developed PowerSage®, a product family of intelligent integrated circuits that monitors an entire system and distributes power only when needed by using dynamic frequency and voltage scaling. Through this innovative approach, PowerSage components have extended battery life up to 400% in wireless sensors and greater than 25% on complex handset designs. The PowerSage design is not tied to a specific application or architecture and has the ability to significantly improve the performance of systems in many applications, such as mobile phones, laptops, servers and communication and wireless devices. Additionally, PowerSage power management integrated circuits can replace multiple components, driving reductions in device cost, weight and size. On-Demand Power® technology has the ability to scale to all applications, from small electronic devices to the power grid. The system-wide real-time approach can be utilized in any system where intelligent dynamic power management can adjust power automatically with the instantaneous load. Packet Digital, LLC was founded in 2003 as an engineering services company building products for other companies, including the Department of Defense, Corning and Crane. Packet Digital invested profits from contracts and federal grants into fundamental research on power management. The research generated our core intellectual property and technology which has been awarded seven United States patents. The effectiveness and elegance of our power management designs address a critical issue in portable electronics extending battery life. In 2008, Packet Digital changed its focus to a fabless semiconductor power management company. Today, Packet Digital is an emerging world leader in the design, development, and marketing of advanced power management solutions for portable electronic devices and embedded systems. With its patented On-Demand Power® technology and PowerSage® integrated circuits, Packet Digital extends battery life in portable electronic devices, helping consumer electronics companies and branches of the military develop faster, smarter, smaller products. Since every electronic design needs power management circuitry, PowerSage ports to any platform and scales to any architecture or application, from personal electronic devices to the power grid. Company Highlights: Packet Digital pioneers an innovative approach to using autonomous system-level power management to achieve dramatic power savings. Unique, industry-leading, patented architecture is flexible and portable across multiple applications, from laptops to handsets, from servers to embedded devices Patented technology in On-Demand Power recognized by a leading market research firm as particularly important for the future of the electronics industry PowerSage extends battery life by 400% in wireless sensors and more than 25% in PDAs and certain laptop peripherals over best competing technologies Packet Digital has been in collaboration with Intel on solutions for Mobile Computing that extend battery life Intel Corp has completed validation of Packet Digital’s PowerSage for notebooks verifying substantial power savings. Intel has included PowerSage in their 2012 mainstream notebook reference designs and customer reference boards distributed in Q2 2011 In research for the Marine Corps System Command, Packet Digital demonstrated 67% battery life improvement on a radio Experienced team of electronics designers and proven product and operational leadership Earned place on the ‘Inc. Magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies’ list, September, 2008 (#21 in the Energy sector; #468 overall) Featured in the Wall Street Journal and on Fox National Business News Featured in Prismark Partner’s 2009 Electronics Industry Report as one of nine “important new companies.” Developed strategic partnerships with market leading companies