The Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Leif

The Fourth Dee: Turning Over a New Leif

In the second installment of his fantasy, Barrie Gilbert introduces an example showing the power of circuit simulation. In a short time, Niku was able to gain valuable insights regarding the behavior of an ideal oscillator and to debunk the commonly held belief that it would start up given a spike on a supply or bias line.

In this story, Dr. Leif has provided some clues regarding the fourth “Dee” of Analog. We invite our readers to guess what Barrie has in mind, and to provide anecdotes from your experiences with simulators or with analog design in general.