Chapter 37

Circuitry for signal conditioning and power conversion

Designs from a once lazy sabbatical

Jim Williams

Introduction

Linear Technology has a sabbatical program. Every five years employees are granted sabbatical leave, which may last up to six weeks. You have 18 months from each five year employment anniversary to take the leave. Sabbatical is fully company paid and has no restrictions. The time is yours to do with as you please.

People exercise all degrees of freedom with their sabbaticals. They go sailing, they go to South Sea islands, they ski some mountain nobody ever heard of, they trek in Nepal. Houses get fixed, cars restored and children played with.

For my third sabbatical I resolved to do absolutely nothing. For the first time ...

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