Clive “Max” Maxfield acts as a freelance high-technology writer and consultant at Maxfield High-Tech Consulting LLC (www.CliveMaxfield.com). He is also the president of TechBites Inc. (www.TechBites.com) – a unique mix of editorial and technical content with social networking – where he leads the Chip Design, FPGA Design, and PCB Design communities.
Max received his B.Sc. in Control Engineering in 1980 from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) in England. Max began his career as a designer of central processing units for mainframe computers. Over the years, Max has designed all sorts of interesting “stuff” from silicon chips to circuit boards and brainwave amplifiers to Steampunk “Display-O-Meters”. He has also been involved at the forefront of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for more than 20 years.
Max’s numerous technical articles have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, including ED, EDN, Chip Design, EE Times, PCB Design, and the electronics and computing hobbyist magazine Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE). Also, Max he has held contributing editor or executive editor roles at Programmable Logic DesignLine, Chip Design Magazine, SOC Central, and Everyday Practical electronics. Max has also presented papers at technical conferences around the world [this year he presented at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley in April and ESC India in July].
Max is the author and co-author of a number of books, including Designus Maximus Unleashed (Banned in Alabama), Bebop To The Boolean Boogie (An Unconventional Guide to Electronics), Bebop BYTES Back (An Unconventional Guide to Computers), EDA: Where Electronics Begins, 3D Graphics on Windows NT, The Design Warrior’s Guide to FPGAs, FPGAs: Instant Access, and How Computers Do Math.
Learn more about Max at: www.techbites.com/Max-Maxfield, or email him at: max@techbites.com
