Facts:   - death place: saratoga , california    - alt: full with white hair and a full white mustache and long face beard portrait , showing mature glasses-wearing adult male    - other names: bob pease    - known for: analog integrated circuit design , technical author    - death date: 18 june 2011    - occupation: electronics engineer      - birth date: 22 august 1940    - name: robert a. pease    - nationality: american    - image: 20110622-national-semiconductor-bob-pease-250x350 . jpg    - birth place: rockville , connecticut    - religion: episcopalian    - alma mater: massachusetts institute of technology   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of bob pease .
The answer to this question is:
robert allen pease -lrb- august 22 , 1940 -- june 18 , 2011 -rrb- was an analog integrated circuit design expert and technical author .he designed several very successful `` best-seller '' integrated circuits , many of them in continuous production for multiple decades .these include the lm331 voltage to frequency converter , and the lm337 adjustable negative voltage regulator -lrb- complement to the lm317 -rrb- .