Posted on 06/21/2011 10:39:48 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A prominent Silicon Valley analog chip designer and author was identified Monday as the man who died after crashing into a tree in Saratoga on Saturday.
San Francisco resident Bob Pease, 70, wrote several books on analog design and other topics and had a regular column in the Electronic Design magazine, which shared the news about his death with readers on Monday. But he is probably best known for his 33 years spent at National Semiconductor in Santa Clara
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What is it with these killer trees???
Worked with Bob while I was at National. RIP
Damned Triffids.
70 years old, driving too fast, only person you hurt is yourself... hmmmm... not such a bad way to go.
Jim Williams another engineering legend recently passed .
Jim Williams another engineering legend recently passed .
His was the only column I read in ED. I liked his style.
I remember him too I think. I stopped reading electronics magazines and books when I started doing embedded firmware rather than electronic design. I believe I had a book by Jim Williams.
The trick is finding the real estate!!!
One road two miles from me is paved literally tree trunk to tree trunk and barely passable for two cars.
I read somewhere that a high percentage of such accidents were suicides. There was a kid in my H.S. whose father was a member of the NYC Council. His father died, much younger than 70, in a similar accident. I always suspected it was one step ahead of a grand jury true bill of indictment.
I remember driving south on the Belt Parkway one Sunday, just south of Belmont Park, a huge traffic back up. Some guy in a GTO had center punched a bridge abutment. You could see him sitting dead, face covered in blood, bolt upright in the drivers seat. I always suspected he left the mortgage money at the track.
Little-known fact: Trees have lobbyists.
I loved NS analog ICs when I was a circuit designer. Any idea of any of his designs? LM-741 or LM-555, for instance or LM-324 quad op-amp?
I used those, myself. They were major improvements over the discreets!
I never knew this Bob. I left National in 1973 (for the 2nd time.) Before he got there in 1976. I used to drink with this Bob while I was at National.
Regardless, God bless both Bob's.
Bob Pease and Jim Williams were the best reasons to get both
ED and EDN.
I read that Bob Pease died after leaving a memorial
service for Jim Williams, who died last week.
The analog world is changed.
Bob Pease and Jim Williams were the best reasons to get both
ED and EDN.
I read that Bob Pease died after leaving a memorial
service for Jim Williams, who died last week.
The analog world is changed.
That is just knot right.
Oh, no! PUNS!!!! I am now leafing this thread.
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