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

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 SD-51 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

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

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