[...]... Because of the tedium of modeling, few companies have accurate ongoing process data 3 A couple of layouts would then be appropriate Most of our designers at Elantec have done the mask design for some of their circuits, but this is rare in the industry The usual approach is to give inadequate design packages to professional mask designers and waste much of their time badgering them through the layout The designer... 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. .. development Here the designer (we'll call the young engineer a designer only when the first product is delivered to production) takes the project details from the marketing department and reforms them to a more producible definition of silicon At the end of the initial product planning, the designer can report to the company what the expected specifications, functionality, and die size are There are always... person at the bench with the broken instrument The partner, somewhere else, has the schematic and a telephone The two work together to make the fix A surprise is that the time-to-fix seems to be less than if both parties are physically together This may be due to dilution of ego factors Both partners simply must speak and listen with exquisite care to get the thing fixed The Importance of Fixing The reason... with the designer: the manufacturing workers and engineers really make the machines, long-term There's lots of engineering support, and all for making the machines and encouraging our beloved customers to buy them Some people don't understand or savor this definition, but it's been the role of engineers since the beginning of the industrial revolution I personally like it I like the structure of business,... ME, and Dr Eng degrees in electronics 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 integrated circuits and their application systems His interests in the physical aspects of analog. .. Semiconductor 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 family 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... and the AM radio was gushing out Johnny Cash, Beach Boys, Beatles, and the House of the Rising Sun, as well as cowboy music It was pretty psychedelic stuff for the time, and with a temperature of 100°F at night, the low humidity and the rarefied air, I spent a lot of late nights awake with the radio As I lay listening to the music I noticed that the tubes of the radio projected more blue light on the. .. designer often does an inadequate check of the finished layout, occasionally insisting on changes in areas that should have been edited earlier When the project runs late, the engineer can blame the mask designer You see it all the time I would have the young engineer take the job of mask designer for one easy layout in the second three months of half-time He would lay out another designer's circuit and. .. worthwhile to look at how the designer(s) dealt with problems, utilizing available technology, and within the constraints of cost, size, power, and other realities Whether the instrument is three months or thirty years old has no bearing on the quality of the thinking that went into it Good design is independent of technology and basically timeless The clever, elegant, and often interdisciplinary approaches . 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 . alt="" The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design The EDN Series for Design Engineers J. Williams J. Lenk V. Lakshminarayanan J. Lenk M. Brown B. Travis and I. Hickman J. Dostal T. . Applications Handbook EMC for Product Designers Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science, and Personalities Troubleshooting Analog Circuits Electronic Circuits, Systems and Standards Electronic Circuits