文档介绍：About the Author
Clive “ Max ” Maxfield is six feet tall, outrageously handsome, English and
proud of it. In addition to being a hero, trendsetter, and leader of fashion, he
is widely regarded as an expert in all aspects of electronics puting (at
least by his mother).
After receiving his . in Control Engineering in 1980 from Sheffield
Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University), England, Max began his career
as a designer of central processing units for puters. During his
career, he has designed everything from ASICs to PCBs and has meandered
his way through most aspects of Electronics Design Automation (EDA). To cut
a long story short, Max now finds himself President of TechBites Interactive
( ). A marketing consultancy, TechBites specializes -
municating the value of its clients ’ technical products and services to non-
technical audiences through a variety of media, including websites, advertising,
technical documents, brochures, collaterals, books, and multimedia.
In addition to numerous technical articles and papers appearing in maga-
zines and at conferences around the world, Max is also the author and
co-author of a number of books, including Bebop to the Boolean Boogie (An
Unconventional Guide to Electronics) , Designus Maximus Unleashed (Banned
in Alabama) , Bebop BYTES Back (An Unconventional Guide puters) ,
EDA: Where Electronics Begins , The Design Warrior’s Guide to FPGAs , and
puters Do Math ( ).
In his spare time (Ha!), Max is co-editor and co-publisher of the web-
d elivered electronics puting hobbyist magazine EPE Online ( www.
). Max also acts as editor for the Programmable Logic DesignLine
website ( ) and for the iDESIGN section of the Chip
Design Magazine website ( ).
On the off-chance that you’re still not impressed, Max was once referred to
as an “ industry notable ” and a “ semiconductor design expert ” by someone
famous who wasn’t prompted, coerced, or r