Dallas Semiconductor

Dallas Semiconductor
IndustrySemiconductors, Electronics
Founded1984, February
FounderVin Prothro (CEO)
Defunct2001
FateAcquired by Maxim Integrated
Headquarters
Dallas, Texas
,
United States
ProductsIntegrated Circuits
ParentMaxim Integrated
WebsiteNo longer exists
Real Time Clock DS12B887
64 kB non-volatile SRAM DS1225

Dallas Semiconductor, acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2002 for $2.5 billion,[1] then acquired by Analog Devices in 2021, was a company that designed and manufactured analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductors (integrated circuits, or ICs).[2] Its specialties included communications products (including T/E and Ethernet products), microcontrollers, battery management, thermal sensing and thermal management, non-volatile random-access memory, microprocessor supervisors, delay lines, silicon oscillators, digital potentiometers, real-time clocks, temperature-compensated crystal oscillators (TCXOs), iButton, and 1-Wire products.[3]

  1. ^ "Maxim buys Dallas Semi for $2.5 bln". CNET. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  2. ^ EETimes (2001-04-11). "EETimes - Maxim completes acquisition of Dallas Semiconductor". EETimes. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  3. ^ "Newsroom Archive | Maxim Integrated". www.maximintegrated.com. Retrieved 2021-06-21.