Linear Technology

About Linear Technology

Linear Technology is known for their exceptional quality, superior field support in partnership with Arrow, and a commitment to providing the whole solution. To this end, Linear Tech has developed unique relationships with suppliers like Altera, working together to create designs that address a total technical offering rather than just individual components.

Linear Technology Product Highlights

Linear Tech´s portfolio of high performance analog utilizes their unique history and design expertise to bring you superior quality products and solutions.

Data Conversion from Linear Technology

• Analog–to–Digital and Digital–to–Analog Converters (ADC, DAC)
  Linear Tech´s offering of high performance ADCs provide solutions for applications ranging from 24–bit precision measurements to 250Msps communications systems, and the DAC offering includes a range of resolutions, package densities, and output ranges.
• Analog switches and Multiplexers
  Browse Linear Technology´s offering of SPI and I2C serially controlled multiplexers for analog switches and data conversion.

Signal Conditioning from Linear Technology

• Operational Amplifiers (OpAmps)
  Linear Tech offers a broad range of OpAmps, fully specified over temperature, and designed to meet your high performance needs.
• Comparators
  Linear Technology specializes in high–speed comparators with propagation delays as fast as 7ns, and micro–power comparators with supply currents as low as 300nA, all with superior precision and state–of–the–art feature sets.
• Filters
  Linear Tech´s line of specialized filters can accommodate any frequency response with simple, flexible solutions.

Arrow also supports other Linear Technology signal conditioning products such as voltage references, switched cap building blocks, and more.

Power Management from Linear Technology

• Switching Regulators
  Linear Tech´s broad offering of switching regulators includes ICs with both synchronous and non–synchronous internal switches.
• Linear Regulators (LDO)
  LDOs offered by Linear Technology provide low dropout, fast transient response, and have a wide input voltage range, from 0.9V to 80V.

• LED Driver ICs
  Linear Tech offers a wide range of LED drivers for automotive, display backlighting, handheld and general lighting applications.
• Battery Management
  Linear Technology provides a comprehensive array of high performance battery charger ICs for battery chemistries including lithium–ion, lead–acid, and nickel–based.

Other Power Management devices available from Linear Tech include power control, hot swap ICs, Power-Over-Ethernet (PoE) interface controllers, and system supervisors.

Interface Products from Linear Technology

• Transceivers (RS232 ⁄ 562 ⁄ 485 ⁄ 422, CAN)
  Linear Tech´s broad transceiver offering includes industry standard single, dual, and combination transceivers for RS232 and RS562, low power CMOS RS485 and RS422 interface transceivers with high ESD protection, and Linear Technology´s CAN Transceiver, offering fault protected communications for industrial and automotive environments.
• I2C and SMBus Bus Buffers and Accelerators
  Browse Linear Technology´s industry recognized bus buffers and accelerators, eliminating common 2–wire bus problems, or buffering in hot swap environments or when address conflicts occur.
• Multiprotocal
  Linear Technology offers an array of multiprotocol transceivers, perfect for serial ports in networking and telecom applications.
• SIM Interface
  For power conversion and level shifting in Smart Cards and GSM SIM modules, Linear Tech offers a line of SIM interface parts that meet today´s design challenges.

Linear Technology also offers a complete range of high frequency optical devices (mixers, modulators, demodulators, optical communications devices, and much more).