Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!drn From: Winfield Hill Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Date: 18 May 2017 19:39:50 -0700 Organization: Rowland Institute Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <0u4mhc14ghufu3d4kif638btbn2vuvvt75@4ax.com> <71146fd1-cc52-4847-874f-ee6b46c7ce7b@googlegroups.com> <7d39cbba-d00d-4fa7-905b-baef42953bc2@googlegroups.com> <215shcdhufqgp5r93kkq5agkno63egfv8h@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pa77a13a5e3659c0fbb31b7647f8915ae4ab42fa5908bbe04.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Direct Read News 5.60 X-Received-Bytes: 2310 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1364805313 Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:460895 Jim Thompson wrote... > >On 18 May 2017 18:37:15 -0700, Winfield Hill > wrote: > >>Jim Thompson wrote... >>> >>>Winfield Hill wrote: >>>> Jim Thompson wrote... >>>>> Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote: >>>>>> Winfield Hill wrote: >>>>>>> bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But Jim can't name an integrated circuit he designed. ... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I know he was a specialist in high-power IC design, >>>>>>> see his 1968 paper in JSSC, "A Monolithic High-Power >>>>>>> Series Voltage Regulator", and with James Solomon, >>>>>>> "A High-Performance 3-Watt Monolithic Class-B Power >>>>>>> Amplifier"; both were probably Motorola parts. And >>>>>>> I have his paper on a Monolithic-Sonar-System. There >>>>>>> are likely many more papers if one were to look. He >>>>>>> also had patents, which I have stored in my computer. >>> >>> I'll browse the patents and can probably identify those >>> products that are Motorola's. >> >> I'm curious about the two Motorola papers I quoted. > > I'm not sure they are Motorola papers. By 1968, they both may > have left Motorola... there was some turmoil in those days ;-) Both papers list Motorola affiliation, that is they were Motorola paid-for projects. Check them out on DropBox. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t27kt0zjnxo8a3p/AABRbcodOSEzxyBUaikzic1ia?dl=0 -- Thanks, - Win