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Description of Business	12 Months Ended
Description of Business	Nov. 02, 2019
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. 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 efficiently 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 applications. The Company produces innovative products and technologies that accurately and securely sense, measure, connect, interpret and power, allowing its customers to intelligently bridge the physical and digital domains. The Company designs, manufactures, and markets a broad portfolio of solutions, including integrated circuits (ICs), algorithms, software, and subsystems, that leverage high-performance analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing technologies. The Company's fusion of cutting-edge sensors, data converters, amplifiers and linear products, radio frequency (RF) ICs, power management products, and other signal processing products with deep industry expertise allows it to create robust technology platforms that meet a broad spectrum of customer and market needs. As new generations of applications evolve - such as autonomous vehicles, 5G networks, intelligent factories, and smart healthcare devices - the demand for Analog Devices’ high-performance analog signal processing and digital signal processing (DSP) products and technologies is increasing.