Steve Hoover
Founder at Redwood EDA
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Hoover is the founder of Redwood EDA and a seasoned logic designer with over two decades of experience architecting and verifying high-performance server CPUs and HPC network chips at Intel and prior companies. He pivoted from hands-on RTL leadership to founding Redwood to tackle the stagnant EDA tooling landscape, pioneering Transaction-Level Verilog and tools like Makerchip.com to raise design abstraction without losing detailed control. His work bridges industry-grade silicon practices and open-source hardware—enabling projects such as the WARP-V RISC-V core generator and cloud FPGA workflows on Amazon F1. Steve combines deep system- and transistor-level insight with practical methodology innovation, having driven novel post-silicon power strategies, coherence engines, and memory controllers. Based in Shrewsbury, MA, he is focused on making radically better design methods accessible, accelerating a potential tidal wave of open-source hardware adoption. An understated strength is his ability to convert hard-won, production-scale hardware experience into developer-friendly languages and platforms that shorten design cycles.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish
Github Skills (77)
verilog10
lattice10
python10
vhdl10
asic10
risc10
makecode10
cpp10
haskell10
xilinx10
fpga10
warp10
swift10
vivado10
logic10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
stevehoover/RISC-V_MYTH_Workshop
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Accompanying live info and links for VLSI Design Systems and Redwood EDA "Microprocessor for You in Thirty Hours" Workshop
Contributions:173 commits, 11 PRs, 164 pushes in 2 years 4 months
workshopedavlsimicroprocessorvlsi-design
stevehoover/immutable
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 78 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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