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Navigation Options:
The ADI web site provides several other ways to find the information you are looking for:
Search Options:
To get the best results, ADI recommends using discriminating terms that are likely to be found only in the documents you seek. The more words you give, the better results you'll get. Here are some more options provided for a better experience:
More like this:
Select this link to search for similar results for the same keyword. For example, if you searched for amplifiers and then selected More Like This for a particular result whose document type is Application Notes, you would be searching for more amplifier results within Application Notes.
Show me only:
Select this link to search for similar results for the same keyword. For example, if you searched for amplifiers and then selected any Document Type Link (Application Notes) from document type list you would be searching for more amplifier results within Application Notes.
Page Numbers:
Click on the corresponding page numbers to traverse through the records. Clicking on "Next" and "Prev" will fetch the records for next or previous set of results.
Advanced Search:
The advanced search allows you to drill into your search results in ways that the other searches can't accomplish.
Here's the Boolean concept behind the advanced search interface choices:
With all of the words = AND
With the exact phrase = "string as entered"
With at least one of the words = OR
Without the words = NOT
Search Tips:
The search default is a Boolean OR, meaning a search term "accelerometer iMEMS" will return items containing either "accelerometer" or "iMEMS". The operator OR is not needed.
One word query: accelerometer
Returns all documents containing the word "accelerometer".
Multiple word queries: soundport, AD1812
Returns all documents containing either "soundport" or "AD1812".
Exact phrase: Analog Devices
Returns items containing the exact phrase "Analog Devices".
With all words: blackfin sharc
Returns items containing "blackfin" and "sharc".
With at least one word: Analog Devices
Returns items containing the term "Analog " or " Devices ".
Without the words: Sharc
Returns items containing the query term"blackfin"(suppose) but without phrase "Sharc".
+ [require]: accelerometer + iMEMS
Returns items containing both "accelerometer" and "iMEMS". The operator AND can be typed in upper or lower case letters. If you want to search for the word "and", you must enclose it in double quotes.
- [reject]: accelerometer - iMEMS
Returns items containing "accelerometer" but not "iMEMS". The operator NOT can be typed in upper or lower case letters.
Search by typing words and phrases.
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ADI Search will find documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible, ranked so that the documents most relevant to your query are presented first. Don't worry about missing a document because it doesn't have one of the words in your search -- ADI Search returns relevant results even if they don't contain all query terms.
Identify phrases with quotation marks, separate with commas.
Cable Line Drivers with "Digitally Controlled VGA", and "Gain Programmable Cable Driver"
A phrase is entered using double quotation marks, and only matches those words which appear adjacent to each other. Separate multiple phrases or proper names with a comma.
Use UPPER case to indicate exact match.
Tiger SHARC
Search terms in lowercase will match words in any case, otherwise, an exact case match is used. For example, sharc will find matches for SHARC, sharc, and SHArc, whereas a query for SHARC will only match SHARC.
It's easy to refine a query to get precisely the results you want. Here are some effective techniques to try:
Identify a phrase.
| Before: | home run records |
| After: | "home run" records |
The before query is ambiguous. Is it looking for the home page of songs like "Run, Run, Run" or baseball statistics? Identifying "home run" as a phrase eliminates the ambiguity. This is the most powerful query refinement technique.
Add a discriminating word or a phrase.
| Before: | "home run" records |
| After: | "home run" records baseball |
As before, the before query is ambiguous. Adding baseball makes the query less ambiguous. You'll get more total matches (because the query is broadened with an additional term), but the relevance ranking will be better.
Use a require or reject operator (+,-).
| Before: | Amps |
| After: | Amps, +Differential -Fixed Gain |
Amps alone is ambiguous. You can use the reject operator (the "minus" sign) to eliminate the Fixed Gain interpretation. Or, you can require that the word "Differential" be in the document. The after version above does both.
Operator Summary
| Operator |
Action |
Example |
| "term1 term2 ..." |
Specifies that words should be adjacent |
"laser printer" |
| +term |
Requires a term |
+"laser printer" color |
| -term |
Excludes documents containing a term |
"laser printer" -color |
fieldname:
term |
Specifies that the term must be found in that field. See listing of fieldnames in the table below. |
title:"laser printer" |
| query1 | query2 |
Searches the results of query1 with query2, ranking results by relevance to both query1 and query2. |
dogs, cats | fleas |
| query1 || query2 |
Searches the results of query1 with query2, ranking results only by relevance to query2. |
trucks, cars || tires |
| Note: Lowercase terms match any case, otherwise case is matched exactly as typed. |
Field Search Summary
| Name |
Description |
Example |
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If no field is specified, the text is searched for in the Title, Summary, and Body. |
color computer |
| link |
A hyperlink within the text of the document |
link:analog.com |
| url |
The URL of the document |
url:sales/west |
| title |
Title of the document |
title:"downhill skiing" title:Washington |
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