Bob Adams

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About Bob Adams

High-visibility, innovative leader in audio conversion, signal processing, DSP hardware, and analog design. Responsible for numerous fundamental breakthroughs leading to high-revenue products. Recipient of major industry awards. Achievements include: • Significant breakthroughs in sigma-delta converter theory and design -Widely adopted within the industry • Design of many application-specific as well as standard-product IC’s -Cumulative revenues of over 700 million dollars. • Developed a line of embedded audio DSP cores (SigmaDSP) for Analog Devices -The most successful graphically-programmable signal processor in the industry -Used extensively in premium automotive audio systems. • First integrated audio asynchronous sample-rate converter (1992) • Fundamental discoveries such as the log-domain filter ( published 1st paper in 1979) • Designed many consumer and professional audio products (dbx inc. 1978-1989), including- First high-resolution (18-bit) audio A/D converter -One of the first digital-audio recorders -First automatic room equalizer • 46 patents; additional patents pending • Extensive corporate leadership roles -Key contributor to senior management innovation initiatives -Responsible for Internal Technical Conference, 2010-2011, with over 1300 attendees National Academy of Engineering, Feb 2018 2015 Donald O Pederson award 2016 Circuits and Systems "Industrial Pioneer" Award • Fellow, Analog Devices Fellow, AES Fellow, Electronic Design “Hall of Fame”, AES Silver Medal Award • Lecturer, mentor, prolific author (professional journals, industry magazines and book chapters) Patent List: Publication List: Specialties: Delta-Sigma Converters Audio DSP theory and practice DSP cores (HW) and algorithms Mixed-signal design Audio Product Design