Dr. Anthony K Stevens

Dr. Anthony K. Stevens (born August 8, 1948) is known for his successful and impactful contributions to test engineering. He worked for industry-leading companies such as Advantest, Bell Laboratories, IBM and Intel. He worked on QualQuam cell phone controllers; PowerPC CPUs for Nintendo; Western Digital harddrive controllers; Intel processors, and much more. He has done projects for FairChild, Hughes, On Semiconductor and many others.
==Early years== 
Born 8 August 1948 in Utah, Anthony K Stevens spent his schooling years in Granger, Utah. After graduating from high school he joined the U.S. Air Force in 1966. In 1968, he received an appointment to the Air Force Academy. At his graduation, in 1972, he was honored as the Squadron Commander of the top cadet squadron at the academy. 
Naturally inclined to engineering, he also received a scholarship to Ohio State University to get his master’s degree in nuclear physics in a special nine-month program. He was the only student at Ohio State to pass his master’s degree exam while an undergraduate student. 
He spent most of his Air Force service at a radar station in California. He married Carol Polishak in 1974 and they had five children. 
After his military service, he took a job on the White Sands Missile Range in 1977, which gave him the opportunity to enter New Mexico State University in its electrical engineering doctorate program. After two years, he received his doctorate. 
Contributions to Test Engineering
==Career==
Test engineering uses million-dollar equipment to verify design of computer chips, identify errors and needed corrections and determine each device’s speed sort in the assembly line. 
Dr. Stevens started working at Bell Laboratories in 1980. At that time, test equipment was capable of testing up to 10MHz computer chips. The fastest microprocessors operated at 10MHz. Bell Laboratories was developing a microprocessor that could run at 68 MHz. Dr. Stevens’ duties were to test this device to help the development of it. 
A Japanese company, Advantest, was selling a new tester that could test up to 40 MHz; Bell Laboratories was one of the first purchasers of Advantest’s top equipment. At this time, it was Dr. Stevens’ job to make corrections to the tester in order to test at 68 MHz. He did this with success. 
The Japanese company employed him to implement its tester on many new chip designs around the world. 
Dr. Stevens was able to design an improvement to the tester: to test up to 160MHz. He traveled the world for years testing many of the state-of-the-art computer chips. In 1986, the International Test Conference Committee recognized Dr. Stevens as the Top Test Engineer in the World.
In 1984, Dr. Stevens wrote Introduction to Component Testing. This was translated into Japanese, and to this day, it is used as a standard text for test engineering throughout the world. 
He retired as a test engineer in 2015.
==Author and commentator==
In his spare time in 1990, Dr. Stevens made an audio commentary of the entire Book of Mormon. Dr. Stevens is not a member of the LDS Church. He has found the Book of Mormon to be an excellent source of information on how to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It also gives excellent information on how government and laws are supposed to be formed. In 1995, Dr. Stevens created a radio program, Book of Mormon Radio, at KRXK in Rexburg, Idaho. The program was on for two hours each Sunday and lasted seven months. He was the commentator and hosted the talk show. 
In 2019, Dr. Stevens wrote the book What The Apostles Taught That Is Not Taught Today. This book and the audio for his commentary and radio show is available at no charge on the website https://BookofMormonRadio.org.
==Selected bibliography==
Test Engineering
* Introduction to Component Testing (1986)
Religion/Philosophy
* What the Apostles Taught (2019)
Category:1948 births
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Category:United States Air Force Academy alumni
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