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Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP

Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Date 2017-05-18 20:57 -0700
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Subject Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP
From bill.sloman@ieee.org

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On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 12:40:04 PM UTC+10, Winfield Hill wrote:
> Jim Thompson wrote...
> >
> >On 18 May 2017 18:37:15 -0700, Winfield Hill
> ><hill@rowland.harvard.edu> 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 

The first paper looks as if it might correspond to the LM4871 - which is not a number I ever ran into, and sounds a good deal later than 1968. The LM380 and 
LM384 seem to fit the bill better - the LM380 is credited with  2.5W on the data sheet, and the LM3284 was a selected part that could survive a higher supply voltage and was rated for 5W.

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm380.pdf

The second part is a voltage regulator, and Bob Widlar managed to corner most of the glory there.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-16 08:01 -0700
  Tom Frederiksen, RIP bulegoge@columbus.rr.com - 2017-05-17 07:22 -0700
  Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-17 08:22 -0700
    Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-17 10:51 -0700
      Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-17 18:28 -0700
  Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-17 14:38 -0700
    Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-17 15:58 -0700
      Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> - 2017-05-17 23:10 -0400
        Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP stratus46 <stratus46@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-17 21:01 -0700
          Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-17 21:21 -0700
            Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-17 22:58 -0700
              Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-18 10:26 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-05-18 14:27 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-18 14:38 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-18 17:13 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-18 18:02 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-18 18:37 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-18 19:14 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-18 19:39 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-18 20:57 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-19 08:11 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-19 08:22 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2017-05-19 11:29 -0400
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-19 08:46 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2017-05-19 12:08 -0400
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-19 09:13 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-19 20:05 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-19 09:46 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-19 09:56 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-19 20:17 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-20 10:56 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-21 05:21 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-21 08:48 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-21 22:01 -0700
                Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-20 11:12 -0700
  Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2017-05-18 20:06 -0700
    Re: Tom Frederiksen, RIP cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2017-05-18 20:20 -0700

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