Not a name to trip off the forefront of the memory, but any electronics geek will know his greatest design, the LM555 timer chip. Not just a timer, but the basis of oscillators used in early synthesisers, the Atari, and many early motherboards as the watchdog timer used to hold the CPU reset line low until the power lines have stabilised.
While it may have been replaced in those applications by more sophisticated devices, the LM555 is still available and used for timing and oscillator ccts.
RIP Hans Camenzind.


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