James M. Williams (April 14, 1948 – June 12, 2011) was an
analog circuit
Analogue electronics ( en-US, analog electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels. The term "analogue" describes the proportional relati ...
designer and technical author who worked for the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(1968–1979),
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,
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The company produced power management integrated circuits, display drive ...
(1979–1982) and
Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company that designed, manufactured and marketed high performance analog integrated circuits. Applications for the company's products included telecommunications, cellular telephones, ne ...
Corporation (LTC) (1982–2011). He wrote over 350 publications
relating to analog circuit design, including five books, 21
application note
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s for
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The company produced power management integrated circuits, display drive ...
, 62 application notes for
Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company that designed, manufactured and marketed high performance analog integrated circuits. Applications for the company's products included telecommunications, cellular telephones, ne ...
, and over 125 articles for
EDN Magazine.
Williams suffered a
stroke
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on June 10 and died on June 12, 2011.
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See also
*Paul Brokaw Paul Brokaw is an expert on integrated circuit design who has spent most of his career at Analog Devices, where he holds the position of Analog Fellow. He is the inventor of many analog IC circuits, including the Brokaw bandgap reference Brokaw band ...
*Barrie Gilbert
Barrie Gilbert (5 June 1937 – 30 January 2020) was an English-American electrical engineer. He was well known for his invention of numerous analog circuit concepts, holding over 100 patents worldwide, and for the discovery of the Translinear Pri ...
*Howard Johnson (electrical engineer) Howard Johnson is an electrical engineer, known for his consulting work and commonly referenced books on the topic of signal integrity, especially for high speed electronic circuit design. He served as the chief technical editor for Fast Ethernet ...
*Bob Pease
Robert Allen Pease (August 22, 1940 – June 18, 2011) was an electronics engineer known for analog integrated circuit (IC) design, and as the author of technical books and articles about electronic design. He designed several very successf ...
— analog electronics engineer, technical author, and colleague. Pease died in an automobile accident after leaving Williams' memorial.Bob Widlar
Robert John Widlar (pronounced ''wide-lar''; November 30, 1937 – February 27, 1991) was an American electronics engineer and a designer of linear integrated circuits (ICs).
Early years
Widlar was born November 30, 1937 in Cleveland to pare ...
— pioneering analog integrated circuit designer, technical author, early consultant to Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company that designed, manufactured and marketed high performance analog integrated circuits. Applications for the company's products included telecommunications, cellular telephones, ne ...
Corporation
*Building 20
Building 20 (18 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a temporary timber structure hastily erected during World War II on the central campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since it was always regarded as "temporary", it neve ...
— legendary MIT building where Jim Williams had a design lab early in his career
References
External links
Archive of EDN articles.
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20120319221312/http://www.centredaily.com/2011/06/15/2779140/linear-technology-staff-scientist.html
Linear Technology - Staff Scientist Jim Williams Remembered
*Walker, Rob (2006).
with Bob Dobkin
Robert C. Dobkin (born 1943 in Philadelphia) is an American electrical engineer, co-founder of Linear Technology Corporation, and veteran linear (analog) integrated circuit (IC) designer.
Career
Dobkin studied Electrical Engineering at MIT, ...
and Jim Williams'' (part of
Stanford and the Silicon Valley Project
'). Recorded April 19, 2006.
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American electrical engineers
Analog electronics engineers
Integrated circuits
1948 births
2011 deaths
American technology writers