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  • ️Mon Jan 17 1983

Winthrop Alfred "Wink" Gross (b. April 29, 1947 in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States – ?) is a retired Tektronix engineer.

Wink started at Tektronix as a summer student from Harvard in 1968 and became a full time Tek employee upon graduation with a BA in EE in 1969. He worked closely with Carl Battjes for a number of years during the 454 design, and designed the 485 portable oscilloscope's main vertical amplifier.

He left Tek to go to MIT for their graduate Engineer degree in 1972 and 1973, returning to Tek to work on the main vertical amplifier of the 7104, 1 GHz oscilloscope. Gross and John Addis collaborated closely on both the 485 and 7104.

Wink went to the Portable Instrument Division in 1979 and became vertical system engineer for the 2465, for which he designed the main vertical amplifier, the channel switch, and the auxiliary input preamp.

Wink went to the IC department in 1982 as Analog IC Design Manager, eventually becoming Engineering Manager for the Microelectronics Group. In 1994, when Tektronix sold its IC facility to Maxim Integrated Products, Wink went to Maxim as Director of High Frequency IC Design. He retired in 1999.

Links

  • John Addis, Good Engineering and Fast Vertical Amplifiers, in Jim Williams (Ed.), Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities (1991), p.114 (Ref 1)
  • Wink Gross' web page

Tek products

  • with John Addis, co-designed the vertical amplifier for the 485 (Ref 1)
  • responsible for the main vertical amplifier in the 7104
  • with John Addis, co-designed the hybrid amplifiers for the 7104 (Ref 1)
  • 2465

Products by Wink Gross

Manufacturer Model Description Designers Introduced
Tektronix 485 350 MHz portable scope John Addis • Wink Gross • Gene Andrews • Glenn Bateman • Ron Peltola • Bob Firth • Murlan Kaufman • Bob White • Keith Taylor • Dick Troberg 1972
Tektronix 7104 1 GHz mainframe with MCP CRT Val Garuts • Gene Andrews • Hans Springer • John Addis • Wink Gross • Art Metz • Aris Silzars • Conrad Odenthal • Dave Morgan 1978
Tektronix 2445 Portable 150 MHz 4-ch scope Art Metz • Ken Schlotzhauer • Walt Ainsworth • Wink Gross • Mike Metcalf • Marv LaVoie 1984
Tektronix 2465 Portable 150/300 MHz 4-ch scope Art Metz • Ken Schlotzhauer • Walt Ainsworth • Wink Gross • Mike Metcalf • Marv LaVoie 1984
Tektronix R7103 1 GHz non-storage mainframe Val Garuts • Gene Andrews • Hans Springer • John Addis • Wink Gross • Art Metz • Aris Silzars • Conrad Odenthal • Dave Morgan 1985

Components by Wink Gross

Model Class Description Designers Used in
155-0076-00 Monolithic integrated circuit input protection and probe logic John Addis • Wink Gross 465 • 485 • 7A29 • 7A29P • 11A52 • 11A71 • 11A72 • SCD1000
155-0173-00 Hybrid integrated circuit vertical channel switch John Addis • Wink Gross 7104 • R7103 • 7904A • 7934 • EG&G N-AM-173A
155-0175-00 Monolithic integrated circuit broadband amplifier John Addis • Wink Gross • Carl Battjes 7904A • 7912HB • 7934 • 7104 • R7103 • 7A29 • 7A29P • 7F10 • 067-0587-02 • 067-0587-10 • 11A71 • SCD1000 • EG&G N-AM-173A
155-0176-00 Hybrid integrated circuit vertical output amplifier Wink Gross 7104 • SCD1000
155-0180-00 Hybrid integrated circuit fast input protection John Addis • Wink Gross 7A29 • 7A29P • 7F10 • 11A71
155-0181-00 Hybrid integrated circuit input amplifier John Addis • Wink Gross 7A29 • 7A29P • 7F10 • 11A71

Patents by Wink Gross

Page Office Number Title Inventors Company Filing date Grant date
Patent US 4468628A US 4468628A Differential amplifier with high common-mode rejection Wink Gross Tektronix Inc 1983-01-17 1984-08-28
Patent US 4528515A US 4528515A High frequency differential amplifier with adjustable damping factor Wink Gross Tektronix Inc 1983-02-07 1985-07-09
Patent EP 0114731B1 EP 0114731B1 Differential amplifier with high common-mode rejection Wink Gross Tektronix Inc 1984-01-12 1986-09-10
Patent US 4994694A US 4994694A Complementary composite PNP transistor Wink Gross Tektronix Inc 1989-08-23 1991-02-19
Patent US 5708392A US 5708392A Method and apparatus for providing limiting transimpedance amplification Wink Gross Maxim 1996-02-16 1998-01-13