Steve Leibson

Steve Leibson is the Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Planning at Xilinx. He started as a system design engineer at HP in the early days of desktop computing, then switched to EDA at Cadnetix, and subsequently became a technical editor for EDN Magazine. He's served as Editor in Chief of EDN Magazine, Embedded Developers Journal, and Microprocessor Report. He has extensive experience in computing, microprocessors, microcontrollers, embedded systems design, design IP, EDA, and programmable logic.

Steve started writing in 1977 at Hewlett-Packard for the company's desktop computer customer magazine, called "Keyboard." That's when the microcomputer and PC magazines were just coming on line, so he started to write for them in exchange for products to review. By 1985, he'd decided to go full time into writing and joined the electronics industry trade magazine, EDN. Eventually, he became Editor in Chief of EDN.

In 1996, he decided to go back into industry.