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Contributors

amplifiers, high-speed amplifiers, comparators, and other high-speed
products. Mr. Gross has been designing integrated circuits for the semi-
conductor industry for 20 years, first at National Semiconductor, includ-
ing three years living and working in Japan, and later at Elantec. He has a
BSEE from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona and an
MSEE from the University of Arizona at Tucson. He is married and the
father of two teenage sons, whose sports activities keep him quite busy.

BARRY HARVEY is a designer of bipolar analog integrated circuits at
Elantec, Inc. His first electronic projects were dismantling vacuum tube
television sets as a child and later in life rebuilding them. These days he
tortures silicon under a microscope.
GREGORY T.A. KOVACS received a BASc degree in electrical engineering
from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia,
in 1984; an MS degree in bioengineering from the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley, in 1985; a PhD degree in electrical engineering from
Stanford University in 1990; and an MD degree from Stanford University
in 1992. His industry experience includes the design of a wide variety of
analog and mixed-signal circuits for industrial and commercial applica-
tions, patent law consulting, and the co-founding of three electronics
companies. In 1991, he joined Stanford University as Assistant Professor
of Electronic Engineering, where he teaches analog circuit design and
micromachined transducer technologies. He holds the Robert N. Noyce
Family Faculty Scholar Chair, received an NSF Young Investigator
Award in 1993, and was appointed a Terman Fellow in 1994. His present
research areas include neural/electronic interfaces, solid-state sensors and
actuators, micromachining, analog circuits, integrated circuit fabrica-
tions, medical instruments, and biotechnology.

CARL NELSON is Linear Technology's Bipolar Design Manager. He has
25 years in the semiconductor 1C industry. Carl joined Linear Technology
shortly after the company was founded. He came from National Semicon-
ductor and before that worked for Teledyne Semiconductor. He has a
BSEE from the Northrup Institute of Technology. He is the designer of
the first temperature-sensor 1C and is the father of the LT1070/1270 fam-
ily of easy-to-use switching regulators. He holds more than 30 patents on
a wide range of analog integrated circuits.

ROBERT REAY became an analog designer after discovering as a teenager
that the manual for his Radio Shack electronics kit didn't describe how
any of the circuits really worked. His scientific curiosity and realization
that he wasn't going to make any money as a pianist led him to Stanford
University, where he earned his BSEE and MSEE in 1984. He worked
for Intersil, designing data conversion products, for four years before
Maxim hired away most of the design team. He is currently managing a
group of designers at Linear Technology Corporation, doing interface

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