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circuits, battery chargers, DACs, references, comparators, regulators,
temperature sensors, and anything else that looks interesting. He regu-
larly plays roller blade hockey with the kids in the neighborhood and is
helping his children discover the beauty of a Chopin waltz and a well-
designed circuit.

STEVE ROACH received his BS in engineering physics from the Univer-
sity of Colorado in 1984 and his MS in electrical engineering from Ohio
State University in 1988. He worked from 1984 to 1986 as a software
engineer for Burroughs Corporation and from 1988 to 1992 at Hewlett-
Packard Company, designing digital oscilloscopes. From 1992 to 1994,
Stephen designed industrial sensors at Kaman Instrumentation Company.
He is currently designing digital oscilloscopes for Hewlett-Packard. His
hobbies include backpacking, hunting, off-road motorcycling, and tutor-
ing kids at the Boys' and Girls' Club.

KEITARO SEKINE received his BE, ME, and Dr. Eng. degrees in electron-
ics from Waseda University in 1960,1962, and 1968, respectively. Since
1969, he has been with the Faculty of Science and Technology, Science
University of Tokyo, where he is now a professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering. His main research interests are in analog inte-
grated circuits and their application systems. His interests in the physical
aspects of analog circuits, such as implementation, mutual electro-mag-
netic couple within the circuits, and EMC, originated from the experi-
ments at his own amateur radio station, which he has had since 1957. He
has been chair of the Committee for Investigative Research and Commit-
tee on Analog Circuit Design Technologies at the Institute of Electrical
Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) and also a member of the Editorial Committee
for the Transactions of IEICE Section J-C. He is now president of the
Society for Electronics, Information, and System at the IEEJ, as well as a
member of the Board of Directors at the Japan Institute of Printed Circuit
(JIPC). Dr. Sekine is a member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, the IEEJ, and the JIPC.

ERIC SWANSON received his BSEE from Michigan State University in
1977 and his MSEE from Cal Tech in 1980. From 1980 to 1985 he
worked on a variety of analog LSI circuits at AT&T-Bell Laboratories in
Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1985 he joined Crystal Semiconductor in
Austin, Texas, where he is currently Vice President of Technology. His
development experience includes millions of CMOS transistors, a few
dozen bipolar transistors, and nary a vacuum tube. Eric holds 20 patents,
evenly divided between the analog and digital domains, and continues to
design high-performance data converters. He enjoys swimming and bik-
ing with his wife Carol and four children.

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