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Description of Business	12 Months Ended
Description of Business	Oct. 28, 2017
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Description of Business	Description of Business Analog Devices, Inc. (Analog Devices or the Company) is a leading global high-performance analog technology company. The Company's products and technologies intelligently bridge the physical and digital domains through sensing, measuring, powering, connecting and interpreting. The Company designs, manufactures and markets a broad portfolio of solutions that leverage high-performance analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing technology, including integrated circuits (ICs), algorithms, software, and subsystems. Since the Company's inception in 1965, it has focused on solving its customers’ toughest signal processing engineering challenges and playing a fundamental role in converting, conditioning, and processing real-world phenomena such as temperature, pressure, sound, light, speed, and motion into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of electronic devices. The Company combines sensors, data converters, amplifiers and linear products, radio frequency (RF) ICs, power management products, and signal processing products, into technology platforms that meet specific customer and market needs, leveraging its engineering investment across a broad base of markets and customers. As new generations of applications evolve, such as autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things, new needs for Analog Devices’ high-performance analog signal processing and digital signal processing (DSP) products and technology are emerging.