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Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« on: July 26, 2016, 09:56:27 pm »
And the acquisition carousel goes around and around...

Analog Devices buys Linear Technology for $14.8 billion
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-26/analog-devices-said-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-linear-technology
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2016, 12:35:42 am »
I suppose it makes them number 2 Analog Seller after TI and better able to compete against TI. This is assuming their offerings are really complementary.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2016, 12:41:16 am »
Maybe this is an answer to TI, who bought National semiconductor a while back and gained a massive amount on the market.
I do like products of AD and Linear, although they are bought a bit pricey.

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2016, 06:06:22 am »
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Will LT be absorbed into AD, or stay as a seperate company. Will that mean I can finally buy LT parts on mouser.
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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2016, 07:04:36 am »
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2016, 08:28:04 am »
So, here is a summary in the past year:
Freescale->NXP
Altera->Intel
Wolfspeed (CREE power device)->Infineon
LT->ADI
AMD (IPs)->various Chinese companies
ARM->Softbank
Hittite->ADI
Maxim->TI (cancelled)

I really wish TI can acquire Maxim.
You forgot more recent merges/splits:
NXP forks Nexperia
CSR -> Qualcomm
IR -> Infineon
Micrel -> Microchip
Atmel -> Dialog semiconductor (cancelled)
Atmel -> Microchip
WD -> Sandisk
Broadcom -> Avago

You still follow?
Me neither.

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2016, 08:36:55 am »
Wow. Like both, actually. Guess I'll have one less website to check in the future. Less work for me!  :-+

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2016, 11:12:51 am »
A good combination of two premier niche players. Synergy on marketing, engineering, back office and support functions, not to mention cross sale opportunities.

Terrible for users of their products.
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2016, 11:33:24 am »
The people that are affected the most with merges like this are employees. Business operations will be shuffled, locations will be shuffled, people will be fired/hired.

And customers of almost-eol products.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2016, 11:41:26 am »
"Probably years later we will see Intel (Acquires Qualcomm), "

Qualcomm will die because of huawei or some Chinese player. If that's the case, they are unlikely to have value to a desktop CPU maker like Intel, given how important the Chinese market is to them.

I can see it getting picked by armh / Softbank however.

"ADI (Acquires Cypress) "

Of the MCU companies, cypress is the most interesting because it is the most innovative, particularly on the software side. I can see they getting picked up by a large competitor whos weak on software. St,  NXP, or microchip. For example.
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Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2016, 11:43:00 am »
I wonder how Jim Williams would have felt about this? Speaking of which, I better download all his app notes before they all get updated with "Analog Devices" headers, or more likely, removed entirely.

I have a feeling we're about to lose a slew of very good op-amps (at least any ones that compete with AD's offerings). I also fear for the future of LT's voltage references. I imagine they won't kill off the LTZ1000, as it's the only thing going for high end meters, but the LM399? That's another story...

When I first read the news, my heart instantly sank and I really hoped it was 4-1...
« Last Edit: July 27, 2016, 04:02:50 pm by timb »
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2016, 11:45:54 am »
Don't forget Cypress

The most aggressive buyer on town

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2016, 11:57:55 am »
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I have a feeling we're about to lose a slew of very good op-amps
and maybe 16-bit A-D converters used in many software defined receivers. I hope not.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2016, 12:15:50 pm »
Kind of makes sense but Linear seemed to be more engineer lead and Analog more marketing, I hope that the Linear products keep coming and not killed off by the marketing department for not being as easy to market.
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2016, 12:38:29 pm »
Broadcom went to Cypress, IR went to INF loooong ago.
Avago bought Broadcom, and renamed itself to Broadcom. This June, Broadcom sold their "Wireless Internet of Things business" (WiFi, Bluetooth and Zigbee product lines) to Cypress.

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« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2016, 12:39:58 pm »
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2016, 12:41:16 pm »
Kind of makes sense but Linear seemed to be more engineer lead and Analog more marketing, I hope that the Linear products keep coming and not killed off by the marketing department for not being as easy to market.
Well, there isnt a lot of company which does this:
http://www.linear.com/solutions/7256
Most company is "yeah we made an LDO, whatever"
LT: We made a revolutionary LDO architechture, and here is our co-founder and CTO Bob, who will explain it to you. Also, check out our new application note with paint cans and Frankenstein tube amplifier powered SMPS.

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2016, 01:31:05 pm »
My Linear Technology databooks can now retire and hang out with my Precision Monolithic Incorporated databooks.

That is a shame about the web site; the AD web site is next to useless and even worse than the TI web site.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2016, 02:19:46 pm »
Kind of makes sense but Linear seemed to be more engineer lead and Analog more marketing, I hope that the Linear products keep coming and not killed off by the marketing department for not being as easy to market.
I agree. Linear Technology makes very nice chips. I just used one of their simple Li-ion charger in one of my designs. Two external components to set maximum charge time and charge current are all that is required to make it go. And it also outputs it's status as well.
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2016, 04:37:27 pm »
I like both of their products.  The nice thing about Linear is that you can call up an engineer and ask about technical issues.  TI and AD you have to go through a bloody forum.  AD makes some really precision products but I think the engineers are really held in high regard at Linear.  Their claim to fame was low drama at Linear.  Hope that doesn't go away.

 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2016, 04:51:09 pm »
My Linear Technology databooks can now retire and hang out with my Precision Monolithic Incorporated databooks.

That is a shame about the web site; the AD web site is next to useless and even worse than the TI web site.

This is what happens when executives that occasionally view a website (usually on a smart-phone), get control of the design of the website.  The vast majority of end-users of these websites are the engineers that are just trying to find the right part for a design they are working on, and they usually do this on a workstation with a larger screen.  So, you end up with a "pretty" website that is practically useless for engineers.  What they *should* do is ASK US what we want, instead of re-inventing the website and then shoving it in our faces.  I like TI parts, but their website has become damn near unusable, so I have been avoiding them since they changed to the "new improved look".  ADI is not far behind.  Linear's website is an engineer's dream.  I'm afraid that this is all going to change-- ADI is one to ruin things if they can.  They have been going downhill since their original founder died.  Oh well...

Back when paper databooks and datasheets ruled the world, I would make my own selection guides by including specifications and calculations based on specifications and measurements.  I have had to do less of that when using parts from certain manufacturers like LT, to a lessor extent TI, and not at all for AD simply based on the usability of their web site.  For AD and TI, I end up downloading all of the individual datasheets which might possibly contain a suitable part and doing it the old fashioned way.  The waste of time involved led me to use more LT parts.

I fear I am going to have to write off LT just like I wrote off ATMEL when Microchip acquired them.  In the past I wrote off PMI after AD acquired them but that was because of the drop in datasheet quality.  The very old AD datasheets and application notes were nice though and I still have them along with the ones from National.

James Burke said it best however.  If it is not on the internet, then it does not exist.

The current Tektronix web site is atrocious as well; I can no longer download their user manuals to find out if a product will do what I want.  A Tektronix representative has tried to contact me since then but based on previous experience, I see little point in discussing the issue with them.
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2016, 05:03:53 pm »
Oh well, time to backup their entire website. :o
And do some legacy mirror online ?
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2016, 05:51:56 pm »
Or opposite, that LTspice would be commercial ?  :-DD
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2016, 07:13:08 pm »
I like both of their products.  The nice thing about Linear is that you can call up an engineer and ask about technical issues.
[...]
There is the reason Linear parts are more expensive. Their datasheets and appnotes are also very good. Even for the accidental analog designer.

Earliers Linear published this:
http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/article/X54_EN-Analog.pdf
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« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2016, 07:18:41 pm »
I wonder how Jim Williams would have felt about this? Speaking of which, I better download all his app notes before they all get updated with "Analog Devices" headers, or more likely, removed entirely.
In the past I wrote off PMI after AD acquired them but that was because of the drop in datasheet quality.  The very old AD datasheets and application notes were nice though and I still have them along with the ones from National.
Oh well, time to backup their entire website. :o
And do some legacy mirror online ?

Bitsavers archives this sort of thing, might be worth taking a look if something is already there if you're thinking of doing the same.  Very little from Linear there unfortunately.

Shame they don't keep more datasheets and app notes, I would love to have a go-to place that doesn't add watermarks, extra pages, and other garbage.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2016, 07:29:14 pm »
I actually like the AD website it is very clean.  I really hate the TI website though and Linear's website is average.  Why do people hate the AD website so much?
 

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« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2016, 07:51:02 pm »
It is slow and not much information visible at first sight.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #27 on: July 27, 2016, 08:16:46 pm »
Well crap.  And yes the ADI website is terrible.  The old one was much more information rich.
 

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« Reply #28 on: July 27, 2016, 09:24:31 pm »
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« Reply #29 on: July 27, 2016, 11:54:53 pm »
At least it's my #1 and #2 preferred vendors merging, with not a Maxim or Microchip in sight. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. Both companies have been historically strong in many of the same areas, so there's potentially a lot to lose if management starts really swinging the axe (and you know they will, it's only a question of where and how hard). I can hope though, that things might turn out okay, as NSC and TI merging more or less did.

I think the best thing to watch is new product introductions. As long as the shiny new toys keep coming, we'll be fine. What's interesting is how ADI products and LTC products differ a bit in approach. ADI has for a while had best-in-class ADCs and amplifiers, usually edging out LTC on specs (though of course not always). LTC products, on the other hand, simply do things no one else can do. It's easy to be top of the class when you're the only one who can do it at all! Both companies typically pursue higher specs and higher margins than, say, TI, who do anything and everything at a reasonable price but are rarely best of breed.
 

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« Reply #30 on: July 28, 2016, 04:08:03 am »
everybody get ready for scopes to go up in price!

Fortunately I only have a few LT parts in our current designs, and none of them are part critical. Just a couple of voltage boosters. Nothing I cant find from another vendor if those numbers get cut loose.  The only part I am screed on if it goes away is the Maxim MAX4460 as ts the only part of its type with low enough power draw and fast enough time to operation that we can turn it on, turn on the ADC and have a good signal to sample when the ADC is ready to go and them shut it off (battery powered application with a high sample rate)
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« Reply #31 on: July 28, 2016, 04:41:29 am »
:( After all that volt-nuttery I'm sorta become fanboy of LT parts and their clean and easy to use site.
Will we see AD labelled LTZ1000's in couple years? I bet that will revive LTZ1000 thread in Metrology section for another 50 pages or so  :scared:.

Probably site is not an issue for enterprise customers though, as those guys get direct FAE support and don't even need to see the websites :)
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« Reply #32 on: July 28, 2016, 04:47:45 pm »
:( After all that volt-nuttery I'm sorta become fanboy of LT parts and their clean and easy to use site.
Will we see AD labelled LTZ1000's in couple years? I bet that will revive LTZ1000 thread in Metrology section for another 50 pages or so  :scared:.

Probably site is not an issue for enterprise customers though, as those guys get direct FAE support and don't even need to see the websites :)

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« Reply #33 on: July 28, 2016, 05:46:25 pm »
No, the linear parts as they exist will always be LTxxxx. Anything new will be AD(ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)xxxx.

Yep, Analog Devices did the same thing with the PMI part numbers after acquiring them.  Doing otherwise just invites confusion.  TI did the same thing after purchasing Burr-Brown and National.  I would not expect any new LT parts however and a continuing program of obsolescence with recommended AD replacements seems likely which is sad since LT makes some uniquely useful parts.

Seems like an odd coincidence that National and Linear Technology were both purchased by competitors shortly after Robert Pease and Jim Williams died.
 

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« Reply #34 on: July 28, 2016, 06:08:25 pm »
consolidation wave is not over yet .... there's 2 more in the works ...
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« Reply #35 on: July 28, 2016, 07:17:01 pm »
consolidation wave is not over yet .... there's 2 more in the works ...

I have a strange feeling ST is going to do something, or have something done to them.
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #36 on: July 28, 2016, 09:23:35 pm »
Seems like an odd coincidence that National and Linear Technology were both purchased by competitors shortly after Robert Pease and Jim Williams died.

Let's see. ADI:
-Pushed Ray Stata to a board level ornament.
-"Retired" Moshe Gershtaber (SP?)
-"Retired" Lou Counts
..and is pushing a few other 'fathers of industry' out the door...

 

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« Reply #37 on: July 28, 2016, 10:02:27 pm »
This is great news, especially if they keep the LT sales and applications people.
Wow....precision Analog from ADI with the power offering from LT. No more sucky opamps from LT and decent ADCs from ADI

What I want to know is : When will Maxim succumb to the acquisition gods and who will buy them? Then my life will be complete

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #38 on: July 28, 2016, 11:07:43 pm »
This is great news, especially if they keep the LT sales and applications people.
Wow....precision Analog from ADI with the power offering from LT. No more sucky opamps from LT and decent ADCs from ADI

What I want to know is : When will Maxim succumb to the acquisition gods and who will buy them? Then my life will be complete

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Sucky op-amps from LT? Hah, I don't know what datasheets you've been reading, but...
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #39 on: July 28, 2016, 11:43:48 pm »

Sucky op-amps from LT? Hah, I don't know what datasheets you've been reading, but...

Well... he is looking forward to someone picking up Maxim...
 

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« Reply #40 on: July 29, 2016, 07:43:08 am »

Sucky op-amps from LT? Hah, I don't know what datasheets you've been reading, but...

Well... he is looking forward to someone picking up Maxim...

Its a matter of opinion, but depending on requirements sometimes its hard to beat TI/burr brown and Nationals process. Also ADI have some amazing parts. That said, LT by their own admission are not the industry leader in making the best performing parts like opamps. I have been an analog design engineer for over 30 years and even my good friend Jim Williams told me over lunch, several times that LT sucks at opamps.They certainly have an amazing Power lineup and they are proud of that. Its the power stuff ADI wanted.

Also, Maxim makes some amazing stuff and I would love to spec something in after 25 years, but if you know anything at all about their technology and their business model  you would also wish that someone would buy them.

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #41 on: July 29, 2016, 08:03:04 am »

Sucky op-amps from LT? Hah, I don't know what datasheets you've been reading, but...

Well... he is looking forward to someone picking up Maxim...

Its a matter of opinion, but depending on requirements sometimes its hard to beat TI/burr brown and Nationals process. Also ADI have some amazing parts. That said, LT by their own admission are not the industry leader in making the best performing parts like opamps. I have been an analog design engineer for over 30 years and even my good friend Jim Williams told me over lunch, several times that LT sucks at opamps.They certainly have an amazing Power lineup and they are proud of that. Its the power stuff ADI wanted.

Also, Maxim makes some amazing stuff and I would love to spec something in after 25 years, but if you know anything at all about their technology and their business model  you would also wish that someone would buy them.

@grouchobyte
IDK, I've always placed LT opamps the same place, or higher than TI aor AD parts (Maxim ignored, others not even the ballpark) Now, they dont have fancy laser trimmed opamps and the zero drift parts are not the best (2057 huge exception). My biggest issue is the complete lack of instrumentation amplifiers from LT, at least the ones worth mentioning.
But they have 150V PSU opamp, power opamp to 2A, high voltage zero drift ones, they actually still release differential amplifiers... Maybe it is the last few years, but they have been pretty good at it.
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #42 on: July 29, 2016, 12:39:57 pm »

Sucky op-amps from LT? Hah, I don't know what datasheets you've been reading, but...

Well... he is looking forward to someone picking up Maxim...

Its a matter of opinion, but depending on requirements sometimes its hard to beat TI/burr brown and Nationals process. Also ADI have some amazing parts. That said, LT by their own admission are not the industry leader in making the best performing parts like opamps. I have been an analog design engineer for over 30 years and even my good friend Jim Williams told me over lunch, several times that LT sucks at opamps.They certainly have an amazing Power lineup and they are proud of that. Its the power stuff ADI wanted.

Also, Maxim makes some amazing stuff and I would love to spec something in after 25 years, but if you know anything at all about their technology and their business model  you would also wish that someone would buy them.

@grouchobyte
IDK, I've always placed LT opamps the same place, or higher than TI aor AD parts (Maxim ignored, others not even the ballpark) Now, they dont have fancy laser trimmed opamps and the zero drift parts are not the best (2057 huge exception). My biggest issue is the complete lack of instrumentation amplifiers from LT, at least the ones worth mentioning.
But they have 150V PSU opamp, power opamp to 2A, high voltage zero drift ones, they actually still release differential amplifiers... Maybe it is the last few years, but they have been pretty good at it.


Agreed.......there are several special function LT parts that are unique and have used them successfully over the years in my designs. But overall, the datasheets are chock full of errors and hidden gotchas ( more than the competition), some important parameters  are spec'd typical and the notes reveal potential snafus that usually bring WTF angst down the road. I have to spend much more time vetting an LT part then I do any other, simply because of the inconsistently written data sheets. At LT, the design engineer writes the data sheet and thus the inconsistency. Also, LT parts almost always cost more then their competitors.

I don't hate LT, I just find their parts have too many interesting quirks which I consider "sucky" , especially their generic "me too" opamps.

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« Reply #43 on: July 29, 2016, 12:42:23 pm »
Its a matter of opinion, but depending on requirements sometimes its hard to beat TI/burr brown and Nationals process. Also ADI have some amazing parts. That said, LT by their own admission are not the industry leader in making the best performing parts like opamps. I have been an analog design engineer for over 30 years and even my good friend Jim Williams told me over lunch, several times that LT sucks at opamps.They certainly have an amazing Power lineup and they are proud of that. Its the power stuff ADI wanted.

Also, Maxim makes some amazing stuff and I would love to spec something in after 25 years, but if you know anything at all about their technology and their business model  you would also wish that someone would buy them.

@grouchobyte

I'm mostly poking fun. Maxim does make some amazing parts. Their sample program was (past tense as I've not touched them after getting burnt too often) fantastic. But once I did a design or two around them, and finding stock was non-existent, it makes no difference how great they are when I can't get them. :)

 
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« Reply #44 on: July 29, 2016, 12:56:45 pm »
Its a matter of opinion, but depending on requirements sometimes its hard to beat TI/burr brown and Nationals process. Also ADI have some amazing parts. That said, LT by their own admission are not the industry leader in making the best performing parts like opamps. I have been an analog design engineer for over 30 years and even my good friend Jim Williams told me over lunch, several times that LT sucks at opamps.They certainly have an amazing Power lineup and they are proud of that. Its the power stuff ADI wanted.

Also, Maxim makes some amazing stuff and I would love to spec something in after 25 years, but if you know anything at all about their technology and their business model  you would also wish that someone would buy them.

@grouchobyte

I'm mostly poking fun. Maxim does make some amazing parts. Their sample program was (past tense as I've not touched them after getting burnt too often) fantastic. But once I did a design or two around them, and finding stock was non-existent, it makes no difference how great they are when I can't get them. :)



Everyone or almost everyone I know has been burned by Maxim. Wouldn't it be great, if for example, we  could get exemplary sales and apps support that we now enjoy W/ LT  only with my Maxim's silicon?

Now that is an idea worth dreaming about. :-/O

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« Reply #45 on: July 29, 2016, 01:28:55 pm »
Please just rebrand the Linear website to be AD, rather than keeping the rubbish site and trashing the good one.

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I should make that prototype with LT parts or not.
 
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« Reply #46 on: July 29, 2016, 01:29:46 pm »

Sucky op-amps from LT? Hah, I don't know what datasheets you've been reading, but...

Well... he is looking forward to someone picking up Maxim...

Its a matter of opinion, but depending on requirements sometimes its hard to beat TI/burr brown and Nationals process. Also ADI have some amazing parts. That said, LT by their own admission are not the industry leader in making the best performing parts like opamps. I have been an analog design engineer for over 30 years and even my good friend Jim Williams told me over lunch, several times that LT sucks at opamps.They certainly have an amazing Power lineup and they are proud of that. Its the power stuff ADI wanted.

Also, Maxim makes some amazing stuff and I would love to spec something in after 25 years, but if you know anything at all about their technology and their business model  you would also wish that someone would buy them.

@grouchobyte
IDK, I've always placed LT opamps the same place, or higher than TI aor AD parts (Maxim ignored, others not even the ballpark) Now, they dont have fancy laser trimmed opamps and the zero drift parts are not the best (2057 huge exception). My biggest issue is the complete lack of instrumentation amplifiers from LT, at least the ones worth mentioning.
But they have 150V PSU opamp, power opamp to 2A, high voltage zero drift ones, they actually still release differential amplifiers... Maybe it is the last few years, but they have been pretty good at it.

Their high voltage 140V and high current 2A op-amps were precisely what I was thinking of. They also make a couple of very good, absurdly low input bias current amps. They even have a high voltage, low input bias part! (Capable of being used as a electrometer grade buffer for a DMM.)

I think LT is the only company doing an affordable "high voltage" op-amp (outside of an old National part). Apex has plenty of HV parts, going up to 1kV in fact, but they're insanely expensive (well over $100/ea).
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« Reply #47 on: July 29, 2016, 02:00:10 pm »
I hope LT website stays as it is (highly unlikely), I hate dealing with AD's website for the past several years, it was once a great website..

I also hope LT Spice stays and all AD parts get incorporated in.
 

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« Reply #48 on: July 29, 2016, 04:01:17 pm »
http://www.linear.com/product/LTC6090

I used this LT part in a recent Mach Zhander interferometer fiber sensing project to drive a piezo fiber stretcher. Nothing like it anywhere. This is certainly not part of the sucky group of opamps I was referring to in a earlier post

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« Reply #49 on: July 30, 2016, 08:50:59 pm »
I hope LT website stays as it is (highly unlikely), I hate dealing with AD's website for the past several years, it was once a great website..

I also hope LT Spice stays and all AD parts get incorporated in.
Same here, that's the main reasons I barely use ADs website.
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« Reply #50 on: July 31, 2016, 12:06:26 am »
Please just rebrand the Linear website to be AD, rather than keeping the rubbish site and trashing the good one.

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I should make that prototype with LT parts or not.

Yes, I have a design in the schematic stage right now with an LT switcher in it. I could ask the FAE or the sales guy about it, but the veracity of their information would be at the noise level at this point.
 

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« Reply #51 on: July 31, 2016, 01:11:59 am »
I do not have any problems with ADI (new and old), TI (new and old), Maxim (new and old) and LT websites, and I seriously think if one can not accommodate changes in web UI, how can one accommodate to the daily evolving electronics business?

The ADI and TI and Maxim web sites have two problems: at least in my case they usually do not provide the right selection data that I am interested in but more importantly, they are incredibly slow.  The LT site is not fast by any means but at least it does not waste my time.

These web sites perform so poorly that it is faster for me to download lots of datasheets, pour through them manually, and make my own selection table.  In the case of TI's, it often leaves older parts off.
 

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« Reply #52 on: July 31, 2016, 02:33:47 am »
Hi

Here's another one to be concerned about:

If you are doing something in small volume, LT would sell you parts direct. Try to get a handful of high(ish) speed ADC's from LT and ADI. They are quite competitive with each other in larger volumes. Go to the "build a few prototypes" end of the scale .... ADI gets very expensive.

We'll see how that one shakes out.

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« Reply #53 on: July 31, 2016, 03:49:43 am »
The ADI and TI and Maxim web sites have two problems: at least in my case they usually do not provide the right selection data that I am interested in but more importantly, they are incredibly slow.  The LT site is not fast by any means but at least it does not waste my time.

These web sites perform so poorly that it is faster for me to download lots of datasheets, pour through them manually, and make my own selection table.  In the case of TI's, it often leaves older parts off.

When you know the part number, google becomes the new "website" for a lot of these vendors.

As to small volume sales, those will go away. Everything will get sucked into the ADI SAP system.
 

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« Reply #54 on: July 31, 2016, 08:52:33 pm »
Well about the who's next. There are rumors Qualcomm and NXP are going on a date.
 

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« Reply #55 on: July 31, 2016, 08:55:29 pm »
When you know the part number, google becomes the new "website" for a lot of these vendors.

As to small volume sales, those will go away. Everything will get sucked into the ADI SAP system.
Ah, they have SAP. Good for them.  :--
 

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« Reply #56 on: August 02, 2016, 08:15:54 am »
I hope they keep the LT application notes online, those are so valuable for engineers.
 

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« Reply #57 on: August 02, 2016, 08:18:03 am »
I hope they keep the LT application notes online, those are so valuable for engineers.
We should backup them while they are still there. Probably keep a hard copy printed. And one on microfilms in a lead box in a nuclear bunker.

mod... It is 147 MB.
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« Reply #58 on: August 02, 2016, 10:54:16 am »
So true, I backed up something valuable few times and a good choice it was. It vanished.

And always backup your favourite videos on YT. You want them to watch again after months and they are not there anymore.
 

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« Reply #59 on: August 02, 2016, 11:50:03 am »
I do not have any problems with ADI (new and old), TI (new and old), Maxim (new and old) and LT websites, and I seriously think if one can not accommodate changes in web UI, how can one accommodate to the daily evolving electronics business?

I think it has more to do with people being annoyed having web sites changed all the time. If it aint broke don't try to fix it.

It seems to be a software related thing, changing the UI, change the way things look, add features no one asked for in the first place, don't fix bugs that should be fixed. Stuff like that can make one wonder what de real purpose of all this is.

Having an up to date look and lots of eye candy doesn't make up for a bad user experience imo.
 

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« Reply #60 on: August 02, 2016, 12:17:36 pm »
I do not have any problems with ADI (new and old), TI (new and old), Maxim (new and old) and LT websites, and I seriously think if one can not accommodate changes in web UI, how can one accommodate to the daily evolving electronics business?

I think it has more to do with people being annoyed having web sites changed all the time. If it aint broke don't try to fix it.

It seems to be a software related thing, changing the UI, change the way things look, add features no one asked for in the first place, don't fix bugs that should be fixed. Stuff like that can make one wonder what de real purpose of all this is.

Having an up to date look and lots of eye candy doesn't make up for a bad user experience imo.
It has more to do with the website usefulness. The old Maxim website was terrible, the recent one is good. Analog went from OK to bad. TI made huge improvements, the online datasheet is just awesome. It is the difficulty to reach the information. I talked with AD support engineers, they said themselves that the new website is terrible.
 

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« Reply #61 on: August 02, 2016, 10:38:22 pm »
I hope they keep the LT application notes online, those are so valuable for engineers.
We should backup them while they are still there. Probably keep a hard copy printed. And one on microfilms in a lead box in a nuclear bunker.

mod... It is 147 MB.

I have all of their paper databooks and application books which include useful articles which are *not* available online.

I had most of their online application notes and some of their design notes but now I have them all except for DN416 and a couple of the later application notes which apparently never existed.  Those plus design solutions add up to ... about 239 MB so far.

I am going to grab the LT Magazines next as they also have useful articles.  At some point I will scan the missing articles which were only available in their paper application books and hold them for ransom for 1 million dollars.  >:D
 

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« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2016, 10:39:45 pm »
I think it has more to do with people being annoyed having web sites changed all the time. If it aint broke don't try to fix it.

Change I could live with but every change they make makes the web sites less reliable and slower.
 

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« Reply #63 on: August 03, 2016, 12:41:10 am »
I do not have any problems with ADI (new and old), TI (new and old), Maxim (new and old) and LT websites, and I seriously think if one can not accommodate changes in web UI, how can one accommodate to the daily evolving electronics business?

I think it has more to do with people being annoyed having web sites changed all the time. If it aint broke don't try to fix it.

It seems to be a software related thing, changing the UI, change the way things look, add features no one asked for in the first place, don't fix bugs that should be fixed. Stuff like that can make one wonder what de real purpose of all this is.

Having an up to date look and lots of eye candy doesn't make up for a bad user experience imo.
Breaking up OPAMPS into arbitrary "types" so you can't do a parametric search across their entire range... fail.
 

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« Reply #64 on: August 05, 2016, 02:28:42 pm »
Don't forget Cypress

The most aggressive buyer on town

Broadcom

That's somewhat misleading. Cypress didn't buy Broadcom, Avago did. Cypress bought some of Broadcom's wireless assets. Avago has a history of buying companies (LSI, Broadcom) and then selling off bits and pieces of the companies they acquire.
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« Reply #65 on: August 05, 2016, 06:53:19 pm »
A quick question for all you guys that hate ADI's website- Have you told anyone at ADI about your frustrations with using the search tools?

When I worked there, the web guys and the Field App guys were very interested in making the site useful.  They took input willingly from everybody - especially engineers.  I've been gone a few years, but with the web being a central point nowadays, I can't believe that if all you dissatisfied folks expressed your frustration, ADI would ignore it.  The web presence is just too valuable these days to intentionally piss folks off.

Just a thought...
 

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« Reply #66 on: August 05, 2016, 07:37:32 pm »
Then they should not have changed it in the first place. AD, ST etc used to have well functioning web interfaces, then they started to dick a round multiple times.. Dont see the point of customers have to tell them they fucked it up. Yet again a management problem, as always. >:(
 

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« Reply #67 on: August 05, 2016, 08:48:47 pm »
For those of you downloading all of the LT notes if you compiled them onto a file on dropbox that would be sweet!

 

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« Reply #68 on: August 06, 2016, 05:30:27 am »
For those of you downloading all of the LT notes if you compiled them onto a file on dropbox that would be sweet!

I will no doubt do that and include nice scans of the articles which are only available on paper but have no projected time to completion.  Currently I edit the file names to be more descriptive while watching a movie but I estimate that I am lots of movies away from being completed and the current rate of new Hollywood movies worth watching is low.
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« Reply #69 on: August 06, 2016, 06:18:45 am »
When I worked there, the web guys and the Field App guys were very interested in making the site useful.  They took input willingly from everybody - especially engineers

What ADI need to understand - and this may be a surprise to them - that engineering is not done on smartphones. I really doubt engineers would say - hey i want that stupid carousel banner on the front page and please make it huge to make sure the useful stuff can not be easily found.
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« Reply #70 on: August 06, 2016, 10:33:18 am »
I remember talking to one application engineer (somebody from austrian site) on ADI seminar. I told him that I like ADI products, but I don't use them, because their web is harsh and I prefer LT instead.
He agreed with me and he dislike their new web too.

Could Dave make some video about websites ? I would love to hear some rant about useless webs from Dave, rather than pointless videos about free energy and solar roadways (waste of time making it and watching it).
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« Reply #71 on: August 06, 2016, 11:56:11 am »
For those of you downloading all of the LT notes if you compiled them onto a file on dropbox that would be sweet!
Put them in a torrent. That way you don't exceed Dropbox share limit.
 

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« Reply #72 on: August 07, 2016, 12:23:43 am »
Then they should not have changed it in the first place. AD, ST etc used to have well functioning web interfaces, then they started to dick a round multiple times.. Dont see the point of customers have to tell them they fucked it up. Yet again a management problem, as always. >:(
Wow! You're absolutely right.  The concept of customer feedback is clearly inapplicable.  I can see that a more rational method would be to assume that the web designers will magically intuit how someone may or may not want to use the site.  I totally agree that the reasonable, effective approach of pissing, moaning and complaining about it rather than taking initiative by providing constructive criticism that may result in improvement is ingenious.  It's an exemplary plan.  Let us hope that the nebulous, non-sentient entity known as "management" does not thwart this enviable construct.

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« Reply #73 on: August 07, 2016, 01:56:52 am »
Wow! You're absolutely right.  The concept of customer feedback is clearly inapplicable.  I can see that a more rational method would be to assume that the web designers will magically intuit how someone may or may not want to use the site.  I totally agree that the reasonable, effective approach of pissing, moaning and complaining about it rather than taking initiative by providing constructive criticism that may result in improvement is ingenious.  It's an exemplary plan.  Let us hope that the nebulous, non-sentient entity known as "management" does not thwart this enviable construct.

I tried that but Steve told me I was holding it wrong and that skeuomorphic interfaces were the future.
 

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« Reply #74 on: August 07, 2016, 02:11:46 am »

When I worked there, the web guys and the Field App guys were very interested in making the site useful.  They took input willingly from everybody - especially engineers.  I've been gone a few years, but with the web being a central point nowadays, I can't believe that if all you dissatisfied folks expressed your frustration, ADI would ignore it.  The web presence is just too valuable these days to intentionally piss folks off.


Which site did you work at? Internally the site has had the piss taken out of it by everyone not of mid-level management.
 

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« Reply #75 on: August 08, 2016, 03:28:42 pm »
Could Dave make some video about websites ? I would love to hear some rant about useless webs from Dave, rather than pointless videos about free energy and solar roadways (waste of time making it and watching it).

This could be a very interesting and dynamic topic. There are all sorts of competing interests, and many ideas about what constitutes best practices as they apply for the various interested parties.

For instance, I tend to use Digi-Key for searching for parts, instead of the manufacturer web sites. If I need to search for parts not on Digi-Key then I look at the specific sites, but some clearly are easier to use. For me the worst are those that require a big recomputation when one small change to the parameters is done, and everything is run through some kind of local Java applet.

It seems that a lot of Chinese and Taiwanese web sites have a sketchy feeling to them, while German web sites are difficult to search and navigate. (Phoenix, Turck).

Eventually my part lists get run through a web site to check on lifetime and supplier status. This drives a somewhat iterative process of narrowing in on functionality vs. availability.
 

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« Reply #76 on: August 08, 2016, 04:52:44 pm »
If you make super thin margin, you won't bother make a pretty website. After all, cheap manufacturers usually have very specific, stable, targeted customers that only cares about quality and cost. Easy to use and engineer friendly are not important in mass volume productions as long as quality and cost benefits can be justified.

Easy to use and engineer friendly are also not important when marketing gets ahold of the web site and turns it into a pretty sales brochure without content.  If you need technical documentation, then they are not interested in selling to you.

I think TI plays the dark interface game.  They have too many older parts which never show up in their selection guides but which can be found if you search for the part number.  That strikes me as a way for sales to drive unknowing customers to more expensive parts.  That may be shrewd, but it also means they cannot be trusted which is hardly new with TI.
 
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« Reply #77 on: August 08, 2016, 10:45:29 pm »
Wow! You're absolutely right.  The concept of customer feedback is clearly inapplicable.  I can see that a more rational method would be to assume that the web designers will magically intuit how someone may or may not want to use the site.  I totally agree that the reasonable, effective approach of pissing, moaning and complaining about it rather than taking initiative by providing constructive criticism that may result in improvement is ingenious.  It's an exemplary plan.  Let us hope that the nebulous, non-sentient entity known as "management" does not thwart this enviable construct.
Cheers
Good grief, you are from the hipster generation!

One point i could imagine but im to tired to right now is "reinvention of web interfaces is to lure new clueless customers they improved while old timers know how things was in the past=better.  Nor is there such thing as a "free wheeling web designers" that can do whatever interface they want at the fot of a elephant, they are all under the marketing department dictates at the top of the elephant.

ST for example, everyone who deal with ST knows their forum engine is utter crap, and everyone have constructively complained and suggested tons of ideas "for years". Now do ST web designers listen? No! why? Because the marketing department "say so". Yet ST used to have a well working forum engine "for years". Now, why did they screw up? Who's fault was it? And most fun of all is the ST people who maintain the crap is also pissed we have been told and want it go away. So i will give you 10 dullars if you go to ST and can make them change, if you cant you owe me 100dullars!

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The web presence is just too valuable these days to intentionally piss folks off.
And yet they do over and over and over and you cant figure it out, how peculiar!

Bad web interfaces, bad data sheets, poor product, yadda, yadda, yadda etc, etc, we all are affected by it on a daily basis from ........insert mfg.....you suggest that 500million engineers should join in gigantic group hug and go bombard ...insert mfg......with constructive complaints?
You must be crazzzzy, i rather spend my time to actually design and engineer, i dont have time to point out "obviousness" to a elephant!

Im also all in for Dave go ape over mfg web interfaces from a engineering perspective.
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« Reply #78 on: August 15, 2016, 01:57:32 am »
While we are on the topic of website bashing... I really hate how when I click on view datasheet it takes me to another webpage where I have to click some more text for it to actually show me the datasheet PDF....  ADI and LTC are both better in that respect.
 

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Hi group,

The day has arrived:



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How long before one of the names is taken down?
 

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« Reply #81 on: March 10, 2017, 08:13:38 pm »
Why does ADI need regulatory approval from a Chinese regulator?
 

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« Reply #82 on: March 10, 2017, 09:38:32 pm »
Hi,

You have to get regulatory approval for all the major markets that you sell into. This is anti-trust, monopolies type stuff.

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« Reply #83 on: March 10, 2017, 11:06:35 pm »
For those of you downloading all of the LT notes if you compiled them onto a file on dropbox that would be sweet!

If you have linux you can run this to download all the Application Notes in the website. It's only 165Mb.

wget -qk http://www.linear.com/designtools/app_notes.php -O linear.html && cat linear.html | grep -o '<a .*href=.*>' | sed -e 's/<a/\n<a/g' | sed -e 's/<a .*href=['"'"'"]//' -e 's/["'"'"'].*$//' -e '/^$/ d' | grep 'docs' > dwnlst.txt && wget -i dwnlst.txt

 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #84 on: March 10, 2017, 11:16:00 pm »
I don't like seeing these buy outs but seems to happen in every industry these days.   Capitalism at work.

 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #85 on: March 10, 2017, 11:18:20 pm »
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wget -qk [url=http://www.linear.com/designtools/app_notes.php]http://www.linear.com/designtools/app_notes.php[/url] -O linear.html && cat linear.html | grep -o '<a .*href=.*>' | sed -e 's/<a/\n<a/g' | sed -e 's/<a .*href=['"'"'"]//' -e 's/["'"'"'].*$//' -e '/^$/ d' | grep 'docs' > dwnlst.txt && wget -i dwnlst.txtToo bad it omits the ".pdf" and the actual filename.
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #86 on: March 10, 2017, 11:23:54 pm »
For those of you downloading all of the LT notes if you compiled them onto a file on dropbox that would be sweet!

If you have linux you can run this to download all the Application Notes in the website. It's only 165Mb.

wget -qk http://www.linear.com/designtools/app_notes.php -O linear.html && cat linear.html | grep -o '<a .*href=.*>' | sed -e 's/<a/\n<a/g' | sed -e 's/<a .*href=['"'"'"]//' -e 's/["'"'"'].*$//' -e '/^$/ d' | grep 'docs' > dwnlst.txt && wget -i dwnlst.txt

Brilliant! I have a Linux NAS box and the App Notes are downloading perfectly. Thanks!
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #87 on: March 11, 2017, 02:09:25 am »
Too bad it omits the ".pdf" and the actual filename.

Oops!! I'm sorry. Perhaps I posted too soon. This command will rename all files in a folder.

Attention: Make sure that there are no other files that you don't want to rename in the folder where you've downloaded the files and get inside the folder with: cd "folder name" without quotes.

This is a massive rename command. Please check everything first.

rename 's/$/.pdf/' *
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #88 on: March 11, 2017, 07:26:25 am »
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The day has arrived:
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What a shame!  :(
LT made very good products.
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #89 on: March 13, 2017, 12:30:45 am »
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wget -qk [url=http://www.linear.com/designtools/app_notes.php]http://www.linear.com/designtools/app_notes.php[/url] -O linear.html && cat linear.html | grep -o '<a .*href=.*>' | sed -e 's/<a/\n<a/g' | sed -e 's/<a .*href=['"'"'"]//' -e 's/["'"'"'].*$//' -e '/^$/ d' | grep 'docs' > dwnlst.txt && wget -i dwnlst.txtToo bad it omits the ".pdf" and the actual filename.

I'm sorry for the delay. I've found a better URL to parse. This command creates a download script called linear.sh. You need to execute it only one time. Then you only need to execute linear.sh as many times you want to download the app notes.

It downloads the application notes with their real file name and also takes their tittle for the final file name.

wget isn't very friendly for bulk downloading and rename the output at the same time.

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wget -k http://www.linear.com/designtools/doc_list.php?dt=2 -O /tmp/linear.txt && cat /tmp/linear.txt | grep  -o 'href=.*docs.*</a>' | sed -e 's/href="/wget /' -e 's/"//' -e 's/>/ -O "/' -e 's/<[^>]\+>//g' -e 's/$/.pdf"/' > linear.sh && bash linear.sh
I hope you like it
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #90 on: March 13, 2017, 01:18:00 am »
I just bit the bullet and renamed all the files:
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #91 on: March 13, 2017, 11:23:10 am »
I just bit the bullet and renamed all the files:

You didn't know for sure if I would post something better.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #92 on: March 13, 2017, 11:54:08 am »
I just bit the bullet and renamed all the files:

You didn't know for sure if I would post something better.
It would have been smarter to wait another day. A pretty clever command line.
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #93 on: March 13, 2017, 07:04:19 pm »
I'm sorry for the delay. I've found a better URL to parse. This command creates a download script called linear.sh. You need to execute it only one time. Then you only need to execute linear.sh as many times you want to download the app notes.

It downloads the application notes with their real file name and also takes their tittle for the final file name.
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wget -k http://www.linear.com/designtools/doc_list.php?dt=2 -O /tmp/linear.txt && cat /tmp/linear.txt | grep  -o 'href=.*docs.*</a>' | sed -e 's/href="/wget /' -e 's/"//' -e 's/>/ -O "/' -e 's/<[^>]\+>//g' -e 's/$/.pdf"/' > linear.sh && bash linear.sh
Kudo's for you.
Cygwin (windows) can run it too.
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #94 on: March 18, 2017, 02:42:02 am »
I was very glad to see that ADI is not going to abandon LTSPICE, they are adding ADI parts to it which is nice.  One of the best free SPICE programs out there (if not the best).

 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #95 on: March 24, 2017, 09:00:34 am »
I'm sorry for the delay. I've found a better URL to parse. This command creates a download script called linear.sh. You need to execute it only one time. Then you only need to execute linear.sh as many times you want to download the app notes.

It downloads the application notes with their real file name and also takes their tittle for the final file name.

wget isn't very friendly for bulk downloading and rename the output at the same time.

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wget -k http://www.linear.com/designtools/doc_list.php?dt=2 -O /tmp/linear.txt && cat /tmp/linear.txt | grep  -o 'href=.*docs.*</a>' | sed -e 's/href="/wget /' -e 's/"//' -e 's/>/ -O "/' -e 's/<[^>]\+>//g' -e 's/$/.pdf"/' > linear.sh && bash linear.sh
I hope you like it

Very useful; thanks! I had to edit it slightly, though. It left the </a> that you see at the end of every line in the raw grep output in the script, resulting in malformed output filenames being passed to wget. Changing -e 's/<[^>]\+>//g' to -e 's/<\/a>//g' fixed it. Whole command:

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wget -k http://www.linear.com/designtools/doc_list.php?dt=2 -O /tmp/linear.txt && cat /tmp/linear.txt | grep  -o 'href=.*docs.*</a>' | sed -e 's/href="/wget /' -e 's/"//' -e 's/>/ -O "/' -e 's/<\/a>//g' -e 's/$/.pdf"/' > linear.sh && bash linear.sh

What does -e 's/<[^>]\+>//g' even do? I barely know sed.

Anyway, I did this just now, and the Linear appnotes are still online, for everybody who hasn't gotten around to downloading them yet.
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #96 on: March 24, 2017, 12:40:28 pm »

Very useful; thanks! I had to edit it slightly, though. It left the </a> that you see at the end of every line in the raw grep output in the script, resulting in malformed output filenames being passed to wget. Changing -e 's/<[^>]\+>//g' to -e 's/<\/a>//g' fixed it. Whole command:

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wget -k http://www.linear.com/designtools/doc_list.php?dt=2 -O /tmp/linear.txt && cat /tmp/linear.txt | grep  -o 'href=.*docs.*</a>' | sed -e 's/href="/wget /' -e 's/"//' -e 's/>/ -O "/' -e 's/<\/a>//g' -e 's/$/.pdf"/' > linear.sh && bash linear.sh
I'm glad that worked for you, but I can't see the malformed output filenames. Anyway, there are many ways to do this kind of things.

What does -e 's/<[^>]\+>//g' even do? I barely know sed.
This removes all tags from /tmp/linear.txt. You can see it if you run this. It's place may be not the best because I started to filter text from the grep output. It's a residue from a previous attempt but it removes all the tags that previous commands didn't change.
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cat /tmp/linear.txt | sed -e  's/<[^>]\+>//g' > linear.sh

 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #97 on: March 26, 2017, 07:12:41 am »
That's what I guessed it was supposed to do, but in my case it didn't get those </a>s, which I think were the only tags left at that point. Strange.

It's really annoying to try to inline-code-format "</a>" on here, BTW…
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #98 on: January 24, 2018, 04:02:05 pm »
FINALLY.

One of the positive consequences of the deal :)

https://www.mouser.it/linear-technology
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #99 on: January 30, 2018, 03:14:03 pm »
Get ready to lose the linear.com website. ADI will be absorbing it into the mothership this year. :(
 

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« Reply #100 on: January 30, 2018, 03:51:41 pm »
 :( One of best UI site in the industry.
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« Reply #101 on: January 31, 2018, 11:24:00 am »
I figured it was a matter of time before linear.com was deprecated.  I expect legacy Linear Technology parts to go the same way and have already started switching to alternatives.  None of those are parts from Analog Devices because I cannot find anything in their atrocious selection guides.
 

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« Reply #102 on: March 07, 2018, 12:22:54 pm »
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Linear.com is moving to Analog.com by the end of March. At that time, Linear.com will be redirected to Analog.com. More information coming soon.

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #103 on: March 07, 2018, 12:24:40 pm »
R.I.P. last good vendor website.
 

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« Reply #104 on: March 07, 2018, 07:14:50 pm »

Sorry, I had to.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #105 on: March 08, 2018, 11:13:12 am »
I so much hate shareholders who sold their shares in Linear. Idiots.
 

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« Reply #106 on: April 03, 2018, 08:59:41 am »
Linear.com is dead. The /docs still link though, so not that many dead links.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #107 on: April 03, 2018, 09:17:36 am »
I bet Maxim is going to do a bit better after this fuckup by AD. I'm certainly not going to be very inclined to spec a LT or AD part anymore.

Shame, as I really liked LT. AD has always been a bit meh.
 

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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #108 on: April 03, 2018, 10:50:03 am »
I bet Maxim is going to do a bit better after this fuckup by AD. I'm certainly not going to be very inclined to spec a LT or AD part anymore.

The website loss is a shame. On the other hand now Mouser stocks LT parts, before they didn't, and I seldom buy from digikey, so to me it's an overall win
 
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Re: Analog Devices buys Linear Technology
« Reply #109 on: April 03, 2018, 03:27:18 pm »
This might help:  8) Waybackmachine archive, 2018/Feb

https://web.archive.org/web/20180224033322/http://www.linear.com/


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