Steve Leibson

Steve Leibson is the Technology Evangelist at Tensilica, Inc. He's an experienced hardware and software design engineer, engineering manager, and design consultant, having spent 10 years working at electronic systems companies including HP's Desktop Computer Division, Auto-Trol Technology (graphics workstations), and Cadnetix (EDA workstations) after earning his BSEE cum laude from Case Western Reserve University. At HP, Auto-Trol, and Cadnetix, he specialized in the design of desktop computers and workstations, especially in the areas of system and I/O design.

He then spent 15 years as an award-winning technology journalist, publishing more than 200 articles in Microprocessor Report, EDN, EE Times, Electronic News, and the Embedded Developers Journal. He served as Editor in Chief of both EDN and the Microprocessor Report and was the founding Editor in Chief of the Embedded Developers Journal. Leibson has just written and published “Designing SOCs with Configured Cores,” a treatise on 21st-century MPSOC design. In 2004, he co-authored “Engineering the Complex SOC” with Tensilica's president and CEO Chris Rowen, which has been used as a textbook in university classes. Twenty years ago, he wrote and published “The Handbook of Microcomputer Interfacing” that went through two editions; was published in English, French, and Dutch; and was also used as a university textbook for many years. Over the past several years he's contributed chapters to several books on SOC and processor design.

Leibson has given many presentations including day-long technical seminars on embedded design topics at Microprocessor and Embedded Processor Forums over several years. He has given tutorials in chip-level system design as an invited speaker at SOC-design and EDA conferences in countries around the world including the US, France, China, and Finland. Since joining Tensilica as its Technology Evangelist, Leibson has published numerous technical articles relating to chip-level system design in trade and engineering-society magazines published in countries around the world including the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and China.

He is an IEEE Senior Member.

Here are links to

my company: www.tensilica.com

A Web page about my new book: http://books.elsevier.com/mk/?isbn=0123724988&srccode=85152

My personal Web site documenting my early work with microprocessors in Loveland, Colorado: www.hp9825.com