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William H. Gross

Summary

Since you are still reading, I hope this long-winded trip was worth it. The
development of an 1C is fun and challenging. I spent most of this article
describing the circuit design because I like circuit design. I hope, how-
ever, that I have made it clear how important the other parts of the devel-
opment process are. There are still more phases of development that I
have not mentioned; pricing, press releases, advertising, and applications
support are all part of a successful new product development. At the time
of this writing, the video fader had not yet reached these phases. Since I
am not always accurate at describing the future, I will not even try. Those
of you who want to know more about the fader should see the LT1251
data sheet.
At this time I would like to thank all of the people who made the video
fader a reality and especially Julie Brown for mask design, Jim Sousae
for characterization, Dung (Zoom) Nguyen for test development, and
Judd JVIurkland in product engineering. It takes a team to make things
happen and this is an excellent one.

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