Val Garuts
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Valdis Egils Garuts (b. 1939 in Cesis, Latvia – ?) worked at Tektronix from 1964 to 1992. He was named Chief Engineer (later Fellow) in 1981, one of 10 staff holding this title at the time.
He won the Howard Vollum Award in 1990 jointly with Graeme Boyle (→ TekWeek article).
Garuts contributed to the following instruments:
Documents
- TekWeek March 7, 1986 interview with Chief Engineer Val Garuts
- Summary of Projects at Tek
- Measuring Conventional Oscilloscope Noise
- Valdis E. Garuts patents
Documents Authored by Val Garuts
| Document | Page | Class | Title | Author(s) | Year | Refers to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AX-4440.pdf | Application Note | 7854 On-board Digital Processing Refines Scope Measurements | Val Garuts • Jim Tallman | 1980 | 7854 | |
| Technology report june 1980.pdf | 10 | Article | Engineer V Profile: Val Garuts | Val Garuts | 1980 | |
| Tekscope 1969 V1 N2 Apr 1969.pdf | 8 | Article | Measuring Convential Oscilloscope Noise | Val Garuts • Charles Samuel | 1969 | |
| Tekscope 1971 V3 N4 Jul 1971.pdf | 3 | Article | A Subnanosecond Realtime Oscilloscope | Val Garuts • Thor Hallen | 1971 | 7904 • 154-0644-00 • 7A19 • Ft doubler • 7B92 • 154-0644-00 |
Products by Val Garuts
Components by Val Garuts
| Model | Class | Description | Designers | Used in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 155-0056-00 | Monolithic integrated circuit | sweep control | Val Garuts | 26G1 • 26G2 • 26G3 • 314 • 4701 • 5B10N • 5B12N • 5S14N • 7L5 • 7L12 • 7L13 • 7L14 • 7L18 • 7S14 • RG501 • Telequipment D63 • Telequipment DM63 |
Patents by Val Garuts
| Page | Title | Inventors | Assignee | Filed | Granted | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patent US 3609407A | Automatic trigger level control circuit | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1969-06-09 | 1971-09-28 | 5030 • 5031 |
| Patent US 3618130A | High efficiency regulated oscillator circuit having a substantially sinusoidal waveform | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1969-07-28 | 1971-11-02 | 5030 • 5031 |
| Patent US 3733514A | Wide band amplifier having two separate high and low frequency paths for driving capacitive load with large amplitude signal | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1971-03-19 | 1973-05-15 | |
| Patent US RE29018E | Continuously variable resistance attenuator using lossy transmission line and having constant signal transit time | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1975-06-09 | 1976-10-26 | |
| Patent US 3984793A | High frequency attenuator | David Arthur Hannaford • Cornelis Teunis Veenendaal • Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1975-11-20 | 1976-10-05 | |
| Patent US 4717837A | Sample and hold network | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1986-07-18 | 1988-01-05 | |
| Patent US 4720685A | FET transconductance amplifier with improved linearity and gain | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1986-09-02 | 1988-01-19 | |
| Patent US 4719447A | Analog-to-digital converter with push-pull input signal configuration | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1987-02-09 | 1988-01-12 | |
| Patent US 4912399A | Multiple lead probe for integrated circuits in wafer form | Hans J. Greub • Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1987-06-09 | 1990-03-27 | |
| Patent US 4835488A | Wideband linearized emitter feedback amplifier | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1988-01-13 | 1989-05-30 | |
| Patent US 4916415A | Balanced, impedance matched, coupling device | Cliff Moulton • Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1989-01-17 | 1990-04-10 | |
| Patent US 4950923A | Analog multiplier based sample and hold network | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1989-07-28 | 1990-08-21 | |
| Patent US 5121090A | Balun providing dual balanced outputs | Val Garuts • Cliff Moulton | Tektronix Inc | 1990-04-09 | 1992-06-09 | |
| Patent US 5049837A | Push-pull transformer coupled RF amplifier with response to DC | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1990-06-25 | 1991-09-17 | |
| Patent US 5221895A | Probe with microstrip transmission lines | Bozidar Janko • Val Garuts • J. Lynn Saunders | Tektronix Inc | 1991-12-23 | 1993-06-22 | |
| Patent US 5189313A | Variable transition time generator | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1992-02-28 | 1993-02-23 |