Dallas Semiconductor
| Industry | Semiconductors, Electronics | 
|---|---|
| Founded | 1984, February | 
| Founder | Vin Prothro (CEO) | 
| Defunct | 2001 | 
| Fate | Acquired by Maxim Integrated | 
| Headquarters | , United States | 
| Products | Integrated Circuits | 
| Parent | Maxim Integrated | 
| Website | dalsemi.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-10-18) | 
Dallas Semiconductor, founded in 1984, acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2002, then acquired by Analog Devices in 2021, was a company that designed and manufactured analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductors (integrated circuits, or ICs). Its specialties included communications products (including T/E and Ethernet products), microcontrollers, battery management, thermal sensing and thermal management, non-volatile random-access memory, microprocessor supervisors, delay lines, silicon oscillators, digital potentiometers, real-time clocks, temperature-compensated crystal oscillators (TCXOs), iButton, and 1-Wire products.