Steve Leibson

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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. The TechShop is coming to downtown San Jose! Ever wanted to run a plasma cutter or a CNC machine? You won’t find those in the Binford catalog in Tim “the toolman” Taylor’s universe but you will find them at the TechShop, a... More

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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 Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he also received the Semico Research Bellwether award from Semico President Jim Feldhan (see photo, right). I was truly impressed with the scope of Kamen’s thinking. This is a man who makes no small plans. Kamen is best known as the inventor of... More

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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 a chance to experience the French urgent care system. In many superficial ways, it resembles the system I’ve used in the US-but with less lighting. However, there are some really interesting differences in procedures. See what you think and then consider the... More

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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 Xilinx to incorporate a hardened processor core. (Back then, it was a PowerPC core.) Fast forward 10 years. After telegraphing its punch at ESC last spring, Xilinx has just introduced the first four members of its EPP product line named Zynq. “What’s an... More

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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 at DAC. This morning, I worked on creating some questions for the panelists with my good friend Markus Levy, President of the Multicore Association, who was the original person scheduled to be the moderator. Here are the questions so far: 1. What comes first with multicore, the... More