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In 1971, Battjes left the portable oscilloscope group and joined the IC design group within Tektronix. | In 1971, Battjes left the portable oscilloscope group and joined the IC design group within Tektronix. | ||
He founded and taught the Tek Amplifier Frequency and Transient Response (AFTR) course<ref>[https://picture.iczhiku.com/resource/eetop/sHIglUHSZETZeBBN.pdf D.Feucht, ''Designing High-Performance Amplifiers'' | He founded and taught the Tek Amplifier Frequency and Transient Response (AFTR) course<ref>[https://picture.iczhiku.com/resource/eetop/sHIglUHSZETZeBBN.pdf D.Feucht, ''Designing High-Performance Amplifiers'']</ref>. | ||
He took early retirement in 1983, then did consulting for the next 10 years as a registered professional engineer. | He took early retirement in 1983, then did consulting for the next 10 years as a registered professional engineer. | ||
From ''Who Wakes the Bugler?'' (s.b.): | |||
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While on a camping trip in Oregon in 1961, I stopped at TeMronix and received an interview and a job offer the same day. Tektronix wanted me. | |||
They were at a stage where they needed to exploit transistors to build fast, high-performance 'scopes. | |||
I had designed a 300 MHz transistor amplifier while working at Sylvania. | |||
In 1961, that type of experience was a rare commodity. | |||
Actually, I had designed a wideband 300 MHz IF amplifier that only achieved 200 MHz. | |||
What we (Sylvania) used was a design that my technician came up with that made 300 MHz. | |||
So I arrived at this premier oscilloscope company feeling somewhat of a fraud. | |||
I was more than just a bit intimidated by the Tektronix reputation and the distributed amplifiers and artificial delay lines and all that stuff that really worked. | |||
The voltage dynamic range, the transient response cleanliness, and DC response requirements for a vertical output amplifier made my low-power, 50 Ohm, 300 MHz IF amplifier seem like child's play. | |||
Naturally, I was thrown immediately into the job of designing high-bandwidth oscilloscope transistor vertical-output amplifiers. | |||
I felt like a private, fresh out of basic training, on the front lines in a war. | |||
</blockquote> | |||
==Tek Products== | ==Tek Products== | ||