[sdiy] Mixed Signal Design Book

Miles Stevens milesstevens89 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 00:32:12 CEST 2015


Argh, I can't find a bigger version at the moment (I'll keep looking) but
google Silicon Forest Universe:

https://www.pdx.edu/sites/www.pdx.edu.ims/files/ims_siliconforestuni2.jpg

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:22 PM, MTG <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com>
wrote:

> I don't have this book, but it looks pretty interesting. Maybe it can find
> a home on the shelf beside the other books that discuss synth and audio
> design (and that are very often analog in nature). It's written by the late
> great Keith Barr who founded MXR and later Alesis.
>
> ASIC Design in the Silicon Sandbox: A Complete Guide to Building
> Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
>
> http://www.amazon.com/ASIC-Design-Silicon-Sandbox-Mixed-Signal/dp/0071481613
>
>
> http://www.mixonline.com/news/news-products/memoriam-keith-barr-1949-2010/379042
>
>
> An interesting industry tie-in (to me) is that Marcus Ryle was at Alesis
> too, and he later went on to form Line 6. I stumbled on this while looking
> at some EPROM .bin dumps and noticing references to Fast Forward Designs.
>
> We could really use one of those org charts (like the Prog Rock bands
> have) for guys like this along with the usual legends! I'm sure there was a
> lot of engineering migration between companies in Silicon Valley as well as
> other hot spots on the planet.
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/534b7b5247258949269fd0aff1c1710f.png
>
> https://gwmusic.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/elpfamilytree.jpg
>
>
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