ANALOG: BACK TO THE FUTURE PART ONE: A JOURNEY TO THE PAST SHEDS LIGHT ON TODAY'S ANALOG-IC INDUSTRY

摘要

Examining history provides an eye-opening education into our predecessors, successes and failures and may provide lessons on what to avoid and what to emulate in our lives. This fact holds true not only in daily life but also in analog-IC and analog-circuit design. Innovative developers and developments were the foundations that led to 21st-century analog products that we now use in design. This article delves into early precision-op-amp development from National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and Linear Technology. Future installments will focus on Burr-Brown, Analog Devices, Microchip, and Maxim and on pioneers in analog technology.