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Welcome, Steve Leibson!
- Steve and Chris share an alma mater, Case Western Reserve University.
- Steve started his career at HP, working on the HP9825 (which Steve keeps history on).
- The SOL20, an S-100 based on the Z80.
- Came with a high quality keyboard made by Cherry and had sideboards made of Walnut.
- A video of a re-build of a SOL20
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt8gXLlfB5c[/tube]
- Like many people, Steve has an opinion on the split of HP and Agilent.
- Next Steve began writing. He eventually became the editor in chief of EDN magazine!
- He also the was the VP of Content and the Editor in Chief at Microprocessor Report.
- Steve bounced between writing and working at CAD companies, like Cadnetix. That later merged with DAISY systems. The merger of the two was a “fiasco”.
- After all the mergers and moves, Steve ended up running the Denali Memory Report and as a marketer at Cadence when they acquired Denali in 2010. Steve now regularly writes for the EDA360 Insider Blog.
- Steve recently attended the Design Automation Conference, which is now in its 49th year!
- Startups are still a possibility according to Steve; in fact, they can be quite profitable if you find the right niche.
- Leibson’s Law says that it takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to be adopted by designers. That rule of thumb is based on decades of observation and includes the adoption of transistors, ICs, microprocessors, C for embedded design, etc.
- Steve worked on an infomercial with Leonard Nimoy as an expert for e-Commerce and touch screens…or whatever they needed him to be an expert on.
- [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owo8kcaT-8s[/tube]
- [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGDdfAD3ICw[/tube]
Thanks again to Steve for being on our show! It was a great insight into the EDA world!
Thanks to Chris & Dave for inviting Steve Leibson!
This was a really inspiring and motivating show.
Keep them comming…
I love how you guys are so optimistic for our future.
Yours Stefan
So marketing people CAN have soul !
Joking asides, a very interesting episode, full of colorfull memories (pun intended), thank you so much Mr Leibson.
One of the best show …. extremely interesting
you guys should definitely invite Steve Leibson to a another show!
Good to hear someone else remembers Bill Gates’ Midnight Engineering magazine. Anyone out there know what happened to him.. I believe he had purchased a HUGE proper printing press, and gotten it aligned, synched, and running shortly before the magazine went away.
Anyone?
Google/Wiki tell me it has morphed into this once a year conference in Denver. Might be worth checking out. http://www.entconnect.org/
I had seen that.. It just does not seem as ambitious as his earlier stuff.. I really miss the magazine.
I am starting to see more small business/ start-up articles in various magazines lately ( digital machinist, home shop machinist, and circuit cellar most notably ) but Midnight Engineering had a certain enthusiasm and.. high goals I don’t always see else where.
Great guest, as always 🙂
Im glad he thinks its possible for mram/f-ram to win over nand. I frickin HATE SSDs. This 19nm stuff has <1000 write cycles. Intel already pushes for Triple-level Cell with <500 write cycles. Its crazy :/
Dave: Google doesnt use enterprise class equipment. In fact they are rather famous for building infrastructure with COTS parts. They rely on software to provide high availability(redundancy on whole unit/rack level instead of module) and computational power(MapReduce thru PageRank/hadoop).
Loved Numoy story, I even shed a tear from laughter 🙂
Good job guys.
As a user of flash systems (SSDs) that incorporate such NAND, the limited writes are invisible to you and a good product will have a lifetime on-par or exceeding a mechanical drive. Most consumers don’t need to write to the drive 24/7. In enterprise, there’s much more expensive drives that explicitly use flash that can last longer and have more redundancy. Of course, you’ll have to pay for it.
Great show.
I enjoyed the little factoid about Leibsons law. It is amazing how people who create/produce some of the most disruptive technologies i.e the IC designers are conservative when it comes to choosing their tools.
Top show. Love hearing guests telling tales about their industry.
Allan Enterprise class SSDs use SLC nand in bigger process, not to mention you are paying for much bigger spare space (nand that is invisible to the user and just sits there as a backup to replace dying sectors).
You wont find those features in bottom feeders. Mass produced crap uses cheapest MLC they can find (and already salivate just thinking about whole CENTS per chip they can profit using Tripple level NAND with quarter of write cycles). Those drives dont just break, they suddenly DIE taking all your data with them. I dont want magnetic HDDs that last over 10 years getting replaced with SSDs that will be dead in 3.
Complete asside, but Cherry is still in business and supplies pretty much all the switches used in nearly every mechanical switch keyboard.
Digikey even sells them several mechanical switch keyboards.
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/G803000LSCEU2/CH979-ND/2601953