A Baker’s Dozen Real analog solutions

I went to an analog university where the core courses were, of course, all analog. Then I started my career at a high-quality, premier, analog house; Burr-Brown. Mind you, my objective was not to work at an analog house, my objective was to have a job. Nonetheless, there I rubbed shoulders with the best analog engineers in industry. After thirteen years, I decided to expand my horizons and work for a digital company. For me, thirteen was a lucky number
because this is when my real education began. What did I learn? I learned that you design your circuit so that it works in the application, not so that you have the most elegant solution in industry. I also learned that you can use digital circuits as well as analog circuits to get the job done. Moreover, I learned that sometimes ignorance is bliss. Many of the digital engineers that I have worked with don’t know that some tasks are impossible. For instance, at Burr-Brown we trimmed our precision analog circuits with the high technology of Nicrome. This trim process is very specific to analog silicon circuits and is accurate. I told the engineers that they could not have precision products without a Nicrome process. Boy was I wrong. Microchip trims in analog circuit precision with their digital Flash process.

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