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Museum Curator’s Note: Hans
Camenzind is founder and current president of Array Design Inc, a Bay Area
company that is active in the design of analog integrated circuits. A recent Array Design project, described
by Hans, has been the design of an integrated circuit for another company
making laptop “touchpad” devices; according to Hans, his company can
produce ICs of this complexity (200 transistors, or so) in about six weeks,
from start of contract to first production. This is an impressive result, and is reflective of the
tremendous progress in this technology (and also in Hans’s high level of
experience), since the early 1970s, when the 555 project required an entire
year.
Hans has recently developed a
new comprehensive text, which provides an excellent discussion of IC
design, as is currently practiced, but also including historical background
which has been experienced firsthand by Hans over an active 40 year design
career. He describes the book as
follows:
Designing Analog Chips
“A comprehensive introduction to CMOS and
bipolar analog IC design. The book presumes no prior knowledge of linear
design, making it comprehensible to engineers with a non-analog background.
The emphasis is on practical design, covering the entire field with
hundreds of examples to explain the choices. Concepts are presented
following the history of their discovery.”
I highly recommend this new
publication, which is downloadable from Hans’s website:
http://www.arraydesign.com/
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