Murlan Kaufman

Murlan Kaufman was born in Portland OR on July 14, 1937. He earned a BSEE in 1959 and MSEE in 1968 at Oregon State University.

Career

Four summers working for Tek while attending Oregon State University. June 1959 to January 1961 at General Electric in New York and Wisconsin. January 1961 Design Engineer at Tek until retirement in August 1999

Tek Products

• Designed P6032, CT-1, CT-2 and 114 pulse generator.
• Inherited and completed design for R293 pulse generator and 184 time mark generator.
• Designed S-51 18 GHz Countdown and 3T5 auto triggering circuit.
• 7B50, 7B51, 7B70 and 7B71 Inherited and completed design.
• 485 Project Leader of the horizontal section.
• 7844 Inherited and completed as project manager.
• 7D01 DF1 and DF2, Project manager.
• DAS9129 Project manager for development of the color display logic analyzer.
• 11400 Series (11401, 11402, 11403), Assistant project manager and responsible for the touch panel and display.
• 11802 Project manager for sampling mainframe and SD51 21 GHz trigger head.
• 11A81, 11A34V and 11T5H, Managed development.
• THS700 series, high voltage isolated front end design.
• Bipolar and BiCMOS IC design for TDS200, TDS300, TDS700 and TDS3000 series oscilloscopes.

Patents

• Jitter Free Triggering Circuit 3,530,315, filed March 1968
• Color Shadow Mask CRT 4,488,093 with Doug Haines and Keith Taylor, filed Oct 1982
• Hold off By TV Fields 6,275,257 with Jim Tallman, filed Oct 1998

Publications

• Current Measurements at Nanosecond Speeds, Engineering Design News, October 1965
• How Fast Does Your CRT Write? Electronic Design, July 1975
• Pick a Logic Analyzer That is Right for Your Job, Instrument and Control Systems, February 1977
• Expression of the Properties of Logic Analyzers, International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC Standard, Publication 776, 1983

Other

• Coordinated HW program development for 8002 with Millennium Information Systems in CA for 6 months in 1977.
• Secretariat on International Electrotechnical Commission WG4 to develop a Logic analyzer standard with inputs from HP, Biomation, Marconi, Schlumberger, meetings in Oslo, London and Budapest, 1977-84
• Member of corporate technology team for color shutter and A to D conversion, 1981-82
• Member of Electronic Technical Advisory Committee (EITAC) for the US Dept. of Commerce for export regulations; active in rebuilding controls, meeting 4 times/year in WDC, 1989-96
• With Marketing, introduced products in the US, Europe and Japan.

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