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#348 – An Interview with Art Kay
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