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Acknowledgements
The author would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their help and
advice in supplying information for this book:
Robert Dobkin:
Co-founder and CTO—
Linear Technology Corporation
Inventor of the buried-zener voltage reference
Inventor of the monolithic temperature sensor
Co-inventor of the first commercial bandgap voltage reference
Creator of the first high-speed monolithic op amp
Creator of the first adjustable linear voltage regulator
Professor Thomas H. Lee:
Stanford Microwave ICs Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Robert A. Pease—Staff Scientist, and renowned columnist and guru