Career
He founded a company called Brooktree in 1983 to commercialize a new architecture for digital to analog converters that he developed. The company name was taken from the street name where Doctor Katzenstein lived at the time he invented the then-novel circuit arrangement. The company"s first product to reach the market was an 8-bit Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Doctorate/A converter intended for video applications.
Introduced in early 1985, the first "VideoDAC" had an output clock rate of up to 75 MHz and 1/4 LSB accuracy—3-8 times better than typical contemporary devices.
A headline in the 27 June edition of Electronic Design called the device "trailblazing".
