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Guy Hoover - Applications Engineer
Guy Hoover is an engineer with over 30 years of experience at Linear Technology as a technician, an IC design engineer and an applications engineer.
He began his career at LTC as a technician, learning from Bob Dobkin, Bob Widlar, Carl Nelson and Tom Redfern working on a variety of products including op amps, comparators, switching regulators and ADCs. He also spent considerable time during this period writing test programs for the characterization of these parts.
The next part of his career at LTC was spent learning PSpice and designing SAR ADCs. Products designed by Guy include the LTC1197 family of 10-bit ADCs and the LTC1864 family of 12-bit and 16-bit ADCs.
Guy is currently an applications engineer in the Mixed Signal group specializing in SAR ADC applications support. This includes designing, writing Verilog code and test procedures for SAR ADC demo boards, helping customers optimize their products that contain LTC SAR ADCs, and writing hopefully useful applications articles that pass on to customers what he has learned about using these parts.
Guy graduated from DeVry Institute of Technology (Now DeVry University) with a BS in electronics engineering technology.
Publications
| Type |
Title |
Date ▴ |
| Blog |
Sharing a Reference Can Compromise Precision ADC Performance |
Jan 12th, 2017 |
| Blog |
Combining Distributed Read with Chain Mode Using the LTC2380-24 |
Oct 24th, 2016 |
| Blog |
Distributed Read Examples for the LTC2512-24 |
Oct 12th, 2016 |
| LT Journal |
Low Power, Precision Op Amp Simplifies Driving of MUXed ADCs |
Aug 11th, 2016 |
| Blog |
Consequences of Not Following the Data Sheet Bypass Recommendation |
Aug 8th, 2016 |
| Blog |
Anti-Alias Filter for 24-bit ADC |
Aug 3rd, 2016 |
| Blog |
Low Power, Precision Op Amp Simplifies Driving of MUXed ADCs |
Oct 2nd, 2015 |
| Blog |
Micropower Op Amp Drives 8-Channel 18-Bit Simultaneous Sampling ADC without Compromising Accuracy or Breaking the Power Budget |
Jun 23rd, 2015 |
| Design Note |
DN541 - Micropower Op Amp Drives 8-Channel 18-Bit Simultaneous Sampling ADC without Compromising Accuracy or Breaking the Power Budget |
Jun 23rd, 2015 |
| Blog |
Sometimes You Need a Little Gain Part 2 |
Apr 28th, 2015 |
| Blog |
Sometimes You Need a Little Gain - Part 1 |
Apr 9th, 2015 |
| Blog |
Multiple LTC2315-12 ADCs Share SPI Bus |
Mar 18th, 2015 |
| LT Journal |
DC Accurate Driver for 20-Bit SAR ADC Achieves 2ppm Linearity |
Jul 1st, 2014 |
| Blog |
Driver for 14-Bit, 4.5Msps ADC Operates Over a Wide Gain Range |
Apr 3rd, 2014 |
| Design Note |
DN526 - Driver for 14-Bit, 4.5Msps ADC Operates Over a Wide Gain Range |
Mar 25th, 2014 |
| Blog |
A Low Jitter Clock is Required to Evaluate High Resolution ADCs |
Mar 3rd, 2014 |
| Blog |
DC Accurate Driver for the LTC2377-20 Achieves 2ppm Linearity |
Jan 10th, 2014 |
| Blog |
Level Shifting a Low Distortion Sine Wave |
Jan 8th, 2014 |
| Design Note |
DN1032 - DC Accurate Driver for the LTC2377-20 Achieves 2ppm Linearity |
Jan 6th, 2014 |
| Blog |
Generating a ±10.24V True Bipolar Input for an 18-Bit, 1Msps SAR ADC |
Dec 17th, 2013 |
| Design Note |
DN522 - Generating a ±10.24V True Bipolar Input for an 18-Bit, 1Msps SAR ADC |
Nov 26th, 2013 |
| Blog |
Short Ground Leads Make Better Scope Photos |
Nov 6th, 2013 |
| Blog |
ADC Driving: Driving Differential ADCs |
Sep 10th, 2013 |
| Blog |
ADC Driving: Single-Ended To Differential Conversion |
Sep 5th, 2013 |
| Blog |
ADC Driving: Pseudo-Differential Unipolar or Bipolar Inputs |
Aug 28th, 2013 |
| Blog |
ADC Drivers & Filters: Single Ended Buffer |
Aug 28th, 2013 |
| LT Journal |
Low Power, DC Accurate Drivers for 18-Bit ADCs |
Jul 9th, 2013 |
| Blog |
Psuedo-Differential Unipolar Inputs: Driving The LTC2369-18 |
Apr 8th, 2013 |
| Application Note |
AN132 - Fidelity Testing for A to D Converters |
Oct 1st, 2011 |
| Design Note |
DN494 - Driving a Low Noise, Low Distortion 18-Bit, 1.6Msps ADC |
Aug 1st, 2011 |
| Design Note |
DN477 - Driving Lessons for a Low Noise, Low Distortion, 16-Bit, 1Msps SAR ADC |
Feb 11th, 2010 |
| Design Note |
DN463 - Upgrade Your Microcontroller ADC to True 12-Bit Performance |
Mar 6th, 2009 |
| Design Note |
DN426 - 6-Channel SAR ADCs for Industrial Monitoring and Portable |
Sep 14th, 2007 |
| Design Note |
DN294 - 250ksps, 16-Bit Micropower ADC Offers an Excellent Combination of SIze, Power and Speed |
Sep 2nd, 2002 |
| LT Journal |
Mar 2002 250ksps 16-Bit ADC in a Tiny MSOP Package Offers an Excellent Combination of Speed, Power and Size |
Mar 1st, 2002 |
| Design Note |
DN184 - Micropower MSOP 10-Bit ADC Samples at 500ksps |
Jul 2nd, 1998 |
| Design Note |
DN38 - Applications for a New Micropower, Low Charge Injection Analog Switch |
Aug 1st, 1990 |
| Design Note |
DN35 - 12-Bit 8-Channel Data Acquisition System Interfaces to IBM PC Serial Port |
Jun 1st, 1990 |
| Design Note |
DN26 - Auto-Zeroing A/D Offset Voltage |
Sep 1st, 1989 |
| Design Note |
DN5 - Temperature Measurement Using Data Acquisition Systems |
Mar 1st, 1989 |
| Design Note |
DN19 - A Two Wire Isolated and Powered 10-Bit Data Acquisition System |
Jan 1st, 1989 |
| Design Note |
DN13 - Closed Loop Control with Data Acquisition Systems |
Aug 1st, 1988 |
| Design Note |
DN10 - Electrically Isolating Data Acquisition Systems |
May 1st, 1988 |
| Application Note |
AN26 (A-R) - Interfacing the LTC1090/1/2 |
Jan 23rd, 1988 |