title: Paul Brokaw
text: # Paul Brokaw
  
  Paul Brokaw is an expert on integrated circuit design who has spent most of his career at Analog Devices, where he holds the position of Analog Fellow. He is the inventor of many analog IC circuits, including the Brokaw bandgap reference and holds over 100 patents. He is also an IEEE Fellow.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Brokaw, Paul. An IC Amplifier User's Guide to Decoupling, Grounding, and Making Things Go Right for a Change (PDF) (Report). Application Note (Revision B ed.). Analog Devices. AN-202.
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  * 2021 - IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits
  