The Amp Hour

An Interview with Art Kay

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Welcome, Art Kay of Texas Instruments!

  • Art started working as a test engineer at then Burr Brown, located in Tucson, AZ.
  • They had a 4 inch wafer fab on site, which is now gone.
  • The two stages of test engineering were:
    • Initial stuff - "Characterization"
    • Ongoing testing - "Test"
    • Art worked in test in the following groups
      • Instrumentation amps
      • Delta Sigma converters
      • Temperature sensors
      • He then moved into factory application engineering, often focusing on electrical overstress issues.
      • These days Art has been recruiting at Universities. Hobby interests continue to look good on resumes.
      • The Analog Engineers Pocket Reference, written with Tim Green
      • There is also an analog engineers calculator which covers similar things but online.
      • There are 1000s of op amps and 100s of data converters
      • Art's main passion these days is working on Precision Labs. There is one for op amps and will soon be one for data converters.
      • We're glad to see technical content instead of Zombie videos coming from TI!
      • The Precision Labs has a section that uses the National Instruments VirtualBench, discussed previously.
      • Art is now an application manager for the SAR converter group.
      • These are now getting up to 20 bits and significant speeds. The power consumption (like the nanoSAR) continues shrinking as well.
      • SAR converters
      • Delta Sigma Converters
      • Art also has a book available on Amazon! Operational Amplifier Noise Techniques. This was derived from the content formerly on the En Genius site.
      • You can find Art on LinkedIn or on E2E (requires login)
      • If you're interested in working with him, check out the TI careers page
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