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4 unusual facts about Henry Katzenstein


Brooktree

Brooktree is an American company founded in 1983 by Henry Katzenstein to commercialize a faster hardware architecture for digital to analog converters, three to eight times faster than the converters on the market.

Henry Katzenstein

The company's first product to reach the market was an 8-bit CMOS D/A converter intended for video applications.

Introduced in early 1985, the first "VideoDAC" had an output clock rate of up to 75 MHz and 1/4 LSB accuracy—3-8 times better than typical contemporary devices.

He founded a company called Brooktree in 1983 to commercialize a new architecture for digital to analog converters that he developed.



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