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About the Authors
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
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