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