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Bob Pease obtained a BSEE from MIT in 1961 and is staff scientist at National Semiconductor Corp., Santa Clara, Calif.

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What’s All This Perfection Stuff, Anyhow?

By Bob Pease, February 07, 2012

Whether you're writing a book or designing an amplifier, perfection may be a worthy but unattainable goal. Sooner or later, you have to settle for good enough.
What’s All This Spicey Stuff, Anyhow? (Part II)

By Bob Pease, January 13, 2012

Bob Pease recalls some of his struggles with Spice, answers some reader questions, proves a point to his marketing exec, and discusses the role of modeling.
What’s All This Spicey Stuff, Anyhow? (Part I)

By Bob Pease, January 13, 2012

Bob Pease is not a fan of using Spice to design. He prefers to get his hands dirty with some analog computations and breadboards.
What’s All This Last Column Stuff, Anyhow?

By Bob Pease, November 29, 2011

The Late Bob Pease' Final Column for Electronic Design
What’s All This Profit Stuff, Anyhow?

By Bob Pease, November 28, 2011

Back in 1960, Bob Pease observed a top secret project, the first solid-state operational amplifier, at George A. Philbrick Researches.
What’s All This Noise Stuff, Anyhow? (Part II)

By Bob Pease, November 14, 2011

Bob Pease continues his investigation of a high-performance, low-noise transistor project by building his own text fixture to measure its transistor base-current noise.
What’s All This Noise Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 1)

By Bob Pease, November 11, 2011

Bob Pease investigates a high-performance, low-noise transistor project whose transistors boast noise that's two to four orders of magnitude quiter than conventional transistors.
What’s All This Analog Stuff, Anyhow?

By Bob Pease, November 04, 2011

Originally published September 13, 1990, this is the first of a series of columns about analog and "linear" circuits by Bob Pease. In this inaugural edition, Bob tackles "analog synthesis" and the "hueristic approach," as explained by a young colleague.
Bob’s Mailbox: Audio Quality, A Crazy Rack, And The PE Exam

By Bob Pease, October 21, 2011

Bob responds to reader missives about a custom headphone amplifier, a brilliant but impractical rack involving multiple nested phase-locked loops, and why he never took the PE exam.
What’s All This Solo Hiking Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 3)

By Bob Pease, October 03, 2011

While analog guru Bob Pease passed away on June 18, he left behind several additional columns, including this item recalling more of his hiking adventures. In this installment, Bob tackles the cross-country Wainwright Track in England and remembers a teenage winter camping trip to Mt. Adams in New Hampshire.
Bob’s Mailbox: CCFL Lights, Old Radios, And The 108A

By Bob Pease, September 16, 2011

Bob Pease, posthumous, mailbox column, CCFLs, tube radios, vibrator voltage boosters, 108A op amp
What’s All This Multiplier-Divider Stuff, Anyhow?

By Bob Pease, September 08, 2011

A new, unpublished Bob Pease Column from the backlog he left when he died. Here he designs a multiplier/divider for a low supply voltage and corresponds with a reader about steering-wheel lockup.
Bob’s Mailbox: More Mail About Unintended Acceleration

By Bob Pease, August 10, 2011

Bob had several columns in the works when he died. This one contains some dialog with readers about their personal experiences with stuck throttles.
What’s All This Solo Hiking Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 2)

By Bob Pease, July 12, 2011

This is the second part of a column about hiking safety and hiking alone. It was in the edit queue when Bob died.
What’s All This Solo Hiking Stuff, Anyhow?

By Bob Pease, June 16, 2011

Bob Pease waxes philosophical about hiking alone and relates some of his experiences.
What’s All This 4-To-20 mA Stuff, Anyhow?

By Bob Pease, June 09, 2011

About 30 years ago, somebody told Bob that he had a 4-to-20 mA current source and wished he could tell if the current was out of range or the wire was broken. That got the gears turning in Bob’s brain, and he started to figure out how he could tell if a 4.0-mA current shifts down to 3.70 mA or less. So what was the solution? Check out Bob’s column and find out.
What’s All This Pre-Diabetes Stuff, Anyhow? (Self-Doctoring, Part 6)

By Bob Pease, May 16, 2011

Bob Pease reflects on what he would like to have known about diabetes 16 years ago.
Bob’s Mailbox: Hydraulic Rams, Old Car Radios, And 5-MHz Power

By Bob Pease, May 05, 2011

Bob Pease’s correspondence picks up where his previous hydraulic-ram-equals-switching-power-supply column left off, with numerous analogies that range from coffee cups to steel castings and from shoveling snow to repairing the vibrators in old Motorola car radios -- all with a common theme.
What’s All This Floobydust Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 15)

By Bob Pease, April 19, 2011

Bob Pease levels a shotgun blast of short items from the workbench (component mounting, soldering), to public perceptions of radiation dangers, to dishwashing detergents, to driving safety, to disappearing blue pills.
Bob’s Mailbox: PLL Circuits, Hiking Experiences, And More Reader Reactions

By Bob Pease, April 04, 2011

Robert Pease corresponds with readers about ham radio below 160 m, PLLs, hiking, analog engineering as a career, and run-away vehicles.

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