‘Analog Garage’ officially opens in Boston’s Innovation District
Boston, MA. Analog Devices Inc. today formally opened its “Analog Garage” in Boston’s Innovation District. As garages go, this is a pretty nice one, occupying the 20th and 21st floors of a tower overlooking, from one vantage point, the Boston Inner Harbor, and from another, the gold dome of the Massachusetts State House. Future flying cars could easily land on the 21st floor rooftop deck.
John Barros, chief of economic development for the City of Boston, was on hand at the opening ceremony to welcome the garage to its new location within the city limits. The garage had previously been located across the river in Cambridge. The bulk of Analog Devices’ operations within the state have been in suburban locations.
Pat O’Doherty, lead of the Analog Garage and Analog Devices’ VP of emerging technologies, welcomed employees and visitors to the opening ceremony. The Analog Garage, he said, is dedicated to working with startups, innovation accelerators, academic partners, and internally funded projects to explore cutting-edge technology applications.
Demonstrations available to attendees of the opening ceremony ranged from RF location technologies to lidar sensing and processing for applications such as drone ranging.
According to the Analog Garage website, focus areas include sensing of physical phenomena and interpretation of the data. “The electronics that make this possible have always been in our wheelhouse,” the company reports. “We are investing approximately 20% of revenue into engineering to ensure we not only continue building our semiconductor lead but also excel in the emerging areas of photonics, machine learning, security, energy harvesting, and bio- and opto-electronics integration.”
