Acknowledgments

Nihal Kularatna, 39A Sumudu Place, Sri Rahula Road, Katubedda, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 21 October 1999.

Let me commence with an acknowledgement of the co-inventors of the integrated circuit, Jack S. Kilby and Robert Noyce. Their initiative, followed by subsequent efforts at semiconductor fabrication facilities and R&D groups in the global semiconductor industry and academia have given the world a plethora of semiconductor-based consumer products and industrial systems. The world of digital components, such as processors, memories and peripheral ICs opening wider vistas for signal processing, cannot be overlooked, nor should there be less emphasis on analog signal conditioning and processing, data conversion, signal isolation, glue ...

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