Clive "Bebop" Maxfield rides again

As the Editor in Chief of EDN in the mid 1990s, I had the privilege of publishing some of Clive Maxfield's earlier writing under the bombastic title of Designus Maximus. It was an appropriate name for Clive's expansive personality. Clive has published several books over the years, which you can find on Amazon, but he started a new role today as a biweekly columnist for John Miklosz's SOC Central Web site. In this first column, Clive does a very respectable job of discussing how much SOC design has changed in just the last six years. We've gone from dipping our toes in deep-submicon design issues to neck deep, and the water's rising. All of these issues portend great changes in the way we'll be designing SOCs in the coming years.