R. Jacob Baker, Ph.D.
Dr. Baker joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho on the Boise State campus in 1993 after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Nevada, Reno and completing 8 years of work with EG&G as a design engineer. In 2000, he joined the faculty at Boise State University where he helped establish graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering. He became department chair the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2004 and served in that position until 2007. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State. From 1986 to 2001, Dr. Baker`s research centered on analog circuit design for instrumentation and communication systems (sweep circuits, PLLs, data converters, modem design, fiber optic receivers and transmitters, etc.) In the last few years, he has also worked on applying fundamental digital signal processing techniques to enhance sensing in array structures including: displays, CMOS imagers, and floating-gate/nascent memory technologies (e.g., flash, chalcogenide and magnetic). Dr. Baker`s current research focuses on analog and mixed-signal circuit design for communication systems, synchronization, and data conversion especially using the K-Delta-1-Sigma modulator. His research focuses on finding and electronic replacement for the hard disk drive using nascent fabrication technologies. Dr. Baker holds over 200 granted or pending patents in integrated circuit design. Among his inventions is the K-Delta-1-Sigma modulator topology used in the Baker analog-to-digital converter. He is a member of the electrical engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu, a licensed Professional Engineer, and the author of the books CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, CMOS: Mixed-Signal Circuit Design, and a coauthor of DRAM Circuit Design: Fundamental and High-Speed Topics. He received the 2000 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the 2007 Frederick Emmons Terman Award. View Full CV

Richard A. Blanchard, Ph.D.
Dr. Blanchard has over 35 years experience in the semiconductor and electronics industries, with Fairchild Semiconductor, Supertex, Siliconix, IXYS Corporation, Failure Analysis Associates (Exponent), IP Managers and SVEWG. Dr. Blanchard has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in semiconductor technology, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Foothill College. Dr. Blanchard was previously Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager of the Electrical & Electronic Division of Failure Analysis (Exponent) Associates, where he was employed for seven years. As Division Manager, he performed numerous forensic tests and analysis of electronic and electrical systems and of semiconductor devices. These were often subject to legal disputes, particularly those involving intellectual property rights. Dr. Blanchard has testified in court and served on numerous occasions as an expert witness on technologies that include MOS, MOSFET & bipolar device technology; semiconductor device physics; microchip fabrication & analysis; electronic systems; electrical & electronic failures; ESD & EOS failures; semiconductor device/integrated circuit assembly & packaging; CMOS, DMOS & BiCMOS; power IC`s & power electronics; printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing; semiconductor process & control. In addition, he has served as an arbitrator and a "Special Master" to the court. Dr. Blanchard has published several books and numerous articles on semiconductor technology and devices. He holds more than 130 US patents on semiconductor technology and is a member of the IEEE, the Electrostatic Discharge Society, and the International Micro-circuits and Packaging Society. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1982. View Full CV

Clyde 'Kip' M. Brown, Jr.
Mr. Brown has over 35 years experience in the semiconductor and electronics industry with GTE Sylvania, Siliconix, Intersil, Sage Enterprises, Raytheon, Fairchild, Mosel-Vitelic, Micrel and The Engineering Consortium Group. Mr. Brown has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in semiconductor technologies, with emphasis in analog mixed signal design and process engineering and has lectured and taught courses in analog and integrated circuit design at UC Berkeley and Cogswell Polytechnical College. Mr. Brown has designed and fabricated numerous mixed signal ASICs using CMOS, Bipolar, BiCMOS and DMOS technologies. He has unique experience in low voltage CMOS and Bipolar applications including medical devices and hearing aids, on-chip optical sensors and sensor interfaces and has designed and developed circuitry used in over 30% of the hearing aid market worldwide. Mr. Brown has also designed and developed a full line of high voltage mixed signal "Smart Power" products, which received the "Top 100 products" award. Mr. Brown has testified as an expert witness in numerous high technology semiconductor litigation matters involving analog mixed signal, CMOS, Video IF circuitry, CCFl inverters, Power MOS devices, microprocessors, and semiconductor device design and process engineering. He has also served as a court appointed neutral arbitrator in complex technology. Mr. Brown has 10 US patents in semiconductor technology and is a member of NSPE/CSPE, IEEE, IMAPS (Past Chapter President), American Academy of Audiology and the International Hearing Society. He has received Bachelor`s and Master`s degrees in Applied Science Electronics from Portland State University in 1967 and 1968, respectively. View Full CV

Jack D. Grimes, Ph.D.
Dr. Grimes has over 35 years experience in the computer, Internet and video graphics industries with ServiceHub, Visa International, ICVerify, Taligent, Mass Microsystems, Intel, IT&T, and Tektronix. Mr. Grimes has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Internet commerce, Java, ASP, Unix, NT, scalability, security and payments, data security, chip cards, credit and debit cards, SET and ACH methods, computer graphics and TV video platforms, video capture and overlay systems, video display devices, ASIC design, compressed video, digital satellite TV technologies, and various internet platform architectures. He has developed Internet technology architecture with wireless data to SMS and browsers for mobile phones, chip card technology for Visa with internet payment systems, object-oriented applications for IBM, Apple and HP, video peripherals and graphic ASIC`s. Dr. Grimes has testified as an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving payment systems, computer systems and displays, e-commerce, automated trading systems, ASIC`s, LCD panel controllers, remote image capture, wireless technology, 3D graphics, CRT monitors, power saving circuits, and video display and graphic systems. Dr. Grimes has testified in numerous ITC, Markman and Federal patent cases and has published many articles in the aforementioned technologies. He received BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1965, 1968 and 1970, respectively and a MS degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1981. View Full CV

Stephen B. Heppe, Ph.D.
Dr. Heppe has over 25 years experience in the area of communications engineering with General Electric Space Division, Stanford Telecommunications, Telenergy and the Insitu Group. Dr. Heppe has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in satellite communications, GPS/cellular and radio technologies, CATV user interfaces, cell networks, GSM and Voice over IP (VoIP). He has developed aircraft avionics, including data radios, GPS navigation, satellite communications, video processing, RF transmission and sensors and flight control, as well as VHF radio communications protocol for aircraft networking, spectrum engineering for satellite communications (Globalstar), mobile satellite systems and various space based Government systems including Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS), the Strategic Defense System (SDS), spaced based radar (SBR), Milstar, NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRSS), various naval satellite systems and the network for the US Air Force Consolidated Space Operations Center (CSOC). Dr. Heppe is familiar with GPS position and velocity determination for aircraft, spacecraft and ground vehicles, differential GPS and automatic dependent surveillance (ADS), navigation accuracy determination, flight testing hardware and software and protocol development and signal processing. Dr. Heppe has testified in numerous patent cases and in an ITC matter. He has published several articles and holds 2 US patents in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BSEE degree (Computer Science emphasis) from Princeton University in 1977 and his MS and Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Communications emphasis) from George Washington University in 1982 and 1989, respectively. View Full CV

Krishna Shenai, Ph.D.
Dr. Shenai has over 30 years of combined industry, research, academic, consulting and entrepreneurial experience with COMSAT Labs, General Electric Corporate R&D Center, Intel Corporation, The University of Wisconsin Madison, The University of Illinois - Chicago, Utah State University and the University of Toledo. Dr. Shenai has also served as an independent consultant for over 50 Fortune-2000 companies worldwide, and has testified in court on several occasions as an expert witness on matters related to intellectual property litigation. His expertise covers the physics and technology of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits used for signal and power processing, semiconductor manufacturing, low-power mixed-signal and RF/microwave electronics, power semiconductor devices and power electronics, power management, renewable energy and smart power grid, sensors and wireless communication networks, environmental sensing and ecosystem monitoring, medical devices and biomedical instrumentation, robotic surgery, and electronics system failure and reliability. He is a named inventor in 12 issued US patents and over 40 international patents, and has authored or co-authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications of which more than 100 are in IEEE journals. He has edited 3 books and contributed to 8 book chapters. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of AAAS, a Fellow of IETE (India), a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society, and a member of the Yugoslavian National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Shenai received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics from Indian Institute of Technology - Madras in 1979, a MSEE degree from The University of Maryland - College Park, MD in 1981, and his Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University in 1986. View Full CV

1001
Expert has over 35 years of computer science and electrical engineering industry experience. He has prior experience in multiple engagements as a patent infringement and class action expert witness. Currently an independent consultant, he has worked for large computer manufacturers as part of engineering teams developing hardware and software systems. He has testifying and deposition experience.

• Circuit Design
• Computer Disk Drive Design
• Computer Disk Seek Servo Systems
• Host Computer Interfaces
• Integrated Disk Controller Design
• Microcontroller Interfaces
• PC BIOS Software
• PC, Windows & Embedded Software
• PC Languages

1011
Expert has a Ph.D. in engineering and over twenty years experience at the senior levels of management in large and small high technology companies and universities. He has lectured and authored publications on engineering management and many aspects of electric power technology, and has five patents. He is an experienced and well-regarded expert in engineering management and electric power fallen conductor detection technology. He has consulted on twenty-five court cases involving personal injury, and cases involving property damage from fire and electrical outages, including device operation. He has experience with live deposition and trial testimony.

• Electric Power Systems
• Energy Conservation Systems
• Power System Operations
• Instrumentation of Energy Systems
• Microcomputer Applications
• Fallen Conductor Detection Technology
• Engineering Management
• NASA Space Station Electric Power
• Electric Utility Systems
• Technology Transfer Programs
• High Frequency Current
• Analysis of Electric Faults
• Electric Power Safety
• Electric Power Risk Management

1013
Expert has a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering and over twenty years experience in high-speed fiber-optic and electronic component design and manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, and device physics. His experience includes original theoretical and experimental contributions in the field of optical and microwave semiconductor devices, development of semiconductor device processes and equipment. He has fourteen patents and previous experience as an expert witness with testifying experience.

• Semiconductor lasers
• Microwave semiconductor diodes
• Light-emitting diodes (LED)
• Fiber-optics and devices
• Silicon and compound semiconductor device processing and process characterization
• Semiconductor processing equipment
• Mathematical modeling of electronic and opto-electronic devices, packages, and systems
• Microwave and high-speed optical test equipment and methods

1014
Expert has over twenty-eight years of extremely broad based experience in the analysis, simulation, design, development, integration, testing and debug of multi-disciplinary electronic systems. Since 1981 as an engineering consultant, and from 1977-1981 as a founding employee of a high tech startup, he has designed and managed the development of numerous electronic systems, printed circuit board designs, software programs, firmware, control systems and other devices. He has three patents. His primary areas of focus include instrumentation and control systems, digital and analog circuit design; signal integrity simulation and modeling for high-speed digital circuits; medical product design and development; power management and distribution in electronic equipment/products; data communications products; data compression systems; multi-disciplinary system design and simulation; automatic test equipment (ATE) product development; embedded firmware; and software for a plurality of hardware platforms, in several different programming languages. He has debugged malfunctioning products and systems and reverse-engineered and tested electronic hardware and software based products for a number of clients. He has been an expert witness in ten engagements.

• Medical Electronics and Equipment
• Interdisciplinary Systems Engineering
• Electronic Product and Circuit Design, Development, Debug and Integration
• Real Time Applications Programming
• Data Compression
• Instrumentation and Control Systems
• Electronic System Power Distribution
• Printed Circuit Board Engineering
• Signal Integrity for High Speed Digital Circuits
• Electro-Magnetic Interference Control
• Speech Recognition and Synthesis
• DVD Player technology
• Hardware Simulation and Modeling

1015
Expert is a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at a nationally-known university. He has crafted numerous publications dealing with system architectures, data communication networks, and computer performance issues. His industry experience includes formerly a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs. He has previous expert witness experience.

• Digital Signal Processing Architectures
• General Purpose Computer Architectures
• VLSI Design
• Computer Graphics
• Memory system architecture
• DRAM, SRAM, EEPROM, and Flash memory

1026
This expert is a professor in electrical engineering and patent holder. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Information Theory
• Communication Theory
• Multiterminal Source Coding
• Wireless Telephony Theory ; Random Signals.
• Robust Communication Networks
• Signature Verification and Compression
• Identification/verification; Random Fields
• Video Compression; Speaker; Data Compression
• Rate Distortion; Videocodec Development

1028
Expert has over twenty-five years of experience in all areas of wireless communications, including wireless LAN technologies, frequency-hop and direct sequence spread spectrum systems, DBS and VSAT satellite communications, cellular & PCS radio design including CDMA and TDMA, RF design for CATV and DOCSIS, and OFDM broadband wireless. Experienced legal consultant in patent assessment and litigation support with testifying experience, and technology due diligence analysis for venture capital investment.

• CDMA
• TDMA
• OFDM
• Cable
• DOCSIS/Cable
• PCS/Cellular
• WiMAX
• RF Design
• Satellite Communications
• Spread-Spectrum
• Wireless LAN

1030
Expert has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunications field. His field of work includes cellular, two-way paging systems and wireless home LAN systems. He has been responsible for firmware, hardware, software and systems engineering for products for the GPRS market. He has recently been involved in the formation of a new company to develop wireless network infrastructure for 802.11. He has six patents and has been involved in two expert witness engagements, including one that generated a positive outcome verdict for over $100m.

• Digital Signal Processing
• Wireless Communication Protocols
• Wireless Equipment Hardware and Software Design and Implementation
• DSL technology
• Coding Techniques
• OSI Layers
• Network Operations

1042
Expert is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Sciences, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is well known as the inventor or co-inventor of Order Statistic Filters; the Gabor Texture Model; the Image Modulation Model; the Structural Similarity (SSIM) and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) Indices for image quality assessment, the MOtion-based Video Integrity Evaluation (MOVIE) index for video quality assessment, the LIVE Image and Video Quality Databases, and SIVA - the Signal, Image and Video Audiovisual Demonstration Gallery (used by more than 400 sites around the world), as well as many other contributions to the fields of image and video processing, computational vision, digital microscopy, and modeling of biological visual perception. He has published over 500 technical articles in these areas and holds two U.S. patents. He is also the author of three books. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and Markman testimony.

• Image Processing
• Digital Video Communication
• Computational Biological Visual Perception
• Signal Processing
• Pattern Analysis and Processing

1044
Expert has over 29 years of experience in the high-tech industry as Engineer, Technologist, and as a Senior Executive. He is a creative engineer with 11 US patents, mostly focused in the field of Non-Volatile Memory (EPROM/EEPROM, Flash), and is a recognized Technical Expert for over 24 years. Has hands-on experience of designing, debugging, testing, and product engineering of EPROM, EEPROM, and Flash Memory Chips and Flash Memory Cards (containing Flash memory IC and memory card controllers to confirm to PCMCIA and CompactFlash standards), and was a part of the CompactFlash standards committee. He has hands on experience in designing, simulating, implementing (using CAD tools), testing, and debugging circuits for digital, analog, memory, and logic circuits in various IC technologies such as CMOS, bi-polar, GaAs, InP, etc. . He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition.

• IC Design
• IC Device Physics
• EEPROM, Flash + all Non-Volatile Memory IC
• Programmable Logic IC
• Flash Cards/Smart Cards/RFID
• Memory Modules
• RF Design
• Data Encryption, Security
• Nano-Technology

1052
This expert has a strong skill base in Integrated Circuit and System Design with a proven track record in CMOS digital and mixed signal designs, Integrated Circuit layout, and, Integrated Circuit debugging from his 31 years of experience. He is a patent holder and is an experience expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• ASIC Design
• Consumer Electronics
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Legal Consultant
• LSI & VLSI Design
• Microprocessor Architecture
• Reverse Engineering
• Video Display Controllers

1055
Expert is an internationally recognized authority on video display systems and monitors. His involvement with video and display related design spans more than 30 years. It includes computer output displays from the earliest computer terminals to the present high-resolution, multi-frequency CAD monitors, airborne and ground simulation displays, consumer and industrial video products, frame capture and image processing, LCD pixel addressing, VR and head-mounted displays, and most recently, projection using LCOS. In addition, he has designed high-speed video cameras and audio amplifiers for the industrial marketplace, a video transmitter/receiver pair for CAT5 cable, and fiber optic transceivers for the telecommunications industry. Expert is highly skilled in such areas as high frequency and high performance analog design, digital design, phase-locked loops, video and audio amplifiers, switch mode power supplies, and magnetics. His involvement in design starts with system or product definition, hands-on board level design, fabrication, assembly, test, documentation, and release of the design to production. In addition to the hardware aspects of video and mixed signal design, he is well versed in the fields of photometry and human factors, and excels at written communication on technical subjects. He is an experienced expert witness.

• Video Displays
• High Frequency Analog Design
• Video/Audio Amplifiers
• Power Supplies
• Video Monitors
• Digital Design
• Phase-locked Loops
• Magnetics

1066
Expert is the department chair and professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and is a professor at a prominent University. He has published more than 300 papers in various journals. He has also written a book and several book chapters. His research has been sponsored by (past and present) DARPA, NSF, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, DOE, Intel, IBM, and TI. His research interests are in High-Performance I/O and Storage, Databases and data warehouses, E-commerce and Web services, Storage systems, Super Computing and Parallel Computing, Embedded systems, Computer architecture, web-based systems, System Software and algorithms, Data Mining, Marketing and Analytical Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, and Information Security. He is also interested in high-level synthesis on Systems-on-Chip applying compilation principles to the synthesis process. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments.

• Databases and data warehouses, OLAP
• E-commerce and web-based systems
• Programming Languages
• Storage systems
• Super Computing and Parallel Computing
• Embedded systems
• Computer architecture
• High-Performance I/O and storage
• On-Line marketing
• System Software and algorithms
• Data Mining
• Marketing and Analytical Marketing
• Customer Relationship Management
• Business Intelligence
• Information Security

1067
Expert is a professor in computer Science his Interests are uniprocessor architecture and organization, architecturally-focused performance measurement and analysis, computer architecture and more generally, clocking and timing issues in digital systems. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Computer Architecture
• Memory Systems
• Data Storage

1077
Expert is regarded in the industry as a bar code pioneer. He was the founder of the first company to design and manufacture bar code scanning equipment. His history with bar codes goes back to the mid-1960s when he was project manager for the rail car identification project at Sylvania/GTE. He worked and traveled across the globe in pursuit of bar code`s early adoption and in the process he earned a reputation as the "father" of the bar code industry. He has since received many honors for his work. His vast experience has been called upon by numerous companies and agencies to assist in the planning and design responsibility for bar code applications in manufacturing and distribution management. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Bar Codes and Scanning Systems
• Automatic Identification Technology
• RFID
• Hardware Configuration
• Labeling & Printing
• Code Systems Integration

1084
Expert has over 25 years of specialized experience in electromagnetic systems for industry, academia, and government. His professional background includes high performance electric machines of all types: motors, actuators, sensors, and transformers; switchgear; magnetic levitation; power electronics and power systems; robotics; force feedback devices and haptics; electromagnetic shielding and eddy currents; and plasmas and radar. He is recognized as an innovative technologist who has published widely and given numerous successful presentations on new technologies at professional meetings and educational forums. His work has resulted in several issued patents.

• Electric machines: motors, actuators, sensors, and transformers
• Robotics
• Plasma physics
• Radar
• Magnetic levitation
• Power electronics and power systems
• Force feedback and Haptics
• Electromagnetic shielding
• Eddy currents

1089
Expert is a Professor of Engineering (Electrical). Courses taught include: Engineering Electronics, Circuit Analysis, Linear Network Analysis, Feedback and Control Systems, Digital Control Systems, Signals and Systems.

• Computer Data Acquisition
• Computer Telephony
• Digital Control Systems
• Electronic Circuit Analysis
• Electronic Switching Systems
• Feedback and Control Systems
• Interoffice Trunk Signaling
• Switching System Operation and Maintenance Plans

1099
Expert is an Emeritus Professor in Electrical Engineering, holds several patents and is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments.

• Architecture of high performance computer systems
• Experimental software and hardware for computing and communication
• Custom VLSI microcomputers and signal processing circuits
• Digital signal processing for storage devices and communication systems

1102
Expert`s experiences have included high power klystron design, millimeter-wave radiometer and antenna design, radio telescope antenna and microwave hardware design, HF antenna design for ionospheric sounding, electrically-despun satellite antenna design, millimeter-wave high-gain autotracking antenna design, payload design for INTELSAT V and VII satellites, system design for Globalstar Satellite Cellular System, antennas for tracking high data rate satellites, phased array satellite receiving antenna design, system engineering and proposal preparation on various satellite projects.

• Antenna Design, HF / VHF / UHF / Microwave
• Antenna Pattern and Gain Measurement Capability
• Passive RF Hardware (matching circuits, etc.) Design
• Communication Satellite Link Analysis
• Satellite Communication Hardware and System Design
• Electromagnetic Interference Measurements & Problem Solving
• Electromagnetic Field Safety Issues and Field Measurements