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您需要 登录 才可以下载或查看,没有账号?注册  Bonnie Baker (Chapters 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, and Appendix A) writes the monthly
 “ Baker ’ s Best ” for EDN magazine. She has been involved with analog and digital
 designs and systems for over 20 years. Bonnie started as a Manufacturing Product
 Engineer supporting analog products at Burr-Brown. From there, Bonnie moved up
 to IC Design, Analog Division Strategic Marketer, and then Corporate Applications
 Engineering Manager. In 1998, she joined Microchip Technology and served as their
 analog division Analog/mixed signal Applications Engineering manager and Staff
 Architect Engineer for one of their PICmicro divisions. This expanded her background
 to not only include analog applications, but also the microcontroller. She is now, back
 in the Burr-Brown fold, working for Texas Instruments in their Precision Analog
 Division.
 Along with her expertise in analog design, Bonnie has a drive to share her knowledge
 and experience and has written over 250 articles, design notes, and application notes.
 In addition to being an EDN columnist, she is also a frequent presenter at technical
 conferences and shows.
 
 Richard S. Burwen (Chapter 9) received a S.B. (cum laude) in physics in 1949
 and an A.M. in engineering sciences and applied physics in 1950 from Harvard. He was
 one of three founders of Analog Devices and worked as a consultant to the company,
 designing several of the circuits for its initial product lines. Other companies with which
 he was associated in their beginning phases included Mark Levinson Audio Systems,
 Cello Ltd., Novametrix Medical Systems, and KLH Burwen Research. He became a
 founder of Copley Controls in 1984 and designed many of the company ’ s products. In
 the case of all the companies he helped start, Richard maintained his independence by
 working as a consultant in his own laboratory. He designed his home and laboratory
 in 1965, in Lexington, Massachusetts, around his 20,000 watt, 169-speaker, 5-channel
 recording and reproducing studio. Since retiring from circuit design consulting in 2002,
 he has been even more active consolidating his 63 years of audio development into
 audio digital signal processing software described at www.burwenaudio.com and
 www.burwenbobcat.com .
 
 Sergio Franco (Chapter 12) is a professor of electrical engineering at San Francisco
 State University, where he teaches microelectronics courses and acts as an industry
 consultant. Prior to assuming his current professorship, Sergio was employed at Zeltron,
 Zanussi ’ s Electronics Institute (Udine, Italy). He received a B.S. in physics from the
 University of Rome, a M.S. in physics from Clark University, and a Ph.D. in computer
 science from the University of Illinois. Sergio is a member of the IEEE, and in his spare
 time enjoys classical music, gardening, and mountain hiking.
 Phil Perkins (Chapter 2) is a Fellow of LTX Corporation, Norwood, Massachusetts.
 He was a cofounder of LTX in 1976. Before LTX he was an engineer at Teradyne, Inc.,
 Boston, Massachusetts. His work includes designing analog instrumentation for the
 LTX semiconductor test systems. His designs include V/I Sources, Test Heads, and
 DSP measuring instruments. He holds a patent for “ Mixed signal device under test
 board interface ” . He received Bachelor ’ s, Master, and Engineer degrees in Electrical
 Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 Phil ’ s interests include walking in the woods looking for wildfl owers, church activities,
 home computer hobbying plus consulting for friends. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts
 with his lovely wife, Laurie. Phil can be contacted at phil_perkins@ltx.com.
 Dr. Marc Thompson (Chapters 1, 3, and 5) was born on Vinalhaven Island, Maine.
 He specializes in custom R/D, analysis, and failure investigations into multi-disciplinary
 electrical, magnetic, and electronic systems at his engineering consulting company
 Thompson Consulting, Inc. in Harvard, Massachusetts. He is also an Adjunct Professor in
 the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
 where he teaches graduate-level courses in advanced analog circuit design, power
 electronics, electric motors, and power distribution.
 Dr. Thompson is author of a textbook entitled “ Intuitive Analog Circuit Design ” ,
 published in 2006 by Elsevier Science/Newnes. Another text entitled “ Power Quality in
 Electronic Systems ” , was co-authored with Dr. Alexander Kusko, and was published by
 McGraw-Hill in 2007.
 Dr. Thompson has seven U.S. patents and is a Firefi ghter with the Harvard, Massachusetts
 Fire Department, and has the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his spare time he enjoys biking, travel, and
 repairing his c. 1899 vintage house in Maine.
 Jim Williams (Chapter 18) was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from
 1968 to 1979, concentrating exclusively on analog circuit design. His teaching and
 research interests involved applications of analog circuit techniques to biochemical and
 biomedical problems.
 
 Concurrently, he consulted for U.S. and foreign concerns and governments, specializing
 in analog circuits. In 1979, he moved to National Semiconductor Corporation, continuing
 his work in the analog area with the Linear Integrated Circuits Group. In 1982, he
 joined Linear Technology Corporation as staff scientist, where he is presently employed.
 Interests include product defi nition, development, and support. Jim has authored over
 350 publications relating to analog circuit design. Awards include the 1992 Innovator of
 the Year Award from EDN magazine and election to the Electronic Design Hall of Fame
 in 2002.
 His spare-time interests include sports cars, collecting antique scientifi c instruments, art,
 and restoring and using old Tektronix oscilloscopes. He lives in Palo Alto, CA with his
 wife, son, and 84 Tektronix oscilloscopes.
 Steve Winder (Chapters 6, 7, 10, and 11) is now a European Field Applications
 Engineer for Supertex Inc. Steve works alongside design engineers throughout Europe to
 design circuits using components made by Supertex, a US-based manufacturer of high
 voltage MOSFETs and CMOS ICs.
 Prior to joining Supertex in 2002, Steve was, for many years, a team leader at British
 Telecom research laboratories. There he designed analog circuits for wideband
 transmission systems, mostly high frequency, and designed many active and passive
 fi lters.
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