Page 8 - Analog Circuit Design Art, Science, and Personalities

Contents
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Preface xi
Contributors xiii

One Introduction
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1. Barometers and Analog Design 3
Alexander Calandra
2. Analogs Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, or
Metaphors of the Continuum 5
George A. Philbrick
3. It's An Analog World-Or Is it? 15
Dan Sheingold
4. Is Analog Circuit Design Dead? 17
Jim Williams

5. On Being the Machine 23
Bernard Gordon
6. Reflections of a Dinosaur 31
Samuel Wilensky
7. Max Wien, Mr. Hewlett, and a Rainy Sunday Afternoon 43
Jim Williams

Three The Making of an Analog Engineer
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8. True Analog Circuit Design 59
Tom Hornak
9. The Story of the P2 (The First Successful Solid-state Operational
Amplifier With Picoampere Input Currents) 67
Bob Pease

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