Analog Quotations

Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.

Analog components don't 'scale' as well as digital components, but integrating them into relatively mature 28 nm platforms will accelerate the connection of everything from watches, personal healthcare, and home appliances to automotive, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, and industrial controls.

I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

Lamentably, alien audiences may be frustrated by the switch to digital television. That's because the transmitter power for DTV is fairly evenly spread across the spectrum. The spikiness is gone, and from afar, the attention-grabbing squeals of analog television's carriers have been replaced by DTV's smooth, low hiss.

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

Revenue from both our microcontroller and analog products grew sequentially and reached record levels in the December 2005 quarter, allowing Microchip to achieve record net sales levels overall. Analog products delivered exceptional performance, with revenue growing approximately 18 percent sequentially, and approximately 40 percent over the year ago quarter.

Led by robust analog and wireless sales, we had an outstanding quarter. Focus on execution drove our gross margins to 51 percent, up from 48 percent in the previous quarter.

Given the fast take-up rate, combined with subscriber satisfaction, which scores 25% higher than for the analog service, we are targeting 1 million homes to be subscribing to Sky Digital by October.

Based on recent positive statements about the pace of chip demand, made by analog peers active in the wireless markets, we anticipate similarly constructive statements from National Semiconductor.

Business conditions were stronger than we had originally anticipated. We reached our interim goal of 60 percent gross margin earlier than we expected and at the same time continued to gain market share in the analog standard linear market.

There is no direct analog to this in the traditional retail world. It seemed to us that firms had not figured out the 'right' shipping policy, so there's a lot of experimentation going on without clear guidelines.

Orders for high-performance analog have turned the corner and increased 10 percent sequentially. As things stand now, it appears that third quarter will mark the bottom for orders, and the floor for revenue should be set in the fourth quarter.

We ended the year with over a billion dollars in cash reserves, a 21 percent return on invested capital and a stronger analog portfolio. Our goal in fiscal 2006 is to drive gross margins even higher.

The profit margins in the analog area hold up much better than some chip companies that are more cyclical,

Tim embodies what we value in a mixed-signal designer -- expert level analog design coupled with an equally strong understanding of digital design and signal processing. Tim has consistently led the design of market-leading products and has also been instrumental in product conception. His work ethic, flexibility and willingness to embrace any challenge have set him apart for some time. It is with pleasure that we include this honor to Tim's long list of accomplishments.

We remain committed to our gross margin improvement goals that have us reaching 30 percent in 2006 and mid-30 percent in 2007. Our focus in 2006 is on improving our product mix, delivering more new leadership analog and integrated power products while reducing our exposure to lower margin standard products.

The converter only needs a power supply and some clocks. Feed it some audio analog and the device will do the conversion and output digital audio in the form of I2S or left justified depending on the part.

The real key to analog EDA 'automation' is to make analog designers work better together as human beings.

We think that communications applications (i.e., wireless handset, ADSL and cable) for DSP and analog chips could help Texas Instruments accelerate top- and bottom-line growth to between 20 percent and 30 percent per year.

We've constructed what we consider a micron-scale analog of an ox, ... These are 'micro-oxen,' a micro-scale beast of burden.

With the MCP4011, MCP4012, MCP4013, and MCP4014 digital potentiometers, Microchip continues to provide industry-leading, low-power analog products. These devices deliver the small package size and low power consumption that designers need for their applications, at a great value.

Wharton was my only choice to co-produce this project with me. I want to get back to my roots with this release and what's really cool is that we are actually using the same tape machine that we recorded our first two albums with. The whole thing is also going to be done in all analog to give it that classic Helmet sound. We're very excited about it.

We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.

We're in the analog business, and analog is what's driving all the displays, and audio, and battery life in wireless. Wireless is clearly our biggest segment, and we plan on this market doing exactly what it's been doing for the last three and a half years.

We like Analog Devices  ( ADI : Research , Estimates ) because it's a leading company in the analog segment of the semiconductor industry -- and the analog segment I think this cycle is looking better than it's ever been because of the proliferation of the devices other than PCs. So Analog is riding on that curve. They're the fastest-growing analog company in the last several quarters, and it also has better margin than it ever had in its history, as a public company.

We like Analog Devices Ê( ADI : Research , Estimates ) because it's a leading company in the analog segment of the semiconductor industry -- and the analog segment I think this cycle is looking better than it's ever been because of the proliferation of the devices other than PCs. So Analog is riding on that curve. They're the fastest-growing analog company in the last several quarters, and it also has better margin than it ever had in its history, as a public company.

Digital intermediate technology can provide the ultimate process for analog to digital restoration for both television and film libraries as it produces a single master file, enabling extraction and archival of all current, as well as future formats including internet and video on demand offerings. Use of digital intermediate technology rather than High Definition mastering for archival restoration also prevents the need for future restorations and further expenditures by our clients, helping to position Hollywood Intermediate to be a leader in end-to-end digital intermediate solutions.

Digital intermediate technology provides the ultimate process for analog to digital restoration for both television and film libraries as it produces a single master file, enabling extraction and archival of all current, as well as future formats including internet and video on demand offerings. Use of digital intermediate technology rather than High Definition mastering for archival restoration also prevents the need for future restorations and further expenditures by our clients, helping to position Hollywood Intermediate to be a leader in end-to-end digital intermediate solutions.

We don't see any reason that this will slow down anytime soon. The transition of entertainment from analog to digital, of time-shifting and place-shifting, is just getting under way.

Based on a composite of analyses, we are usually able to identify four or five analog years that had similar conditions during the first several months of the year, which helps us predict what the weather may be like in the fall and winter,

The top three are 'backup,' 'backup,' 'backup,' and the other seven don't matter. In addition to a BlackBerry, I carry a personal analog digital assistant. We're like the Boy Scouts, we're prepared.

As the build-out of broadband to the home gains momentum, our revenue from digital subscriber line and cable modem markets is rapidly moving toward critical mass, ... Our growth in wireless handsets is now being complemented by growth in an array of communications infrastructure equipment that use our catalog DSP and analog products.

We tested our model using known flow parameters and environmental conditions of perennial saline springs in the Mars analog environment of the Canadian High Arctic.

We have expectations that have been hatched under an analog environment that are under the threat of a new form of regulation.

Texas Instruments' decision to buy analog specialist Burr-Brown fits well with the company's stated objective of building its presence in the analog business. Despite the somewhat rich valuation for the deal, we think that the deal makes sense for TI. We reiterate our intermediate-term and long-term buy ratings for the stock.

Although one could argue that Analog Devices' upbeat outlook merits raising the number even further, we would prefer to wait and see how growth shapes up over the year as Analog Devices catches up with its backlog and the current feeding frenzy for Analog Devices products dissipates.

A major trend in security installations is the cost-effective integration of fiber optic cabling with copper-based cameras, servers and monitors. Transporting analog video over fiber optic cabling allows for extended surveillance reach and less noise and interference than can be obtained over copper infrastructure. We have also added automatic gain control on both the transmitter and the receiver to offer the customers better images without timely manual adjustments, a true customer benefit.

Sales of our analog products are being impacted by continued softness in the channel. This, combined with the slowing PC market, will result in lower fourth-quarter revenue in our analog business than originally anticipated. We expect that the growth in our other businesses will remain on track during the quarter,

tell patients that analog phones are certainly the safest. Whatever kind of phone you're using, it's best to avoid carrying it around turned on in your breast pocket.

First, we considered hybrid systems, but we found that many of those vendors were simply trying to put an IP mask over an analog system.

First silicon of our analog UWB chip stands as the culmination of a tremendous engineering effort. Receiving this chip on time for validation testing is a major step toward UWB commercialization. We look forward to receiving our digital chip and shipping evaluation kits to our customers.

You're able to perform really complex mathematics and therefore re-generate a different curve that might be impossible to do using analog techniques.

This is the first year where digital television will surpass the sales of analog television sets. Sixty-two percent of all televisions sold this year will be some form of digital television, and will account for 48.2 million sets shipped.

If there are 100 reasons not to make this information available, I got every one of them. We have received a proposal that clearly demonstrates that the DNI is living in the analog age while the rest of us are in the digital age. At this rate, my grandkids and great-grandkids will be the first ones to see this information. And I don't even have grandkids yet.

I'm pleased with another quarter of strong growth in which our core business revenues increased by 26 percent over last year's second quarter, led by 36 percent growth in analog sales.

As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the third quarter as distributors adjusted their backlog to balance inventory levels, ... Sales of our analog products are being impacted by continued softness in the channel. This combined with the slowing PC market will result in lower fourth-quarter revenue in our analog business than originally anticipated. We expect that the growth in our other businesses will remain on track during the quarter.

Their world is an analog world; it isn't digital. Electronic media of the future is clearly going to be digital. So you need to have digital in your DNA.

It will be interesting to see what kind of announcement they make prior to the day they shut analog off.

If you take a regular analog channel, go to 31, all you see is noise. It's really the digital picture, but it looks like noise.

Cable operators all around the country are trying to migrate their customers to digital so eventually . . . they can reclaim some of that analog bandwidth.

I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

I prefer recording drums in the analog format,but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.

The impact on the bottom line is going to be minimal in the short term. It has large existing businesses in the analog and wireless markets already.

The DRI350 performs HD Radio and AM/FM radio processing, such that if you lose the digital sidebands, you have the analog center channel to fall back on.

The draft appears to be in sync with industry consensus on both analog hole and broadcast flag and we look forward to working through the legislative process to get them enacted quickly.

The entrenched providers today will have to shut and write off that infrastructure as you have the transition from analog to digital. Current entrants in the market have a disconnect in their cost bases that new entrants don't have.

They had to compete and produce revenue from subscribers, so it's not just analog cable, it's digital cable. It's not digital cable, it's HDTV.

It makes a device, a digital sound processor that turns analog voice into numbers which then could be transmitted through fiber-optic cables and cell phones and any device like that. The growth of this is explosive.

This is why the Internet-phone industry is probably going to replace entirely what we might call loosely the analog method of phone calls over a period of years.

Combining an integrated analog audio path with customary automotive connectivity modules, this embedded product improves overall system optimization and faster turn-around time for National's customers,

Analog Devices ( ADI : Research , Estimates ) is like the junior Texas Instrument. Secondary position there, very good analog perspective and a lot of things related to the Internet and cellular phone, good well managed company.

Analog Devices makes digital chips that go into cell phones, and there's nothing more hot than that at the moment - you've got cellular phones, which, obviously the world wants to own, plus you've got the chips that go into these phones. These are really the places to be right now.

Analog has been around longer, so the networks are much more built out.