Analog Devices Inc. Design Tools

LT SPICE

LT SPICE includes enhancements and models for easy simulation of analog circuits. This includes macro models, amplifiers, and a library of devices for general circuit simulation.

Amplifier and Linear Tools

ADI Precision Studio is a suite of web tools that helps in designing signal conditioning circuits much faster.

ADI DiffAMPCalc™ tool helps in designing differential amplifier circuits and reduces design time from hours to minutes. This tool features an interactive user interface and is easy to use.

Analog Filter Wizard features the designs of low-pass, high-pass, or band-pass filters with actual op-amps. This tool offers the characteristics of filter design from ideal specifications to real-world circuit behavior.

Analog Photodiode Wizard offers to design a trans-impedance amplifier circuit to interface with a photodiode.

Instrumentation Amplifier Diamond Plot Tool displays a comprehensive graph of output swing vs. input common-mode voltage, as well as all external and internal headroom limits.

Inamp Error Budget Analysis is a tool for estimating contributions in Analog Devices instrumentation amplifiers.

Op-Amp Error Budget Calculator is an online tool to illustrate the range, gain, and accuracy issues with an op-amp.

Power Dissipation vs Die Temp is a calculator for estimating junction temperature from power dissipation and packaging/heatsink characteristics.

Clock and Timing Tools

TimerBlox^® Designer tool comes with TimerBlox parts that are small, accurate, and simple timing devices. These timing devices are designed for five basic operations: Voltage-Controlled Oscillation (VCO), low-frequency clocking, Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM), one-shot generation, and signal delay.

ADIsimCLK™ is developed specifically for ultra-low jitter clock distribution and clock generation products. This tool is highly successful in predicting phase noise and jitter for clock products.

ADIsimDDS tool is used to select and evaluate the performance of a direct digital synthesis device and includes the impact of an external reconstruction filter.

ADIsimPLL™ design tool is a comprehensive and easy-to-use PLL synthesizer design and simulation tool.

Oscillator Configuration is a tool that assists in choosing an appropriate silicon oscillator.

Data Converter Tools

Visual Analog™ is a software package that combines a powerful set of simulation and data analysis tools with a user-friendly graphical interface.

Virtual Eval is a web application designed to assist designers in product evaluation of ADCs and DACs.

Precision ADC Driver Tool simulates the performance of a precision ADC and driver combinations. This tool also simulates and calculates the system noise, distortion, and settling of the ADC input.

Frequency Folding Tool illustrates the aliasing effects of an input signal and its harmonics when digitized by an ADC. This tool provides the selection of a single tone or a modulated carrier input signal and offers aliasing in up to ten Nyquist zones.

Sigma-Delta ADC Tutorial features an interactive illustration showing the behavior of an idealized sigma-delta A/D converter.

The SNR/THD/SINAD Calculator is a tool for computing RMS noise and the equivalent number of bits (ENOB) from SNR, THD, and SINAD data.

SPIController is a high-speed ADC program that allows the control of advanced features on high-speed and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with SPI capability.

Power Management Tools

LTpowerCAD^® & LTpowerPlanner^© is a complete power supply design tool program. This design tool significantly eases the tasks of power supply design with μModule regulators and other products. LTpowerPlanner features system-level power tree designs and optimizations.

LTpowerPlay^® is a powerful development environment to support Power System Management (PSM) products and includes PMBus Power System Managers and DC/DC Power converters with PSM.

Power Dissipation vs Die Temp is a calculator for estimating junction temperature from power dissipation and packaging/heatsink characteristics.

RF and Synthesis Tools

ADIsimPLL™ design tool features a comprehensive and easy-to-use PLL synthesizer. This tool provides simulation to all non-linear effects that impact PLL performance such as phase noise, fractional-N spurs, and anti-backlash pulse.

ADIsimRF™ is an easy-to-use RF signal chain calculator that provides calculation, plotting, and exporting of cascaded gain, noise, distortion, and power consumption up to 50x stages.

ADIsimCLK™ is a design tool developed for ultra-low jitter clock distribution and clock generation products.

ADIsimFrequency Planner Tool enables fast and accurate simulation and eliminates the integer boundary spurs from PLL synthesizers.

ADIsimDDS tool features mathematical equations to model and illustrate the overall performance of the selected device.

ADIsimSRD Design Studio offers the creation and optimization of short-range wireless systems.

RF Impedance Matching Calculator offers calculation of the network to match a line to a specific complex load.

VRMS/dBm/dBu/dBV calculator is a utility tool for converting between standard units of power measurement and signal strength.