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Contents

Preface ix
Contributors xi

Part One Learning How

1. The Importance of Fixing 3
Jim Williams
2. How to Grow Strong, Healthy Engineers 9
Barry Harvey
3. We Used to Get Burned a Lot, and We Liked It 17
Barry Harvey

4. Analog Design Productivity and the Challenge
of Creating Future Generations of Analog Engineers 31
Keitaro Sekine
5. Thoughts on Becoming and Being an Analog
Circuit Designer 41
Gregory T. A. Kovacs
6. Cargo Cult Science 55
Richard P. Feynman

Part Two Making It Work

7. Signal Conditioning in Oscilloscopes and the
Spirit of Invention 65
Steve Roach
8. One Trip Down the 1C Development Road 85
William H. Gross
9. Analog Breadboarding 103
James M. Bryant
10. Who Wakes the Bugler? 121
Carl Battjes
11. Tripping the Light Fantastic 139
Jim Williams

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