Make Your Technology the Prevailing Technology
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- President/Principal Engineer at Prevailing Technology, Inc.
- Past
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- Sr. Applications Engineering Manager at Xilinx, Inc.
- Director, Vice-President Applications Engineering at Triscend Corporation
- President, CEO at OptiMagic, Inc.
- Regional Sales Manager (Asia Pacific) at Xilinx, Inc.
- Technical Sales Manager (Japan) at Xilinx, K.K.
- New Product Development Manager at Xilinx, Inc.
- Field Applications Engineer (FAE) at Xilinx, Inc.
- Applications Engineer at Intel Corp.
- Research Assistant at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Steven Knapp’s Summary
Have a high-technology product? Looking for smarter customers? We can help establish your technology as the prevailing technology. We help you to better define your product for target markets, create compelling product collateral, demonstrate the key product benefits, and teach your customers and your sales channel.
The Prevailing Technology team engages at any step of the development process. We help define, document, develop, and deploy your high-technology product or service. Specialties include FPGA design, CAE software, and embedded system applications.
Steven Knapp’s Specialties:
technical marketing, technical writing, embedded development, digital system design, product definition, FPGA, system on chip
Steven Knapp’s Experience
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President/Principal Engineer
Prevailing Technology, Inc.
(Semiconductors industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Prevailing Technology, Inc. specializes in assisting technology companies to establish their technology as the prevailing technology.
Exploit our expertise during any phase of product development to better define your product, identify target users, create customer-friendly technical collateral, increase customer adoption, improve time to revenue, and reduce product development and support costs.
Define - critical features, target users and markets, user scenarios, competitive comparisons and benchmarking
Develop - software prototypes, prototype graphical user interfaces, software beta testing, evaluation boards and systems, technical marketing plans, software and design libraries, IP cores, reference designs
Document - data sheets, design handbooks, application notes, user guides, white papers, trade publication articles, conference papers
Deploy - FAE training, customer training, self-support web sites, affinity web sites, user group meetings, technical seminars -
Sr. Applications Engineering Manager
Xilinx, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; XLNX; Semiconductors industry)
August 2002 — March 2007 (4 years 8 months)
Applications Engineering Manager for the Xilinx high-volume FPGA families. Introduced the industry's first 90 nm FPGA family, Spartan-3. Introduced and launched three additional Spartan-3 derivative families, including Spartan-3E, Spartan-3A, and the nonvolatile Spartan-3AN FPGA family.
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Director, Vice-President Applications Engineering
Triscend Corporation
(Semiconductors industry)
January 1998 — August 2002 (4 years 8 months)
Managed application engineering team responsible for the industry's first Configurable System-on-Chip (CSoC) product family, integrating an industry-standard processor, memory, programmable logic, and an on-chip bus architecture. Drove adoption and technical collateral of the 8051- and ARM7TDMI-based CSoC solutions.
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President, CEO
OptiMagic, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1997 — January 1998 (9 months)
Acquired by Alpine Semiconductor, which later become Triscend Corporation.
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Regional Sales Manager (Asia Pacific)
Xilinx, Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; XLNX; Semiconductors industry)
January 1993 — October 1994 (1 year 10 months)
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Technical Sales Manager (Japan)
Xilinx, K.K.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; XLNX; Semiconductors industry)
December 1990 — December 1992 (2 years 1 month)
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New Product Development Manager
Xilinx, Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; XLNX; Semiconductors industry)
January 1989 — December 1990 (2 years )
Architected and managed development of X-BLOX, a logic module generator for Xilinx FPGAs. Specified and managed development of a state-machine compiler for Xilinx FPGA, including a one-hot state assignment algorithm and an integrated fitter for the ABEL software environment.
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Field Applications Engineer (FAE)
Xilinx, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; XLNX; Semiconductors industry)
January 1986 — January 1989 (3 years 1 month)
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Applications Engineer
Intel Corp.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)
June 1984 — January 1986 (1 year 8 months)
Application engineer for Intel Magnetics for the 4Mbit bubble memory. Application engineer with the newly formed Intel Programmable Logic Organization, which second-sourced the Altera EPLD products.
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Research Assistant
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
June 1980 — January 1984 (3 years 8 months)
Additional Information
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Steven Knapp’s Interests:
FPGA, programmable logic, CAE, technical writing, VHDL, Verilog, reconfigurable computing, embedded systems, new technology, science education, customer support, technical training, scuba
Steven Knapp’s Honors:
12 U.S. Patents
