Author Biographies

Author Biographies
Ray Stata co-founded Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), in 1965. ADI
initially focused on operational amplifiers but later expanded
into other linear IC's including data converters and subsequently
in digital signal processors (DSP), forging the integration of
analog and digital circuits for signal processing applications. Mr.
Stata served as CEO of the company from 1971 to 1996. He has
been Chairman of the Board since 1973 and continues to serve in
this capacity. Mr. Stata is active in the high technology industry
and in public service. Throughout his career Mr. Stata has
committed himself to numerous programs to develop learning
skills in our youth, promote interest in engineering education,
and establish quality as a key cultural value for people and
corporations around the world. As co-founder and the first
President of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, Mr. Stata advocated that engineering education and university research funding were a shared responsibility of government and industry. As a member of Leaders for Education, he joins other business leaders in a continuous effort to reform K-12 education particularly as it related to in urban communities and as it related to nurturing interest in math and science. At the federal level, he served on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness from 1987 to 2005. Mr. Stata's service on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Overseers stemmed from his professional commitment to total quality management. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mr. Stata holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT, and was until 2010 the Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1984 he was elected to MIT's Corporation and served as a member of its Executive Committee until 2010. In 1987-1988 he served as President of the MIT Alumni Association. He has received the following awards: 1990 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 1996 Named Foreign Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2001 Recipient of the Semiconductor Industry Association's Robert M. Noyce Award for Leadership, 2003 Recipient of the IEEE Founder's Medal. He was co-author of Global Stakes, Ballinger Press 1982, and The Innovators, Harper & Rowe, September 1984.
John Ardizzoni is a Technical Product Manager in Analog Devices
High Speed Linear Group. John joined Analog Devices in 2002 and
has over 30 years experience in the electronics industry in design
and applications. John has authored numerous articles and papers
and is a co-author of Analog Devices popular Rarely Asked
Questions (RAQ) series.
Brad Brannon is a System Architect in the Communications Segment
Team at Analog Devices and is based in Greensboro NC. He has over
28 years of experience at Analog Devices in a variety of areas
including design, test, applications and systems. He has authored a
number of articles and applications notes related to both radio
topics and converter applications. Brad graduated from North
Carolina State University.
James Bryant is an electronic engineer specializing in the
applications of analog integrated circuits. After a graduate
apprenticeship at Smiths Industries in Cheltenham, where he
designed circuits that flew in Concorde, he joined Plessey
Semiconductors and was, successively, a salesman, an integrated
circuit designer (designing the World's first monolithic Digital-Analog
Converter [DAC]) and, for over eight years, Applications Manager.
For six years from 1976 he was also the President of the Citizens'
Band Association, a pressure group dedicated to the legalization of
CB Radio in the UK (which took place in 1981) and for much of that
time was also Technical Advisor to the UK Parliament's ad hoc
Committee on CB Radio. On the legalization of CB Radio in Britain he
joined Voxson Audio as Special Projects Manager, supervising their move into the CB Radio market, but when the project was complete returned to Integrated Circuit Applications and was Head of European Applications for Analog Devices for over a quarter of a century until he retired. He contributes to a regular column sponsored by Analog Devices on technical problems in analog electronics called "Rarely Asked Questions" which is published monthly in English and Chinese and have written many papers, articles and application notes, and a number of books, on the same subject.
Walt Jung worked for Analog Devices for 11 years as a corporate
staff applications engineer, before retiring in 2002. Before his ADI
employment, he worked for several years at Linear Technology
Corporation, and also consulted for both ADI and Precision
Monolithics Incorporated, before their merger. Walt has written
hundreds of articles for many publications, beginning in the late
1960’s. Many of these articles were for Electronic Design, including
a column “Walt’s Tools and Tips“. Electronic Design named him to
their Hall of Fame, in 2002. He has written many books on the
application of integrated circuits, with the best-known among them
IC Op Amp Cookbook, in print since 1974. He has also authored
numerous works on audio-related topics. In 1979 the Audio
Engineering Society named him as an AES Fellow for his work on IC
op amp distortion.Walt’s most recent book was the ADI publication, Op Amp Applications Handbook, for which he served as editor as well as author, along with many other ADI engineers.
Walt Kester was a Member of Technical staff at Bell Telephone Labs
from 1964 until 1969 where he worked on high speed data
converters for radar receivers. In 1969 he joined Computer Labs, Inc.,
which was later acquired by Analog Devices in 1978. For over 45
years he has designed, developed, and given applications support for
high-speed data acquisition components including ADCs, DACs, SHAs,
op amps, and analog multiplexers. Besides writing many papers and
articles, he prepared and edited eleven major applications books
which form the basis for the Analog Devices world-wide technical
seminar series including the topics of op amps, data conversion,
power management, sensor signal conditioning, mixed-signal, and
practical analog design techniques. Currently he is chief technical
editor for the Circuits from the Lab program. Walt has a BSEE from NC State University and an MSEE from Duke University.
David Kress designed medical electronic equipment before joining
Analog Devices in 1972 as an IC designer. Over the years, he has
been involved in analog chip design, wafer fabrication engineering,
new product development and management. David has been
instrumental in bringing to market many new products and
platforms focused on innovation and enabling new application areas.
For many years David led ADI's technical support team, and he is
currently the Director of Technical Marketing. David earned both his
BSEE and MSEE for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rob Reeder is a senior system application engineer with Analog
Devices Inc. in the Industrial and Instrumentation Segment focusing
on Military and Aerospace Applications in Greensboro, N.C. He has
published numerous papers on converter interfaces, converter
testing and analog signal chain design for a variety of applications.
Formerly, Rob was an application engineer for the high-speed
converter product line for 8 years. His prior experience also includes
test development and analog design engineer for the Multi-Chip
Products group at ADI designing analog signal chain modules for
space, military, and high-reliability applications for 5 years. Rob
received his MSEE and BSEE from Northern Illinois University in
DeKalb, Ill., in 1998 and 1996 respectively. When Rob isn’t writing
papers late at night or in the lab hacking up circuits, he enjoys
hanging around at the gym, mixing techno music, spending time with the neighbors and most importantly chilling out with his wife and two boys.
Circuit Design Handbook (Newnes-Elsevier 2008).。