I started work at Burr-Brown in March of 1980. We were bought out by Texas Instruments in 2000. I retired in 2017. Burr-Brown was a wonderful company to work for, and I consider that some of my best years of life. I started on hybrid ADCs, later on DACs, including doing some characterization on the famous audio DAC (It was farmed out to me for unknown reasons, as I was not in that group at that time, but later did worked under Jim Naylor in the 1990s till his retirement.) Later I worked in the OP Amp group (technician) and ended doing Reliability Engineering in same group. Under TI, like all big corporations, they succeed despite themselves. The free enterprise, make your business start in the garage is a long gone time. Burr-Brown was humanistic with a sense of.moral duty in its business and employees..
I always thought BB was a really cool company and would have loved to worked for them. Sadly, they are no longer and exist only minimally through TI now. The era of the big American semiconductor company is seemingly now in the twilight years.
