monk went off the air in 2002.
what year did monk go off the air?
2002
sigmatel offered a line of efficient audio and video codec chips that were integrated into many desktop computers, notebooks, and audio playback devices, notably mp3/wma players. other products included microcontrollers for digital appliances, portable compressed video decoders and tv audio products. the line of popular audio chips included portable stmp35xx, stmp36xx, and av capable stmp37xx soc. a key technology was the advanced device driver support of a broad array of multi vendor raw nand flash memory used for program storage and virtual memory in lieu of discrete ram, av file storage, and new audio recordings. the stmp35xx soc was sold into over 150 million portable media players. former ibm engineer dave baker, ph.d. ee utexas austin, and texas instruments alum ee mba danny mulligan led the soc design team at sigmatel. pre-ipo engineer, utexas austin electrical and computer engineering alum and motorola advanced media platforms alum jonathan l. nesbitt was stmp35xx soc software development kit principal lead from 2006 to 2009. several major contributing principal embedded software engineers from the pre-ipo period included thor thayer, ex-motorolan jeff gleason on audio dsp, ut austin alum marc jordan on boot rom and usb, j.c. pina, mit's physicists gray abbott and william (bill) gordon ph.d. others principals formerly with the motorola advanced media platforms division that later become freescale's multimedia group included matt henson of carnegie mellon u and janna garafolo. former motorolan ee tom zudock served as vp of software and managed the software team for the stmp35xx and stmp36xx sdk. other leading technologists that created this texas based system on a chip success are members of the linkedin group sigmatel alumni. several ic fabs in asia were utilized to build soc wafers including tsmc in taiwan.
sigmatel
bullet::::- when natalie and monk go to braddock's hotel room, monk refuses to ride in the elevator, comparing it to being buried alive. natalie thinks he is being irrational, but he archly reminds her that he actually has been buried alive twice before and knows more about it than she does. monk is referring, obliquely, to the events of the season 3 episode "mr. monk vs. the cobra" (when monk was buried in a coffin at a cemetery) and the season 6 episode "mr. monk and the buried treasure" (when monk was buried with dr. kroger's son troy for several hours in a car at a quarry).
mr. monk and the dirty cop