Steve Leibson

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 July 6, 20162

Memories of EDN – Starting off big

Although I joined EDN magazine in 1985 after working ten years as a design engineer, my relationship with the magazine Continue Reading...
 May 10, 2011Number of comments0

Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle! TechShop is coming to downtown San Jose

Exiting the Camera 3 movie theaters on Mother’s Day in downtown San Jose, I spotted this banner across the street. Continue Reading...
 May 9, 2011Number of comments0

Dean Kamen—A real-life Tom Swift inventor from the old mold

Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of listening to a keynote speech by inventor Dean Kamen at the Semico Continue Reading...
 March 21, 2011Number of comments0

Do you get the world you build?

I’ve been attending DATE (Design Automation and Test Europe) conference this week in Grenoble and became ill, so I had Continue Reading...
 March 2, 2011Number of comments0

Xilinx Zynq EPPs: Leibson’s Law in action?

Back in 2001, Xilinx introduced the Virtex-II Pro FPGAs based on 130nm process technology. These FPGAs were the first from Continue Reading...
 October 7, 20102

Brute force brings better board

It was Hewlett-Packard’s most ambitious desktop computer todate. The HP 9845A had two 16-bit hybrid microprocessors—one for language processing and Continue Reading...
 June 11, 2010Number of comments0

Questions for the DAC Pavilion Panel on multicore design

As I wrote yesterday, I’ll be chairing a Multicore panel at DAC in Anaheim on Monday in the Panel Pavilion Continue Reading...
 June 11, 2010Number of comments0

Don’t miss the multicore Pavilion panel discussion at DAC on Monday, June 14

I’ll be moderating the Pavilion panel titled “The Multiplier Effect: Developing Multi-Core, Multi-OS Applications” at DAC on Monday at 10:30 Continue Reading...
 April 6, 2010Number of comments0

Once more the Technology Evangelist, at Denali

Last year, I ceased to be a Technology Evangelist and became a marketing consultant. In the ensuing 11 months, I Continue Reading...
 April 2, 20101

Robot does what men cannot do: fold towels

UC Berkeley PhD student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard working with Professor Pieter Abbeel led the team that developed robotic code to fold Continue Reading...