The Spanish section of the IEEE, the largest international association of engineers in all branches of technology, has expressly thanked Analog Devices SLU, the Spanish subsidiary of the giant Analog Devices Inc., its "valuable contribution" to the activities organized within the framework of the Action for Industry program, carried out by the IEEE in Region 8, which includes the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, to establish synergies between research and industry.
This recognition took place last October 20 in the CaixaForum of Sevilla within the Award Ceremony that closes annually the celebration of IEEE Day, annual meeting that all the section celebrates worldwide to commemorate the first IEEE meating, in 1884.
Installed in the University of Valencia Science Park, nowadays the ADI Spain Development Center has more than 70 employees dedicated mostly to R+D+i tasks in the area of design and manufacture of integrated microelectronic circuits, as well as its applications in different fields such as biomedical engineering; so it is considered a center of excellence on a global scale in its field.
Microelectronics, an industry with a future
In this regard, the head of the Spanish Development Center, Javier Calpe, underlines "the Analog Devices commitment in Spain to collaborate in the education of future professionals and promote microelectronics as an industry with a future. It's an exciting field of work for young people looking forward to making relevant contributions. "
Among the various initiatives in which ADI Spain has participated in the last year, it should be underlined the workshop organized by the Society of Circuits and Systems of the IEEE, where Javier Calpe addressed the future of the semiconductor industry and also presented a work on bioengineering. Moreover, senior Analog designer Gerard Mora reported the state-of-the-art in ultra low-power data converters.
ADI was founded in 1965 in Massachusetts (USA) and since then the company has focused on solving the technological challenges associated with signal processing in electronic equipments. In order to serve a portfolio of 150,000 worldwide customers, the multinational has more than 13,000 employees who play an important role in the development of systems for the processing, conditioning and conversion of different signals, such as temperature, pressure, sound, light and speed, into electrical signals that can be used across a wide range of devices.