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[email protected] NATHAN O. SOKAL, Staff Engineer and President Professional Experience Mr. Sokal founded DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC. in 1965 and has been President of the company since then. He supervised and contributed to many of the projects and products described in the company brochures. His work involved product design, design review, product evaluation, and problem-fixing for electronic equipment and systems for industrial, military, space, and consumer applications, both analog and digital, from dc to UHF, from microwatts to megawatts. Examples are given below. Analog signal processing and high-precision instrumentation: a digitally-controlled analog radar signal cross-correlator; a speech signal processor comprising six precisely-adjustable low-noise feedback-type active filters; a microelectronic random-digit generator of high randomness and low autocorrelation, based on electrical random noise; high-speed wide- dynamic-range precision nonlinear function generators with high-current outputs, for linearizing the nonlinear control characteristics of PIN-diode RF attenuators; a radar video quantizer and digital signal storage and signal processor for a marine collision-avoidance system Switching-mode power conversion and motor-speed control: design of high-efficiency switching-mode power amplifiers (up to 2.5 GHz), dc-dc converters (switching frequency up to 14 MHz), dc-ac inverters, and motor-speed controllers; development