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To: Gottfried who wrote (311)	11/4/1997 2:31:00 PM
From: Javelyn Bjoli	Read Replies (1) of 754

Good analog designers are definitely hard to find, and Linear Tech has a disproportionate share of the good people. It takes something like 10+ years to get really good at, compared to maybe 3-5 years for digital hardware and 2-3 years for software. Part of the problem in most engineering schools, analog design is like an esoteric elective track, while all the budget, resource, and expectation is that everyone will graduate into the computer industry. So there are not so many new grads coming into the analog field. Those who do are mostly attracted to wireless at a grad school level and are consumed by the cell phone industry. A couple of other mainstream analog fields are power supplies and medical instrumentation. If you walk through Linear Tech, you will find that most of their employees are older, like 45+ years old, compared to a lot of the digital & software startups where everyone is 25. It is not just that analog takes longer to get good at, most of these guys are from the tube days, where everything was discrete analog parts and design was more art than science. Teenagers don't play with FM radio kits anymore, they write software for PC's.

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