I've recently discovered Jim Williams and Bob Pease. They have taught me a ton about circuit design in their app notes... also Colin Mitchell deserves honorable mention (though his work doesn't seem to be as complete). I actually discovered Bob Pease a few years back reading the last page of EDN (usually the only page worth reading)... I didn't realize that he wrote the national app notes at the time though.
5 years of college, 5 years of professional work, and I feel dumb when I read their work. I learn more in a couple hours of app note reading than I learned in 10 years of traditional education. How does this happen? Then I find out that Jim had NO formal education!
I hear that all three of these guys are pretty personable... but Jim and Bob died within a week of each other. (Bob had actually been returning from a memorial for Jim when he died in a car accident). I would have loved to meet them. I will probably never get to meet Colin since he's on the other side of the pond.
Did any of you guys meet these fellows?
Analogue Rules!
I put this in the off-topic forum - just seems that I'm rambling a bit.
5 years of college, 5 years of professional work, and I feel dumb when I read their work. I learn more in a couple hours of app note reading than I learned in 10 years of traditional education. How does this happen? Then I find out that Jim had NO formal education!
I hear that all three of these guys are pretty personable... but Jim and Bob died within a week of each other. (Bob had actually been returning from a memorial for Jim when he died in a car accident). I would have loved to meet them. I will probably never get to meet Colin since he's on the other side of the pond.
Did any of you guys meet these fellows?
Analogue Rules!
I put this in the off-topic forum - just seems that I'm rambling a bit.