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ADI is a remarkable company and they seem to be doing very well these days. If you’d told me ten years ago that in 2018 all of the old-line semiconductor compan
by ebikelaw 8y ago
ADI is a remarkable company and they seem to be doing very well these days. If you’d told me ten years ago that in 2018 all of the old-line semiconductor companies (ADI, TI, etc) would be trading at all-time-high stock prices I would have thought you were nuts but here we are. Hardware is still quite valuable.
- madengr 8y agoToo bad they destroyed the Hittite and LT web sites. Those were for engineers. The AD web site must be laid out by some marketing goob; totally painful to use.
- ebikelaw 8y agoAt least the AD website usually works on weekends. Many of these companies’ websites apparently need constant manual correction to continue operating, with the result that i often find I can’t download datasheets on Sundays. Bad for the hobbyist for sure.
- gh02t 8y agoI have trouble with slow page loads and can't order samples from Microchip on weekends.
- setquk 8y agoThis is universally the case for hardware companies I’ve found, even suppliers. We get Farnell, CPC and RS outages at the weekend here in the U.K.
- Animats 8y agoAt least the AD website usually works on weekends. Many of these companies’ websites apparently need constant manual correction to continue operating. So that's where "devops" takes us.
- setquk 8y agoYes. The LT web site was gold. How it should be done.
- madengr 8y agoThe Hittite web site had some great tools such as a graphical mixer spur calculator. Of course that is gone. ADI tech support sucks. The HMC6300 documentation is poor and buggy, and tech support won’t help. Used to be you could call Hittite and speak with an engineer. ADI is a black hole of web forms and forum posts. I just hope they leave LT Spice alone, but I’m sure they will fix it until it’s broken.
- setquk 8y agoLTspice is incidentally broken as fuck on windows 10 1803 so YMMV with that already.
- stn8188 8y agoFor what it's worth, I think the mixer spur tool is still available here (http://playground.analog.com http://playground.analog.com). See the recent Amp Hour episode for some specific discussion I heard about these tools and their development. (https://theamphour.com/392-an-interview-with-matt-duff/ https://theamphour.com/392-an-interview-with-matt-duff/)