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    AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON DECEMBER 11, 1996

                                                 Registration No. 333-
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
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                                    FORM S-3

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             REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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                              ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

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         MASSACHUSETTS                                  04-2348234
     (State or Other Juris-                          (I.R.S.Employer.
     diction of Incorpora-                           Identification No.)
     tion or Organization)
                               ONE TECHNOLOGY WAY
                        NORWOOD, MASSACHUSETTS 02062-9106
                                 (617) 329-4700
                        (Address, Including Zip Code, and
                     Telephone Number, Including Area Code,
                            of Registrant's Principal
                               Executive Offices)

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                             PAUL P. BROUNTAS, ESQ.
                                  HALE AND DORR
                                 60 STATE STREET
                           BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02109
                                 (617) 526-6000
                     (Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and
                     Telephone Number, Including Area Code,
                              of Agent for Service)

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          APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC: AS
     SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT BECOMES EFFECTIVE.

          If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered
     pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the
     following box. / /

          If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be
     offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the
     Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection
     with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. /X/

          If this form is registering additional securities pursuant to Rule
     462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list
     the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective
     registration statement for the same offering. / /

          If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule
     462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the
     Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective
     registration statement for the same offering. / /

          If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant Rule
     434, please check the following box. / /


                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Each Class Amount to be Proposed Maximum Proposed Maximum Amount of of Securities to be Registered (1)(2) Offering Price Per Aggregate Offering Registration Fee Registered Share (1) Price (1) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common Stock, 1,000,000 shares $34.6875 $34,687,500 $10,511.37 $.16 2/3 par value - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on the basis of the average of the high and low sales prices of the Registrant's Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange on December 9, 1996. (2) Takes into account a 4-for-3 stock split declared by the Board of Directors on December 3, 1996 to be effected in the form of a 33% stock dividend to be distributed on January 6, 1997 to holders of record December 16, 1996. -------------------------
THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(a) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(a), SHALL DETERMINE. =========================================================================== 2 INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS SUBJECT TO COMPLETION OR AMENDMENT. A REGISTRATION STATEMENT RELATING TO THESE SECURITIES HAS BEEN FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. THESE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD NOR MAY OFFERS TO BUY BE ACCEPTED PRIOR TO THE TIME THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT BECOMES EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY NOR SHALL THERE BE ANY SALE OF THESE SECURITIES IN ANY STATE IN WHICH SUCH OFFER, SOLICITATION OR SALE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL PRIOR TO REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY SUCH STATE. SUBJECT TO COMPLETION PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS DATED DECEMBER 11, 1996 1,000,000 Shares ANALOG DEVICES, INC. COMMON STOCK ------------------------- The shares of Common Stock, $.16 2/3 par value per share (the "Common Stock") of Analog Devices, Inc. ("Analog" or the "Company") covered by this Prospectus may be issued by the Company from time to time to the trust (the "Trust") established by the Company and Boatmens' Trust Company (the "Trustee") pursuant to the Company's Deferred Compensation Plan. All of the shares covered by this Prospectus may be offered and sold for the account of the Trust, and the proceeds of the sale of the shares will be held by the Trustee separate and apart from other funds of the Company and applied for the uses and purposes of participants in the Company's Deferred Compensation Plan. See "Deferred Compensation Plan" and "Use of Proceeds." ------------------------- THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE. ------------------------- The date of this Prospectus is _____________, 1996. 3 AVAILABLE INFORMATION The Company is subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and in accordance therewith files reports and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"). Reports, proxy materials and other information filed by the Company with the Commission, pursuant to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act, may be inspected and copied at the public reference facilities maintained by the Commission at the Public Reference Section of the Commission at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, and at the Regional Offices of the Commission located at Seven World Trade Center, Suite 1300, New York, New York 10048, and at Citicorp Center, 500 West Madison Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, Illinois 60661. Copies of such materials also may be obtained from the Public Reference Section of the Commission at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549 at prescribed rates. In addition, the Company is required to file electronic versions of these documents with the Commission through the Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. The Commission maintains a World Wide Web site at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the Commission. The Common Stock of the Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and traded under the symbol "ADI." Reports, proxy materials and other information concerning the Company may also be inspected at the offices of the New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005. The Company has filed with the Commission a Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), with respect to the shares of Common Stock offered hereby. This Prospectus does not contain all the information set forth in the Registration Statement and the exhibits and schedules thereto, certain portions of which are omitted as permitted by the rules and regulations of the Commission. For further information with respect to the Company and the shares of Common Stock offered hereby, reference is made to the Registration Statement, including the exhibits and schedules thereto, which may be inspected, without charge, at the Commission's principal office at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, and also at the regional offices of the Commission listed above. Copies of such materials may also be obtained from the Commission upon the payment of prescribed rates. Statements contained in this Prospectus as to any contracts, agreements or other documents filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement are not necessarily complete, and in each instance reference is hereby made to the copy of such contract, -2- 4 agreement or other document filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement for a full statement of the provisions thereof, and each such statement in this Prospectus is qualified in all respects by such reference. INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE The following documents filed by the Company with the Commission are incorporated herein by reference: (1) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 28, 1995; (2) The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended February 3, 1996; (3) The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A for the quarter ended February 3, 1996; (4) The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended May 4, 1996; (5) The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended August 3, 1996; (6) The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 5, 1996; (7) The Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 0-4407) filed with the Commission on March 2, 1970; and (8) All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after December 11, 1996 and prior to the date of this Prospectus. All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Prospectus and before the termination of the offering of the Common Stock offered hereby shall be deemed to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement as so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Prospectus. The Company will provide without charge to each person to whom this Prospectus is delivered, upon the request of such person, a copy of any or all of the above documents incorporated herein by reference (without exhibits to such documents other than -3- 5 exhibits specifically incorporated by reference into the documents that this Prospectus incorporates). Requests for such copies should be directed to Joseph E. McDonough, Vice President-Finance of Analog Devices, Inc., One Technology Way, Norwood, MA 02062-9106; telephone number (617) 329-4700. NO DEALER, SALESMAN OR ANY OTHER PERSON HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO GIVE ANY INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS PROSPECTUS, AND ANY INFORMATION OR REPRESENTATION NOT CONTAINED HEREIN MUST NOT BE RELIED UPON AS HAVING BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE COMPANY. THIS PROSPECTUS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL, OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY, ANY SECURITIES OTHER THAN THE REGISTERED SECURITIES TO WHICH IT RELATES OR AN OFFER TO, OR SOLICITATION OF, ANY PERSON IN ANY JURISDICTION WHERE SUCH AN OFFER OR SOLICITATION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. NEITHER THE DELIVERY OF THIS PROSPECTUS NOR ANY SALE MADE HEREUNDER SHALL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, CREATE ANY IMPLICATION THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE COMPANY SINCE THE DATE HEREOF OR THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CORRECT AS OF ANY DATE SUBSEQUENT TO THE DATE HEREOF. -4- 6 THE COMPANY The Company designs, manufactures and markets a broad line of high-performance linear, mixed-signal and digital integrated circuits ("ICs") that address a wide range of real-world signal processing applications. The Company's principal products include general-purpose, standard-function linear and mixed-signal ICs ("SLICs"), special-purpose linear and mixed-signal ICs ("SPLICs") and digital signal processing ICs ("DSP ICs"). The Company also manufactures and markets devices using assembled product technology. DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN The Company has established the Analog Devices, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan") to provide certain management and highly compensated employees and directors of the Company with the opportunity to defer receipt of portions of their compensation payable for services rendered to the Company. The obligations of the Company under such deferral arrangements (the "Obligations") are unfunded and unsecured general obligations of the Company to pay in the future the value of the deferred compensation adjusted to reflect the performance, whether positive or negative, of selected investment measurement options chosen by each participant during the deferral period in accordance with the terms of the Plan. Eligible participants in the Plan ("Eligible Employees") are designated from time to time, by name, group or description by the Administrative Committee for the Plan. The Plan, adopted on November 3, 1995, was amended by the Board of Directors on December 3, 1996 to permit Eligible Employees to defer not only salary and bonuses but also the gains that would otherwise be recognized upon the exercise of non-statutory stock options held by Eligible Employees ("Deferred Option Gains"). Ordinarily, upon the exercise of non-statutory stock options, Eligible Employees would be required to recognize, for federal income tax purposes, an amount equal to the difference between the option exercise price and the fair market value of the Company's Common Stock issued upon the option exercise. To defer the Deferred Option Gains, Eligible Employees are required to deliver an irrevocable election to the Company prior to the option exercise. After the deferral election has been delivered and the option is exercised, the Company will issue to the Trust (established for the Deferred Compensation Plan by a Trust Agreement between the Company and the Trustee), that number of shares of Common Stock which, based on the then fair market value, represents the gain that would otherwise be realized upon the option exercise. The Trust is -5- 7 considered to be a grantor trust for federal income tax purposes. Such shares shall be held by the Trustee together with any other funds or assets deposited with the Trustee by the Company pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement. The assets of the Trust, and any earnings thereon, shall be held separate and apart from other funds of the Company for the uses and purposes of Plan participants. The Company's obligation with respect to an Eligible Employee's Deferred Option Gains is an unfunded and unsecured promise by the Company to pay in the future the value of the Deferred Option Gains, adjusted either up or down to reflect the performance of selected investment measurement options available to each participant during the deferral period in accordance with the Plan and the Trust Agreement. Shares of the Company's Common Stock issued with respect to Deferred Option Gains shall be sold from time to time in the open market for the account of the Trust when an Eligible Employee advises the Company to change his/her investment from Analog Common Stock to one or more of the several investment measurement options available to Plan participants. After such stock is sold, investment earnings credited to the Eligible Employee's account will be indexed to the mutual funds or indices selected by the Eligible Employee. The Company is not actually required to invest the deferred compensation in the types of funds specified by a Plan participant. However, such use of the Trust may assist the Company in meeting its future Obligations. The Company has filed with the Commission a Registration Statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act with respect to the Company's Obligations under the Plan (Registration Statement No. 33-64849). The address of the Trustee is Boatmens' Trust Company, Attention: John Bascio, LBT 970, P.O. Box 14737, St. Louis, MO 63178-4737. USE OF PROCEEDS As set forth under "Deferred Compensation Plan," the proceeds from the sale of any shares of Company Common Stock shall be held by the Trustee separate and apart from other funds of the Company and applied for the use and purposes of participants in the Plan. Such proceeds, together with other assets held by the Trust, shall be subject to the claims of the Company's general creditors under federal and state laws in the event of the Company's insolvency. The Company cannot determine the number of shares of Common Stock which will be sold pursuant to this Prospectus because that number is dependent upon the extent to which Eligible Employees -6- 8 elect to defer the recognition of gains from their exercise of stock options granted by the Company. PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION Shares of Common Stock covered hereby may be offered and sold by the Company for the account of the Trust. Such sales may be made on the New York Stock Exchange in open market transactions including one or more of the following methods: (a) purchases by a broker-dealer as principal for resale on the open market by such broker or dealer for its account pursuant to this Prospectus; (b) ordinary open market brokerage transactions and open market transactions in which a broker solicits purchasers; and (c) block trades in which a broker-dealer so engaged will attempt to sell on the open market the shares as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction. In effecting sales, broker-dealers engaged to sell the shares may arrange for other broker-dealers to participate. Broker-dealers will receive commissions or discounts from the Company in amounts to be negotiated immediately prior to the sale. In offering the shares of Common Stock covered hereby, any broker-dealers and any other participating broker-dealers who execute sales may be deemed to be "underwriters" within the meaning of the Securities Act in connection with such sales, and the compensation of such broker-dealers may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions. This offering will terminate on the date on which all shares offered hereby have been sold. INDEMNIFICATION MATTERS The Restated Articles of Organization of the Company, as amended (the "Articles of Organization") provide that the directors and officers of the Company shall be indemnified by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by Massachusetts law, as it now exists or may in the future be amended, against all liabilities and expenses incurred in connection with service for or on behalf of the Company. In addition, the Articles of Organization provide that the directors of the Company will not be personally liable for monetary damages to the Company for breaches of their fiduciary duty as directors. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is -7- 9 against public policy as expressed in the Act and is therefore unenforceable. LEGAL MATTERS The validity of the shares offered hereby will be passed upon for the Company by Hale and Dorr, Boston, Massachusetts. EXPERTS The consolidated financial statements and schedule of Analog Devices, Inc. appearing in Analog Devices, Inc.'s Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended October 28, 1995 have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent auditors, as set forth in their report thereon included therein and incorporated herein by reference. Such financial statements and schedule are incorporated herein by reference in reliance upon such report given upon the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing. -8- 10 PART II INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS ITEM 14. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.
The following table sets forth the various expenses in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities being registered. All amounts shown are estimates except the Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee. SEC Registration Fee................................. $10,511 Accounting Fees and Expenses......................... 5,000 Legal Fees and Expenses.............................. 12,000 Miscellaneous........................................ 2,489 Total................................................ $30,000
ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. Article 6A of the Registrant's Articles of Organization, as amended (the "Articles of Organization") provides for indemnification of directors and officers to the full extent permitted under Massachusetts law. Section 67 of Chapter 156B of the Massachusetts General Laws provides that a corporation has the power to indemnify a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation and certain other persons serving at the request of the corporation and certain other persons serving at the request of the corporation in related capacities against amounts paid and expenses incurred in connection with an action or proceeding to which he is or is threatened to be made a party by reason of such position, if such person shall have acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the corporation, provided that, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged not to be entitled to indemnification under Section 67. Article 6A also provides for indemnification of directors and officers of the Registrant against liabilities and expenses in connection with any legal proceedings to which they may be made a party or with which they may become involved or threatened by reason of having been an officer or director of the Registrant or of any other organization at the request of the Registrant. Article 6A generally provides that a director or officer of the Registrant (i) shall be indemnified by the Registrant for all expenses of such legal proceedings unless he has been adjudicated not to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the best interests of the Registrant, and (ii) shall be indemnified by the Registrant for the expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and compromise of such II-1 11 proceedings. No indemnification will be made to cover costs of settlements and compromises if the Board determines by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of disinterested directors (or, if such quorum is not obtainable, by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Registrant), that such settlement or compromise is not in the best interests of the Registrant. Article 6A permits the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action in advance of its final disposition, subject to receipt of an undertaking by the indemnified person to repay such payment if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification under the Articles of Organization. No advance may be made if the Board of Directors determines, by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of disinterested directors (or, if such quorum is not obtainable, by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Registrant), that such person did not act in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the best interest of the Registrant. Article 6D of the Registrant's Articles of Organization provides that no director shall be liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of his fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 61 or 62 of Chapter 156B, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. The Registrant has directors and officers liability insurance for the benefit of its directors and officers. ITEM 16. EXHIBITS. See Exhibit Index included immediately preceding the Exhibits to this Registration Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference. ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS. (a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement: (i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"); II-2 12 (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement; (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement; provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement. (2) That, for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the bona fide offering thereof. (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the indemnification provisions described herein, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, II-3 13 suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. II-4 14 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Norwood, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 11th day of December, 1996. ANALOG DEVICES, INC. By: /s/ Jerald G. Fishman ------------------------------ Jerald G. Fishman President and Chief Executive Officer POWER OF ATTORNEY We, the undersigned officers and directors of Analog Devices, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Ray Stata, Jerald G. Fishman, Joseph E. McDonough and Paul P. Brountas, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names, in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed herewith, and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to the Registration Statement and generally to do all such things in our names and behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Analog Devices, Inc. to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to any such Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto. Witness our hands and common seal on the date set forth below. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. SIGNATURE TITLE DATE --------- ----- ---- ) ) /s/ Jerald G. Fishman )December 11, 1996 --------------------- President, Chief Executive ) JERALD G. FISHMAN Officer and Director ) II-5 15 ) ) /s/ Ray Stata ) ------------------------ Chairman of the Board ) RAY STATA and Director ) ) ) /s/ Joseph E. McDonough ) ------------------------ Vice President-Finance and ) JOSEPH E. MCDONOUGH Chief Financial Officer )December 11, 1996 ) ) ) /s/ John L. Doyle ) ------------------------ Director ) JOHN L. DOYLE ) ) ) /s/ Samuel H. Fuller ) ------------------------ Director ) SAMUEL H. FULLER ) ) ) /s/ Philip L. Lowe ) ------------------------ Director ) PHILIP L. LOWE ) ) ) /s/ Gordon C. McKeague ) ------------------------ Director ) GORDON C. MCKEAGUE ) ) ) /s/ Joel Moses ) ------------------------ Director ) JOEL MOSES ) ) ) ------------------------ Director ) LESTER C. THUROW ) II-6 16 EXHIBIT INDEX EXHIBIT NUMBER DESCRIPTION 3.1 Restated Articles of Organization of the Registrant, as amended (incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant's Form S-8, dated as of May 30, 1996). 3.2 By-Laws of the Registrant, as amended (incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 1992). 4.1 Rights Agreement, as amended, between the Registrant and The First National Bank of Boston, as Rights Agent (incorporated herein by reference to a Form 8 filed on June 27, 1989 amending the Registration Statement on Form 8-A relating to Common Stock Purchase Rights). 4.2 Deferred Compensation Plan of the Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant's Form S-8, dated December 8, 1995 (File No. 33-64849)). 4.3 Amendment No. 1, dated December 3, 1996 to Analog Devices, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan. 4.4 Trust Agreement for Deferred Compensation Plan between the Registrant and Boatmens' Trust Company ("Trustee"), dated December 11, 1995. 4.5 Amendment No. 1, dated December 3, 1996, to trust Agreement for Deferred Compensation Plan between the Registrant and the Trustee. 5.1 Opinion of Hale and Dorr. 23.1 Consent of Hale and Dorr (included in Exhibit 5.1). 23.2 Consent of Independent Auditors. 24.1 Powers of Attorney (included on page II-5).
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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.3

                              ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

                                 Amendment No. 1
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                                December 3, 1996

     1.   Section 2.9 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Compensation means
the Base Salary, Bonus, Director's fees and meeting fees, income recognized
upon exercise of stock options and income recognized upon vesting of restricted
stock payable with respect to an Eligible Employee for each plan year."

     2.   Section 2.19 is hereby amended by adding the following sentence at the
end thereof: "The term `Eligible Employee' shall include any director of the
Company."

     3.   Section 5.6 of the Company's Deferred Compensation Plan is hereby 
amended to read in its entirety as follows:

               "5.6    The Plan may accept the transfer of amounts or assets
          deferred by a Participant under any other deferral arrangement
          provided by the Company, including without limitation, any shares of
          Company Common Stock which but for such deferral, would (i) be issued
          to the Participant upon exercise of stock options granted by the
          Company or (ii) be vested and nonforfeitable in the case of restricted
          stock issued to the Participant. In the case of amounts deferred in 
          the form of units of Company Common Stock pursuant to a stock option
          exercise, where shares of Company Common Stock have been issued to a
          trust established by the Company to provide a source of funds to 
          assist it in meeting its obligations under the Plan, a change in the
          investment measurement medium from units of Company Common Stock to 
          another form of investment measurement medium shall not be effective
          until such stock has been disposed of by such trust. Notwithstanding
          the preceding provisions of this Article V, any amounts deferred in
          the form of units of Company Common Stock  shall be accounted for on
          a share by share basis until a change in the investment measurement 
          medium is made pursuant to Section 5.5 above."




     4.   The Table on Exhibit B is hereby amended to read in its entirety

as follows:

MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE TYPE OF COMPENSATION THAT CAN BE DEFERRED OTHER LIMITATIONS Base Salary......................... 100% Bonus............................... 100% Director's fees and meeting fees.... 100% Shares otherwise issuable upon stock option exercise............... 100% Restricted shares that would otherwise vest and be nonforfeitable..................... 100%
5. The following line is added to the Table on Exhibit C: "Analog Devices, Inc. Common Stock December 1, 1996."
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                                                                  EXHIBIT 4.4


                                [LOGO] ANALOG
                                       DEVICES

                               TRUST AGREEMENT
                                     FOR
                          DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS


Section 1...................................................................1
         ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST.............................................1

Section 2...................................................................2
         PAYMENTS TO PLAN PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES..............2

Section 3...................................................................3
         TRUST RESPONSIBILITY REGARDING PAYMENTS TO TRUST 
         BENEFICIARY WHEN COMPANY IS INSOLVENT..............................3

Section 4...................................................................4
         PAYMENTS TO COMPANY................................................4

Section 5...................................................................4
         INVESTMENT AUTHORITY...............................................4

Section 6...................................................................5
         DISPOSITION OF INCOME..............................................5

Section 7...................................................................5
         ACCOUNTING BY TRUSTEE..............................................5

Section 8...................................................................6
         RESPONSIBILITY OF TRUSTEE..........................................6

Section 9...................................................................8
         COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES OF TRUSTEE...............................8

Section 10..................................................................9
         RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE.................................9

Section 11..................................................................9
         APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR...........................................9

Section 12..................................................................10
         AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION...........................................10

Section 13..................................................................10
         MISCELLANEOUS......................................................10

Section 14..................................................................12
         EFFECTIVE DATE.....................................................12


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                                 TRUST AGREEMENT
                                 ---------------

         THIS AGREEMENT made this 11th day of December, 1995, by and between
Analog Devices, Inc. ("Analog") and Boatmens' Trust Company ("Trustee);

         WHEREAS, Analog and certain of its affiliates (collectively "Company")
have adopted the non-qualified deferred compensation plan(s) as listed in
Appendix A (the "Plans");

         WHEREAS, Company has incurred or expects to incur liability under the
terms of such Plan(s) with respect to the individuals participating in such
Plan(s);

         WHEREAS, Company wishes to establish a Trust (hereinafter called
"Trust") and to contribute to the Trust assets that shall be held therein,
subject to the claims of Company's creditors in the event of Company's
insolvency, as herein defined, until paid to Plan participants and their
beneficiaries in such manner and at such times as specified in the Plan(s);

         WHEREAS, it is the intention of the parties that this Trust shall
constitute an unfunded arrangement and shall not affect the status of the
Plan(s) as an unfunded plan maintained for the purpose of providing deferred
compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees
for purposes of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended ("ERISA");

         WHEREAS, it is the intention of Company to make contributions to the
Trust to provide itself with a source of funds to assist it in the meeting of
its liabilities under the Plan(s);

         NOW, THEREFORE, the parties do hereby establish the Trust and agree
that the Trust shall be comprised, held and disposed of as follows:

SECTION 1.
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         ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST.

         (a) Company hereby deposits with Trustee in Trust $______, which shall
become the principal of the Trust to be held, administered and disposed of by
Trustee as provided in this Trust Agreement.

         (b) The Trust hereby established shall be irrevocable.

         (c) The Trust is intended to be a grantor Trust, of which
Company is the grantor, within the meaning of subpart E, part I, subchapter J,
chapter 1, subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
shall be construed accordingly.


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         (d) The principal of the Trust, and any earnings thereon shall be held
separate and apart from other funds of Company and shall be used exclusively for
the uses and purposes of Plan participants and general creditors as herein set
forth. Plan participants and their beneficiaries shall have no preferred claim
on, or any beneficial ownership interest in, any assets of the Trust. Any rights
created under the Plan(s) and this Trust Agreement shall be mere unsecured
contractual rights of Plan participants and their beneficiaries against Company.
Any assets held by the Trust will be subject to the claims of Company's general
creditors under federal and state law in the event of insolvency, as defined in
Section 3(a) herein.

         (e) Upon a Change of Control, Company shall, as soon as possible, but
in no event longer than thirty (30) days following the Change of Control, as
defined herein, make an irrevocable contribution to the Trust in an amount that
is sufficient to pay each Plan participant or beneficiary the benefits to which
Plan participants or their beneficiaries would be entitled purusant to the terms
of the Plan(s) as of the date on which the Change of Control occurred.

         (f) The Plan shall be administered by a plan administrator appointed by
Company or, in the event that no such plan administrator is appointed, by
Company, and Trustee shall not be responsible in any respect for the
administration of the Plan.

         (g) Company hereby represents that it has the requisite authority and
is empowered to appoint Trustee to act as trustee with respect to the Plan and
to enter into this Trust Agreement with Trustee.

SECTION 2.
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         PAYMENTS TO PLAN PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES.

         (a) Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Trustee a
schedule (the "Payment Schedule") that indicates the amounts payable in respect
of each Plan participant (and his or her beneficiaries), that provides a formula
or other instructions acceptable to Trustee for determining the amounts so
payable, the form in which such amount is to be paid (as provided for or
available under the Plan(s)), and the time of commencement for payment of such
amounts. Except as otherwise provided herein, Trustee shall make payments to the
Plan participants and their beneficiaries in accordance with such Payment
Schedule. The Trustee shall make provision for the reporting and withholding of
any federal, state or local taxes that may be required to be withheld with
respect to the payment of benefits pursuant to the terms of the Plan(s) and
shall pay amounts withheld to the appropriate taxing authorities or determine
that such amounts have been reported, withheld and paid by Company.


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         (b)      The entitlement of a Plan participant or his or her
beneficiaries to benefits under the Plan(s) shall be determined by Company or
such party as it shall designate under the Plan(s), and any claim for such
benefits shall be considered and reviewed under the procedures set out in the
Plan(s).

         (c)      Company may make payment of benefits directly to Plan
participants or their beneficiaries as they become due under the terms of the
Plan(s). Company shall notify Trustee of its decision to make payment of
benefits directly prior to the time amounts are payable to Plan participants or
their beneficiaries. In addition, if the principal of the Trust, and any
earnings thereon, are not sufficient to make payments of benefits in accordance
with the terms of the Plan(s), Company shall make the balance of each such
payment as it falls due. Trustee shall notify Company where principal and
earnings are not sufficient.

SECTION 3.
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         TRUST RESPONSIBILITY REGARDING PAYMENTS TO TRUST BENEFICIARY WHEN 
COMPANY IS INSOLVENT.

         (a)      Trustee shall cease payment of benefits to Plan participants
and their beneficiaries if the Company is insolvent. Company shall be considered
"insolvent" for purposes of this Trust Agreement if (i) Company is unable to pay
its debts as they become due, or (ii) Company is subject to a pending proceeding
as a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code.

         (b)      At all times during the continuance of this Trust, as provided
in Section 1(d) hereof, the principal and income of the Trust shall be subject
to claims of general creditors of Company under federal and state law as set
forth below:

                  (1) The Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of
         Analog shall have the duty to inform Trustee in writing of Company's
         insolvency. If a person claiming to be a creditor of Company alleges in
         writing to Trustee that Company has become insolvent, Trustee shall
         determine whether Company is insolvent and, pending such determination,
         Trustee shall discontinue payment of benefits to Plan participants or
         their beneficiaries.

                  (2) Unless Trustee has actual knowledge of Company's
         insolvency, or has received notice from Company or a person claiming to
         be a creditor alleging that Company is insolvent, Trustee shall have no
         duty to inquire whether Company is insolvent. Trustee may in all events
         rely on such evidence concerning Company's solvency as may be furnished
         to Trustee and that provides Trustee with a reasonable basis for making
         a determination concerning Company's solvency.


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                  (3) If at any time Trustee has determined that Company is
         insolvent, Trustee shall discontinue payments to Plan participants or
         their beneficiaries and shall hold the assets of the Trust for the
         benefit of Company's general creditors. Nothing in this Trust Agreement
         shall in any way diminish any rights of Plan participants or their
         beneficiaries to pursue their rights as general creditors of Company
         with respect to benefits due under the Plan(s) or otherwise.

                  (4) Trustee shall resume the payment of benefits to Plan
         participants or their beneficiaries in accordance with Section 2 of
         this Trust Agreement only after Trustee has determined that Company is
         not insolvent (or is no longer insolvent).

         (c)      Provided that there are sufficient assets, if Trustee
discontinues the payment of benefits from the Trust pursuant to Section 3(b)
hereof and subsequently resumes such payments, the first payment following such
discontinuance shall include the aggregate amount of all payments due to Plan
participants or their beneficiaries under the terms of the Plan(s) for the
period of such discontinuance, less the aggregate amount of any payments made to
Plan participants or their beneficiaries by Company in lieu of the payments
provided for hereunder during any such period of discontinuance.

SECTION 4.
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         PAYMENTS TO COMPANY.

         Except as provided in Section 3 hereof, Company shall have no right or
power to direct Trustee to return to Company or to divert to others any of the
Trust assets before all payment of benefits have been made to Plan participants
and their beneficiaries pursuant to the terms of the Plan(s).

SECTION 5.
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         INVESTMENT AUTHORITY.

          (a)     In no event may Trustee invest in securities (including stock
or rights to acquire stock) or obligations issued by Company, other than a de
minimis amount held in common investment vehicles in which Trustee invests. All
rights associated with assets of the Trust shall be exercised by Trustee or the
person designated by Trustee, and shall in no event be exercisable by or rest
with Plan participants. Company shall have the right, at anytime, and from time
to time in its sole discretion, to substitute assets of equal fair market value
for any asset held by the Trust.

          (b)     The Trust's assets shall be invested by the Trustee in
accordance with the written investment guidelines provided, or caused to be
provided, from time to time to the Trustee by the Investment Committee appointed
by the Board of Directors of the Company. If no such guidelines are received by
the Trustee or if a Change of Control as 


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hereinafter defined occurs, the assets of the Trust shall be invested in such
investments as determined by the Trustee in accordance with powers contained
herein.

         (c) Company may from time to time appoint one or more investment
managers (each such investment manager is referred to as an "Investment
Manager") to manage and invest any part or all of the assets of the Trust and,
with respect to such assets, to direct Trustee with respect to effecting
investment transactions on behalf of the Trust and exercising such other powers
as may be granted to an Investment Manager hereunder. Company shall advise
Trustee in writing of the appointment, removal or resignation of an Investment
Manager and such notice shall remain in force, and Trustee shall be fully
protected in relying upon such notice, until receipt of written notice of
revocation thereof or amendment thereto. Any such Investment Manager may direct
Trustee to invest and reinvest that portion of the Trust under the direction of
such Investment Manager in any securities or other property (including, without
limitation, any mutual, common or commingled investment fund maintained by an
Investment Manager or by Trustee or any affiliate of Trustee). In each case
where such appointment is made, Company shall determine those assets of the
Trust to be allocated to the Investment Manager from time to time and shall
issue appropriate instructions in writing to Trustee with respect thereto.
Trustee shall be under no duty or obligation to review or question any direction
of any Investment Manager, or otherwise evaluate the performance of any
Investment Manager, or to make recommendations with respect to any investment to
any Investment Manager, and Trustee shall be fully protected for acting in
accordance with, or failing to act in the absence of, any direction of such
Investment Manager.

         (d) Except as limited by Section 5(a) or as otherwise provided in this
Trust Agreement, the Trustee shall have the investment powers outlined in
Appendix B and authority with respect to all property constituting a part of the
Trust in its discretion.

SECTION 6.
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         DISPOSITION OF INCOME.

         (a) During the term of this Trust, all income received by the Trust,
net of expenses and taxes, shall be accumulated and reinvested.

SECTION 7.
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         ACCOUNTING BY TRUSTEE.

(a)      Trustee shall keep accurate and detailed records of all investments,
receipts, disbursements, and all other transactions required to be made,
including such specific records as shall be agreed upon in writing between
Company and Trustee within sixty (60) days following the close of each calendar
year and within thirty (30) days after the removal or resignation of Trustee,
Trustee shall deliver to Company a written account of its administration of the
Trust during such year or during the period from the close of the 


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last preceding year to the date of such removal or resignation, setting forth
all investments, receipts, disbursements and other transactions effected by it,
including a description of all securities and investments purchased and sold
with the cost or net proceeds of such purchases or sales (accrued interest paid
or receivable being shown separately), and showing all cash, securities and
other property held in the Trust at the end of such year or as of the date of
such removal or resignation, as the case may be.

(b)      Upon the expiration of one hundred and twenty (120) days from the date
of filing such annual or other account, Trustee shall be forever released and
discharged from all liability and accountability to anyone with respect to the
propriety of all acts and transactions shown in such account, except with
respect to such acts or transactions as to which Company shall within such one
hundred and twenty (120) day period file with Trustee written objections.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Trustee shall have the right to apply at any time
to a court of competent jurisdiction for the judicial settlement of Trustee's
account, and, in any case, it shall be necessary to join as parties thereto only
Trustee and Company; and any judgment or decree which may be entered therein
shall be conclusive upon all persons having or claiming to have any interest in
the Trust or under a Plan.

SECTION 8.
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         RESPONSIBILITY OF TRUSTEE.

         (a) Trustee shall act with the care, skill, prudence and diligence
under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in like
capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an
enterprise of like character and with like aims, provided, however, that Trustee
shall incur no liability to any person for any action taken pursuant to a
direction, request or approval given by Company which is contemplated by, and in
conformity with, the terms of the Plan(s) or this Trust and is given in writing
by Company. In the event of a dispute between Company and a party, Trustee may
apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to resolve the dispute.

         (b) If Trustee undertakes or defends any litigation arising in
connection with this Trust, Company agrees to indemnify Trustee against
Trustee's costs, expenses and liabilities (including, without limitation,
attorneys' fees and expenses) relating thereto and to be primarily liable for
such payments. If Company does not pay such costs, expenses and liabilities in a
reasonably timely manner, Trustee may obtain payment from the Trust.

         (c) Trustee may consult with legal counsel (who may also be counsel for
Company generally) with respect to any of its duties or obligations hereunder.

         (d) Trustee may with the consent of the Company, which consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld, hire agents, accountants, actuaries, investment
advisors, financial 


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consultants or other professionals to assist it in performing any of its duties
or obligations hereunder, and to pay any such person or entity their reasonable
fees for its services.

         (e)      Trustee shall have, without exclusion, all powers conferred on
Trustees by applicable law, unless expressly provided otherwise herein,
provided, however, that if an insurance policy is held as an asset of the Trust,
Trustee shall have no power to name a beneficiary of the policy other than the
Trust, to assign the policy (as distinct from conversion of the policy to a
different form) other than to a successor Trustee, or to loan to any person the
proceeds of any borrowing against such policy.

         (f)      However, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8(e) above,
Trustee may loan to Company the proceeds of any borrowing against an insurance
policy held as an asset of the Trust.

         (g)      Notwithstanding any powers granted to Trustee pursuant to this
Trust Agreement or to applicable law, Trustee shall not have any power that
could give this Trust the objective of carrying on a business and dividing the
gains therefrom, within the meaning of Section 301.7701-2 of the Procedure and
Administrative Regulations promulgated pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.

         (h)      Company shall indemnify and hold harmless Trustee from and
against any loss, cost, damage, expense or liability (including reasonable
attorney fees) it incurs arising out of any alleged or actual act, or failure to
act, on the part of any alleged or actual act, or failure to act, on the part of
the Trustee pursuant to the direction of the Company, any Plan administrator or
any Investment Manager.

         (i)      Communications and instructions

                  (i)      Any action by Company pursuant to this Trust
Agreement shall be satisfactorily evidenced to Trustee by a certified copy of a
resolution of the Board of Directors of Company or by any certificate, notice,
order, request, instruction, direction or objection of Company. After the
execution of this Trust Agreement, Company shall promptly file with Trustee a
certified list of the names and specimen signatures of the officers of Company
and any delegee authorized to act for it or with respect to the Plan. Company
shall promptly notify Trustee of the addition or deletion of any person's name
to or from such list. Until actual receipt by Trustee of notice that any such
person is no longer authorized to so act, Trustee may continue to rely on the
authority of any such person.

                  (ii)     A plan administrator may certify to Trustee the names
of persons authorized to act for it in relation to Trustee. Until actual receipt
by Trustee of notice that any such person is no longer authorized to so act,
Trustee may continue to rely on the authority of any such person.

                  (iii)    Any certificates, notices, orders, requests,
instructions, directions, or objections of Company, any plan administrator, any
Investment Manager or any other person authorized to act pursuant to this Trust
Agreement shall be satisfactorily 


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evidenced to Trustee by a signed, written statement (provided, however, that
Trustee may, in its sole discretion, accept oral notices, orders, requests,
instructions, directions and objections subject to confirmation in writing), and
Trustee shall be fully protected for acting in accordance therewith or for
failing to act in the absence thereof.

                  (iv)     Communications to Trustee shall be sent to Trustee's
office or to such other address as Trustee shall specify in writing, and such
communications to Trustee shall be binding upon any certificate, notice, order,
request, instruction, direction or objection purporting to have been signed on
behalf of any authorized person which Trustee believes to be genuine and to have
been executed by any such person.

                  (v)      Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
Trustee shall be fully protected in acting in accordance with any directions or
instructions with respect to securities transactions) including, without
limitation, the affirmation and/or confirmation of such transactions) received
by it through a system or arrangement for the coordination of securities
transaction settlements executed by the Depository Trust Company or by any other
central securities depository, securities clearing organization or book-entry
system which serves to link investment managers, securities brokers and
custodian banks, pursuant to an agreement entered into by Trustee and an
Investment Manager or Company, as the case may be, to the same extent as if any
such directions or instructions were in writing.

         (j)      Company shall maintain and furnish Trustee with such reports,
documents and information as shall be required by Trustee to perform its duties
and discharge its responsibilities under this Trust Agreement, including without
limitation a certified copy of the Plan and any and all amendments thereto and
written reports setting forth the name, address, date of birth, and social
security and tax identification numbers of Plan participants and their
beneficiaries, and a listing of Plan participants' accrued benefit under the
Plan. Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the most recent reports, documents
and information furnished to it by Company. Company shall be required to notify
Trustee as to the termination of the employment of any Plan participant by
death, retirement or otherwise.

SECTION 9.
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         COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES OF TRUSTEE.

         Company shall pay all administrative and Trustee's fees and expenses.
If not so paid, the fees and expenses shall be paid from the Trust; provided
however, that in the event the assets of the Trust are insufficient to pay any
such fees or expenses, Company shall promptly pay any such fees or expenses.


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SECTION 10.
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         RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE.

         (a) Trustee may resign at any time by written notice to Company, which
shall be effective sixty (60) days after receipt of such notice unless Company
and Trustee agree otherwise.

         (b) Prior to a change in control, Trustee may be removed by Company on
thirty (30) days notice or upon shorter notice accepted by Trustee.

         (c) Upon resignation or removal of Trustee and appointment of a
successor Trustee, all assets shall subsequently be transferred to the successor
Trustee. The transfer shall be completed within ninety (90) days after receipt
of notice of resignation, removal or transfer, unless Company extends the time
limit.

         (d) If Trustee resigns or is removed, a successor shall be appointed,
in accordance with Section 11 hereof, by the effective date of resignation or
removal under paragraphs (a) or (b) of this section. If no such appointment has
been made, Trustee may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for
appointment of a successor or for instructions. All expenses of Trustee in
connection with the proceeding shall be allowed as administrative expenses of
the Trust.

SECTION 11.
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         APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.

         (a) If Trustee resigns or is removed in accordance with Section 10(a)
or (b) hereof, Company may appoint any third party, such as a bank trust
department or other party that may be granted corporate trustee powers under
state law, as a successor to replace Trustee upon resignation or removal. The
appointment shall be effective when accepted in writing by the new Trustee, who
shall have all of the rights and powers of the former Trustee, including
ownership rights in the Trust assets. The former Trustee shall execute any
instrument necessary or reasonably requested by Company or the successor Trustee
to evidence the transfer.

         (b) The successor Trustee need not review the records and acts of any
prior Trustee and may retain or dispose of existing Trust assets, subject to
Sections 7 and 8 hereof. The successor Trustee shall not be responsible for and
Company shall indemnify and defend the successor Trustee from any claim or
liability resulting from any action or inaction of any prior Trustee or from any
other past event, or any condition existing at the time it becomes successor
Trustee.


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SECTION 12.
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         AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION.

         (a) This Trust Agreement may be amended by a written instrument
executed by Trustee and Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such
amendment shall conflict with the terms of the Plan(s) or shall make the Trust
revocable after it has become irrevocable in accordance with Section 1(b)
hereof.

         (b) The Trust shall not terminate until the date on which Plan
participants and their beneficiaries are no longer entitled to benefits pursuant
to the terms of the Plan(s), unless sooner revoked in accordance with Section
1(b) hereof. Upon termination of the Trust, any assets remaining in the Trust
shall be returned to Company.

          (c) Upon written approval of Plan participants or beneficiaries
entitled to payment of benefits pursuant to the terms of the Plan(s), Company
may terminate this Trust prior to the time all benefit payments under the
Plan(s) have been made. All assets in the Trust at termination shall be returned
to Company.

         (d) No section of this Trust Agreement may be amended by Company for
three (3) years following a change of control, as defined herein.

SECTION 13.
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         MISCELLANEOUS.

         (a) Any provision of this Trust Agreement prohibited by law shall be
ineffective to the extent of any such prohibition, without invalidating the
remaining provisions hereof.

         (b) Benefits payable to Plan participants and their beneficiaries under
this Trust Agreement may not be anticipated, assigned (either at law or in
equity), alienated, pledged, encumbered or subjected to attachment, garnishment,
levy, execution or other legal or equitable process.

         (c) This Trust Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachussetts.

         (d) RIGHTS UPON A CHANGE IN CONTROL. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement to the contrary, upon a "Change in Control," as
hereinafter defined, this Agreement may not be terminated (except by mutual
consent of the Company and employee) by reason of the termination of the
Employee's employment with the Corporation before the later of (i) the Policy
anniversary date next following the Employee's 65th birthday, or (ii) the
expiration of fifteen (15) Policy years from the date of the Policy, unless the
Parties mutually consent to the continuation of this Agreement at 


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that time. For purposes of this Agreement, a "Change in Control" shall be deemed
to have occurred only if any of the following events occur:

(i) any "person," as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), (other than
the Company, any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee
benefit plan of the Company, or any corporation owned directly or indirectly by
the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportion as their
ownership of stock of the Company) is or becomes the "beneficial owner" (as
defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
securities of the Company representing 30% or more of the combined voting power
of the Company's then outstanding securities; or

(ii) individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the Board (as of the
date hereof, the "Incumbent Board") cease for any reason to constitute at least
a majority of the Board, provided that any person becoming a director subsequent
to the date hereof whose election, or nomination for election by the Company's
stockholders, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the directors
then comprising the Incumbent Board (other than an election or nomination of an
individual whose initial assumption of office is in connection with an actual or
threatened election context relating to the election of the directors of the
Company, as such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 of Regulation 14A under the
Exchange Act) shall be, for purposes of this Agreement, considered as though
such person were a member of the Incumbent Board; or

(iii) the stockholders of the Company approve a merger or consolidation of the
Company with any other corporation, other than (A) a merger or consolidation
which would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding
immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining
outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving
entity) more than 80% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of
the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately after such merger
or consolidation or (B) a merger or consolidation effected to implement a
recapitalization of the Company, (or similar transaction) in which no "person"
(as herein above defined) acquires more than 50% of the combined voting power of
the Company's then outstanding securities; or

(iv) the stockholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation of
the Company or an agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or
substantially all of the Company's assets.

         (e) Attached to this Agreement as Appendix B are the administrative
guidelines that will govern the day to day activities of the Trustee. Such
guidelines may be amended at any time upon the mutual consent of the parties.


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SECTION 14.
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         EFFECTIVE DATE.

         This Trust Agreement is signed on this 11th day of December, 1995, to
be effective on the 11th day of December, 1995.


ANALOG DEVICES, INC.                        BOATMENS' TRUST COMPANY

By: /s/ William A. Martin                   By: /s/ Linda Lockwood
    --------------------------------            --------------------------------

Title: TREASURER                            Title: VICE PRESIDENT
       -----------------------------               -----------------------------



                                    APPENDIX A
                                    ----------


THE COMPANY HAS ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING NON-QUALIFED DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN(S):


(1)  The Analog Devices, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan*.


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*  Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's Registration
   Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 33-64849) filed with the Commission on
   December 8, 1995.

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                                                                      Appendix B


                                  [LOGO] ANALOG
                                         DEVICES       



                     RABBI TRUST ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES

                             AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1995


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                                    CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION................................................................  1
DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUST....................................................  2
COVERED PLANS...............................................................  2
   Analog Devices, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan..........................  2
FINANCIAL ASSUMPTIONS UPON A CHANGE OF CONTROL..............................  3
   Applied Rates............................................................  3
PLAN ASSUMPTIONS............................................................  4
   Analog Devices, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan..........................  4
INVESTMENT GUIDELINES.......................................................  5
   Purpose..................................................................  5
   Investment Objectives....................................................  5
   Other Investment Powers..................................................  6
ALLOCATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS AFTER A CHANGE OF CONTROL.......................  8
   Allocation After Change in Control Flowchart.............................  9
PROCEDURES.................................................................. 10
EXHIBITS
   Exhibit A - Deferred Compensation Plan Document
   Exhibit B - Deferred Compensation Plan Participant and Account Balance
               List


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                                  INTRODUCTION
                                  ------------

Analog Devices, Inc. ("Analog") has entered into a Trust Agreement with
Boatmen's Trust Company ("Boatmen's") to create a trust (the "Trust") to aid
Analog, except in case of insolvency or bankruptcy, in meeting its obligations
under the terms and conditions of certain unfunded employee benefit plans. These
plans have been established and maintained for the benefit of a select group of
management and/or highly compensated employees and former employees of Analog.
Analog or its benefits consultant, The Todd Organization of Pittsburgh, Inc.
("Consultant") will provide Boatmen's in its capacity as ("Trustee"), on at
least an annual basis, with Administrative Guidelines (the "Guidelines") that
will be used by the Trustee in the administration of the Trusts.

These Guidelines are designed to provide Analog, its executives, consultant and
the Trustee with the necessary financial and benefit administrative direction to
be applied to the determination and administration of benefits immediately prior
to and subsequent to a change in control. In addition to administrative
guidelines, Analog and/or its benefits consultant shall maintain and will
provide the Trustee with individual participant data necessary for the Trustee
to determine, subsequent to a Change in Control, (as defined in the Trust
Agreement and hereinafter referred to as a "Change in Control") the time and
form of payment of benefits, if any, payable to individual participants. Analog,
its executives and consultant, Boatmen's, and the Plan's participants understand
that Boatmen's as Trustee is not a Party to any of the Plans and has no duties
or obligations with respect to the administration and operation of the Plans.
Moreover, the Trustee will not be responsible for the actual determination of
benefits. Benefit determination will be made by Analog and/or its consultant.

The Guidelines are to be reviewed by Analog no less frequently than yearly. The
most recent revision of the Guidelines delivered to Boatmen's, prior to a Change
in Control, shall govern the actions of Analog and the Trustee subsequent to
such Change in Control. Where these Guidelines may conflict with the Trust
Agreements, the covered plans or applicable state and federal law, the Trust
Agreements, the covered plans and/or applicable law shall govern.


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                            DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUST
                            ------------------------

The Trust is intended to be a grantor trust with the corpus and income of the
Trust treated as assets and income of Analog for federal income tax purposes.
The Trust shall be irrevocable, and except as provided in Section 3 of the
Trust, Trust assets shall be held for the exclusive purpose of providing
benefits to participants and their beneficiaries. Except as provided in Section
3 of the Trust, no part of the income or corpus of the Trust shall be
recoverable by or for the benefit of Analog.



                                  COVERED PLANS
                                  -------------

The Trust will cover the Analog employee benefit plan listed below. This plan is
intended to be a "non-qualified" plan covering a select group of present and/or
former highly compensated or management employees, and to be "unfunded" for
ERISA and tax purposes. The list of covered plans may be modified by Analog from
time to time, prior to a Change in Control, as plans are added or terminated at
the discretion of Analog management.


ANALOG DEVICES, INC. DEFERRED COMPENSATION  PLAN

     The corporation provides eligible executives with the opportunity to defer
     compensation above the qualified plan limits and provides for employer
     matching contributions denied due to government limits. The restoration
     portion provides retirement benefits to the extent that contributions made
     under the Analog TIP are limited by either government limits on maximum
     benefits (Section 415) or government limits on the maximum amount of
     compensation that can be included when determining benefits (Section
     401(a)(17)).

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                 FINANCIAL ASSUMPTIONS UPON A CHANGE OF CONTROL
                 ----------------------------------------------

This section is designed to provide the applicable financial assumptions to be
used by Analog and/or its consultants to determine the amount of benefits and
the present value thereof upon the occurrence of a Change in Control. These
assumptions affect the level of funds required to meet benefits due participants
and beneficiaries as to present values, assumed future interest earnings, future
interest credits on deferral accounts, actuarial tables, etc.


APPLIED RATES

       Escalation of Government Limits                          3.00%

       Escalation of Government Benefits                        3.00%

       Salary Escalation Assumption                             6.50%

       Earnings of the Trust (Net)                              5.00%

     FUTURE GROWTH ON DEFERRED COMPENSATION ACCOUNTS

       *  Actual return credited by the underlying TIP mutual funds mirrored in 
          the Deferred Compensation Plan.

       *  Moody's index account as defined in the Deferred Compensation Plan
          document.

     MORTALITY TABLE(S)

     1983 Group Annuity Mortality Table for Males (1983 GAMM)


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                                PLAN ASSUMPTIONS
                                ----------------

ANALOG DEVICES, INC. DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

     ELIGIBILITY

     Analog Employees and/or retirees, who are executives or highly compensated,
     with a benefit in any covered plan and/or plans as of the date of Change in
     Control, provided such employee has been identified as a participant in
     said plan or plans.

     BENEFIT PAYMENT

     As per the provisions of the nonqualified plan under which the deferral was
     made.

     FUTURE INTEREST CREDITS UNTIL BENEFITS ARE PAID

     Future interest credits should be based on the applicable plan's provisions
     to determine Analog's obligation to the participant.

     DEFERRAL PLAN CREDITING RATES

     Deferred awards will be credited with interest credits based upon the
     investment allocation selected in writing by the plan participant.


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                              INVESTMENT GUIDELINES
                              ---------------------

PURPOSE

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide the Trustee with the necessary
parameters to establish and implement an investment policy consistent with the
objectives of the covered plans, at a level of risk the Company deems acceptable
to the participants of said plans.


INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES

The Trust assets must be invested with the care, skill and diligence that a
prudent man acting in this capacity would undertake. The Investment Managers'
primary objective will be to provide stability of principal and income. The
Company prefers consistency of year-to-year results rather than subjecting the
Trust assets to a high degree of volatility.

RESTRICTIONS

In the event that the Company fails to provide the Trustee with written
investment guidelines or if a Change of Control as herein defined in Section
13(d) occurs, the assets of the trust shall be invested subject to the following
restrictions:

     1. The trust may make unlimited purchases of U.S. Treasury obligations or
        issues of agencies guaranteed by the U.S. Government.

     2. The trust may invest no more than 25% of the portfolio at market in
        Commercial Paper, and no more than 5% of the portfolio at market in the
        securities of a single company. Commercial Paper must have S&P "A-1" or
        Moody's "P-1" rating or higher.

     3. The trust may invest no more than 25% of the portfolio in Certificates
        of Deposit and no more than 5% of the portfolio in a single bank. Any
        bank used must have capitalization of $500,000,000 or more and have a
        Moody's long term deposit rating of A-1 or better.

     4. The trust may invest no more than 25% of the portfolio at market in
        Corporate Debt issues and no more than 5% of the portfolio at market in
        the debt issues of a single company. Issues purchased by the Trustee
        must have an S&P's "AA" or Moody's "Aa" rating or higher.

     5. The trust may invest no more than 50% of the portfolio at market in
        mutual funds whose stated investment objective is to replicate the
        return of the S&P500 stock index.

     6. The trust may invest no more than 25% of the portfolio at market in bond
        mutual funds whose stated investment objective is to replicate the
        return of the Lehman Brothers Single A Intermediate Corporate Bond
        Index.

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     7. Investment managers are prohibited from investing in private placements,
        from speculating in fixed income or interest rate futures, and from
        arbitrage or other specialized investments.


OTHER INVESTMENT POWERS

1.  To be the owner of any individual life insurance contracts or individual or
    group annuity contracts and to take such action with respect to such
    contracts as the Trustee deems necessary to carry out the terms of the Trust
    Agreement, including but not limited to payment of insurance premiums and
    repayment of any policy loans.

2.  To make, execute, and deliver, as Trustee, any and all deeds, leases, notes,
    bonds, guarantees, mortgages, conveyances, contracts, waivers, releases or
    other instruments in writing necessary or proper for the accomplishment of
    any of the foregoing powers.

3.  To cause the securities or other property which may comprise the trust
    estate, in whole or in part, to be registered in the name of Trustee, or in
    the name of Trustee as Trustee, or in the name of a nominee or nominees,
    with or without disclosing the Trust, or (in the case of securities) to take
    and keep the same unregistered and to retain them or any part of them in
    such manner that they will pass by delivery.

4.  To open and maintain one or more separate brokerage accounts for the proper
    investment of the securities of the trust estate; and to instruct any broker
    or brokerage firm utilized by Trustee to open and maintain such separate
    brokerage accounts.

5.  To exercise, or refrain from the exercise of, all conversion, subscription,
    voting and other rights of any nature pertaining to any securities of any
    corporation held as part of the trust estate, (including securities of
    Trustee or any affiliate of Trustee) to participate in foreclosures,
    mergers, liquidations and similar transactions with respect to such
    securities; to grant proxies, discretionary or otherwise, in respect of such
    securities; and to take all actions in complying with applicable securities
    laws and regulations.

(6) To determine whether any money or other property coming into the hands of
    Trustee shall be considered as part of the principal or income of the trust
    estate, and to apportion between such principal and income any loss or
    expenditure in connection with the trust estate as Trustee deems just and
    equitable (including the right to specifically allocate to any beneficiary
    for any fiscal year capital gains incurred during such fiscal year.

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(7)  To accept by transfer or conveyance any property, satisfactory to Trustee,
     from any source, to be added to and become a part of the trust estate,
     subject to all of the terms and conditions provided in this Trust
     Agreement.

(8)  To maintain in the trust estate an amount or amounts of uninvested cash,
     from time to time, as may be reasonably necessary to provide for future
     payments to be made from the trust estate.

(9)  To commence or defend suits or legal proceedings and to represent the Trust
     in suits or legal proceedings in any court or before any other body or
     tribunal provided, however, that Trustee shall have no obligation to take
     any such action unless it shall be first indemnified to its satisfaction.

(10) To appoint one or more individuals or corporations as a custodian or
     subtrustee of any property, and as part of its reimbursable expenses under
     this Trust Agreement, to pay the reasonable compensation and expenses of
     any such custodian or subtrustee.

(11) Generally to do all acts, exclusive of acts involving administration of the
     Plan, which Trustee may deem necessary or desirable for the protection of
     the Trust.


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              ALLOCATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS AFTER A CHANGE OF CONTROL
              -----------------------------------------------------

Analog intends that Trust assets be applied in proportion to the present value
of the respective accrued benefits under the covered plan. Accordingly, Analog's
consultant will annually determine the vested account balances, which represent
the present value of the aggregate benefit liabilities under the covered plan,
and compare such liabilities to the value of the assets in the Trust.

Subsequent to a Change of Control and to the extent that Trust assets are not
equal to the net present value of liabilities for all benefits under the covered
plan as of the date of an accredited actuary's valuation immediately subsequent
to such Change of Control, payment of each benefit (in pay status) for the
ensuing year will be reduced based on the ratio of the present value of such
benefit to the total benefit liabilities times the percent that the total
liabilities are funded (not to exceed 100%).

To the extent that Trust assets exceed the net present value of liabilities of
all benefits under the covered plan as of any such annual valuation, the excess
assets will be applied pro rata to make up, to the extent possible, any deficits
in benefit payments to participants in prior years arising from the operations
of the preceding paragraph. Excess assets remaining after all plan liabilities
have been satisfied will revert to the Company.


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ALLOCATION AFTER CHANGE IN CONTROL FLOWCHART

                     --------------------------------------
                          TRUST ASSETS AFTER CHANGE IN
                                     CONTROL
                     --------------------------------------

                     --------------------------------------
                         ACTUARIALLY DETERMINE VESTED
                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
STEP 1                    BALANCES FOR ALL ACTIVE AND
                              RETIRED PARTICIPANTS
                     --------------------------------------

                     --------------------------------------
                        COMPARE TRUST ASSETS WITH VESTED
STEP 2                    PLAN BALANCES UNDER THE PLAN
                     --------------------------------------

                     --------------------------------------
                         COMPANY CONTRIBUTES SHORTFALL,
                      IF ANY, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SEC. 10.1
STEP 3                    OF PLAN DOCUMENT, AS MAY BE
                           AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME
                     --------------------------------------

                     --------------------------------------
                       ((TOTAL TRUST ASSETS LESS RESERVE
STEP 4                  FOR TRUST EXPENSES)/VESTED PLAN
                                   BALANCES)=
                         PAYOUT % FOR THE NEXT CALENDAR
                                      YEAR
STEP 5               --------------------------------------

- --------------------------------                 -------------------------------
                                                           EXCESS ASSETS?

     INSUFFICIENT ASSETS?                        PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE MAXIMIMUM
                                                  BENEFITS PER PLAN PROVISIONS.

                                                  PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE PRO RATA
                                                 MAKE UP FOR BENEFITS REDUCED IN

REDUCE ALL PARTICIPANT BENEIFITS                           PRIOR YEARS
       PORPORTIONATELY       
                                                   EXCESS ASSETS RETURNED TO
                                                             COMPANY
- --------------------------------                 -------------------------------


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                                   PROCEDURES
                                   ----------

Prior to and at Change in Control a great number of tasks will have to be
performed. These include everything from notifying the Trustee that a Change in
Control has taken place, to the calculation of benefits, to the transfer of
dollars and benefit detail.

This section spells out these procedures and lists those parties responsible for
completion/execution.

CHANGE IN CONTROL IS THREATENED

Once a Change in Control is threatened, as determined by the CEO and General
Counsel, the Change in Control task force will be mobilized. This task force is
to include appropriate representatives from the following departments and
consulting firms:


     Analog                Legal                            William Wise, Esq.
                                                            Assistant Counsel
                           Tax                              Rich Curran,
                                                            Director of Taxes
                           Finance                          William A. Martin,
                                                            Treasurer
                           Employee Benefits                Kathy Pittman,
                                                            Benefits Manager


     Actuarial             Current Actuary                  Towers Perrin


     Todd Organization     Engagement Principal             Gary L. Warren
                           Director of Client Services      Michael Evankovich


     Boatmen's             Trust Officer or Liaison



     Task Force Leader                                      William A. Martin,
                                                            Treasurer


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                                    EXHIBITS
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               EXHIBIT A TO RABBI TRUST ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES:


                       DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN DOCUMENT*



- ---------------

*  Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's Registration
   Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 33-64849) filed with the Commission on
   December 8, 1995.
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              EXHIBIT B TO RABBI TRUST ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES:



         DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN PARTICIPANT AND ACCOUNT BALANCE LIST

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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.5

                              ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
                                 TRUST AGREEMENT
                                       FOR
                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN


                                 Amendment No. 1
                                 ---------------

                                December 3, 1996


     WHEREAS, Analog Devices, Inc. ("Analog") and Boatmens' Trust Company
("Trustee") entered into a Trust Agreement dated December 11, 1995 (the "Trust
Agreement") for the purpose, among others, to provide Analog with a source of
funds to assist it in the meeting of its liabilities under the Analog Devices,
Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan; and

     WHEREAS, Analog and the Trustee wish to amend the Trust Agreement pursuant
to the power reserved by them to do so in Section 12(a) of the Trust Agreement.

     NOW, THEREFORE, the Trust Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the
first sentence of Section 5(a) with the following sentence, effective as of
December ____, 1996:

          "The Trustee may invest in Common Stock issued by the
     Company."

     EXECUTED as of the 3rd day of December, 1996.

     ANALOG DEVICES, INC.               BOATMENS' TRUST COMPANY

     
     By:                                By:
         ------------------------------    -----------------------------
     Title:                             Title:
           ----------------------------       --------------------------


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                                                                     EXHIBIT 5.1


                                  HALE AND DORR
                               Counsellors at Law

                  60 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
                         617-526-6000 - FAX 617-526-5000



                                December 11, 1996




     Analog Devices, Inc.
     One Technology Way
     Norwood, MA 02062-9106

     Dear Sirs:

          This opinion is furnished to you in connection with a Registration
     Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement"), filed with the
     Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities
     Act of 1933, as amended, for the registration of 1,000,000 shares of Common
     Stock, $.16 2/3 par value per share (the "Shares"), of Analog Devices,
     Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the "Company").

          We have examined the Registration Statement and all exhibits thereto,
     all as filed with the Commission. We have also examined and relied upon the
     originals, or copies of minutes of meetings or actions taken by unanimous
     written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company, the By-laws of
     the Company and the Restated Articles of Organization of the Company, as
     amended, and such other documents and instruments as in our judgment are
     necessary or appropriate to enable us to render the opinions expressed
     below.

          In our examination of the foregoing documents, we have assumed (i) the
     genuineness of all signatures and the authenticity of any documents
     submitted to us as originals, (ii) the conformity to the originals of any
     documents submitted to us as conformed or photostatic copies and (iii) the
     authenticity of the originals of the latter documents.

          We have not made an independent review of the laws of any state or
     jurisdiction other than the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United
     States. Accordingly, we express no opinion herein

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     with respect to the laws of any state or jurisdiction other than the
     Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States.

          Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have
     been duly authorized and will, when issued and sold by the Company as
     provided in the Registration Statement, be validly issued, fully paid and
     nonassessable.

          We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as part of the
     Registration Statement and to the use of our name therein and in the
     related Prospectus under the caption "Legal Matters."


                                               Very truly yours,



                                               HALE AND DORR

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.2



                         CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

          We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption "Experts" in
     the Registration Statement (Form S-3) and related Prospectus of Analog
     Devices, Inc. for the registration of 1,000,000 shares of its common stock
     and to the incorporation by reference therein of our report dated November
     28, 1995 (except for the fifth paragraph of Note 4 as to which the date is
     December 18, 1995), with respect to the consolidated financial statements
     and schedule of Analog Devices, Inc. included in its Annual Report (Form
     10-K) for the year ended October 28, 1995, filed with the Securities and
     Exchange Commission.

                                                 /s/ Ernst & Young LLP

                                                 ERNST & YOUNG LLP

     Boston, Massachusetts
     December 6, 1996