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

John C. Bravman, Ph.D.
Dr. Bravman has over 25 years experience consulting for the computer, semiconductor, consumer electronics and material sciences industries with Fairchild Semiconductor Laboratories, Lockheed, National Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Intel and Applied Plasma Laboratories. Dr. Bravman currently serves at Stanford University as the Bing Centennial Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering, the Freeman Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and Dean of the Freshman-Sophomore College. Dr. Bravman joined the Stanford faculty in 1984 after completing his B.S. (1979), M.S. (1982), and Ph.D. (1984) degrees at Stanford. From 1996 to 1999 he was Chairman of his department, and from 1992 to 2001 he was the Senior Associate Dean in the School of Engineering. Dr. Bravman has consulted and testified in numerous intellectual property litigation matters in Federal, District and ITC venues concerning integrated circuit (IC) failure processes and phenomena, mechanical behavior of thin films, high spatial resolution materials analysis, microelectronic materials analysis, electromigration phenomena, microelectronic packaging, structures and materials. He has also served the government on many review boards, including the Solid State Sciences Committee, and has served on or chaired the National Advisory Board of the Materials Programs at Sandia National Laboratories and the Chemical and Materials Sciences Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. In 1994 he was President of the Materials Research Society. Dr. Bravman teaches and advises undergraduates at all levels and directs doctoral students in the areas of silicon process technology, the mechanical properties of thin films, and transmission electron microscopy. He is co-author of over 170 research publications. He has won nine teaching and advising awards while at Stanford, served as a Resident Fellow, a University Fellow, and has chaired many university committees on integrated circuit manufacturing. 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

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

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

1063
Expert has a strong background in management and integration of state-of-the-art technologies and concepts into products for both domestic and international markets. His engineering experience involves leading-edge projects spanning systems architecture to hardware development and software coding. Current activities include exploration of new business paradigms for Internet-based provisioning of information services for the consumer marketplace.

• MPEG2
• Digital Cable
• TV Broadcast Systems
• Internet Telecommunications
• Fiber Optic & xDSL Networks
• VLSI Integrated Circuit & ASIC Design & Development
• Ethernet Networking

1123
This expert is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at a major university. He received the Ph.D. from Duke University in 1969. He then spent 12 years at Bell Labs working on semiconductor devices and integrated circuit technology. He returned to North Carolina in 1981 and spent 13 years as a vice president of MCNC, having responsibilities in chip design, computer-aided design, packaging, process technology, and MEMS. His current research interests include bio-MEMS and digital microfluidic chips, but he teaches courses in IC design, IC processing, silicon devices, and biochip engineering. He has published over 150 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, written 10 book chapters, edited nine books or conference proceedings, and given over 120 invited talks, mostly in the area of semiconductor devices or the fabrication thereof. This expert is also a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, past Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the IEEE, and he has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. He has been involved in over 70 patent lawsuits as an expert witness.

• Silicon processing: ion implantation, diffusion metallization, plasma etching, planarization, lithography, thin film deposition, oxidation, processing tools, isolation, gettering, plasma processing, polysilicon, silicides, NMOS, CMOS, BiCMOS, Bipolar
• Circuit design: linear ICs, sampled data ICs, power converters, DACs, voltage references, current sources, op amps, current-controlled logic.
• Semiconductor devices: BJTs, MOSFETs, RF LDMOS, ESD protection devices and circuits
• MEMS, microfluidic devices, electrowetting, lab-on-a-chip technology/devices

1140
This expert has over thirty years experience in IC and EDA (Electronic Design Automation). He was one of the first users of the SPICE circuit simulation program. He co-founded an EDA company, Analogy Inc., that developed the first commercial mixed-signal behavioral simulator, Saber. He and his team were responsible for the creation of the library of analog, mixed-signal and mixed-technology behavioral models. He was also involved from the early stages in the creation of Ambric, Inc. - a new company working on a programmable digital IC platform. He is recognized as an expert in modeling. This expert has excellent verbal and communication skills; he has given several keynote talks at conferences, has been active in conference and technical program committees and has been a panelist at several conferences and meetings.

• Analog & Mixed-Signal ICs
• Mixed-Signal and Mixed-Technology Modeling
• Mixed-Signal Behavioral and Circuit Simulation
• Strategic Marketing
• EDA Business Development
• Software Development

1153
This expert is an Analog/RF integrated circuit designer with background in Bipolar (SiGe), BICMOS, SOI, CMOS and GaAs high speed processes. Expert in PLL, DLL, and VCO circuits. Worked on various clock and data recovery circuits, and synthesizers beyond 20 GHz. Developed 40 Gb/s, 10 Gb/s and 2.5Gb/s SONET data communications ICs. Several years of work in the design of high-speed data converters, RFICs and MMICs. Strong DSP background and expertise in high resolution sigma-delta converters. Recent work on SOS and photonics. Participated in several start-ups from the beginning, including recruitment and setting up the design tools. Expert witness experience at the ITC.

• Phase Locked Loop (PLL) and Delay Locked Loop (DLL)
• Analog Integrated Circuit (IC)
• Mixed Signal High Speed Design
• Digital Signal Processing
• Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO)
• Data Conversion (ADC, DAC)
• Data Transmission and Recovery
• Radio Frequency (RFIC, MMIC)

1170
This expert has over thirty-five years of industry experience in the technical development of DRAM and microprocessor technology. He has provided consulting services to companies requiring assistance in difficult technology migration and circuit designs. He has also provided expert witness services, for which he has developed reports to help clarify the technical issues, test the validity of intellectual property and demonstrate if infringement exists. His litigation experiences include testifying in court and in depositions concerning various memory and microprocessor technology patents. His consulting clients include Intel, Hewlet Packard, LGE, ST Microelectronics, Samsung, Infineon, IBM and Hynix.

• Chip Set Architecture & Implementation
• DRAM Technology
• Integrated Circuit Architecture
• Integrated Circuit Development
• Microprocessor Technology
• Program Investment Analysis
• Project Audits
• Project/Program Management
• Semiconductor Memory

1172
This expert has over 30 years of experience in computer design and architecture. Within his field he is the holder of dozens of patents, is extensively published, and is highly recognized and awarded for his contributions. In addition to his direct industry experience, this expert has over 15 years experience as a consultant and litigation support expert.

• Computer design and architecture
• Fault tolerant computing
• CPU, cache and memory design
• I/O and storage subsystems
• High speed networks
• Performance evaluation
• Hardware testing
• Patents and intellectual property

1176
This expert has over 35-years of electronics engineering and engineering management experience, including 28-years in Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) product development and product management with 4 patents. He has worked for major manufacturers of integrated circuits and integrated circuits testing equipment. His digital design experience ranges from concept to printed circuit board, including standard and custom IC Verilog-based designs. His ATE experience ranges from ATE target-device test applications to throughput engineering and training. He has expertise and is able to serve as an expert witness in the following: Automatic Test Equipment (ATE), Custom IC Design, Digital Design, Mechanical Design, Product Development, Product Management Engineering, Product Marketing, and System Design.

• Automatic Test Equipment (ATE)
• Custom IC design
• Digital design
• Mechanical design
• Product development
• Product management engineering Product marketing System design

1196
Twenty-seven years with primary focus on PC and embedded systems product development. Specialized skills in operating systems and system software, cross-platform system software, computer platform and microprocessor architecture, consumer electronics, and project management/planning. Significant experience leading product development teams, as a consultant, and as an expert witness in support of technical litigation.

• Operating Systems
• Embedded Systems
• Computer System Architecture
• Microprocessor Architecture
• Software Design and Development
• Non-Volatile (Flash) Memory
• Power Management
• Wireless Networking

1198
This expert has more than 30 years of experience as an academic, industry practitioner and litigation support and expert witness. His experience includes management, design, and development in telecommunications, signal processing systems, modem development and integrated circuit development. Expertise encompasses error-correcting codes, telecommunications, digital signal processing (both algorithms and implementation), digital systems design, communications theory, integrated circuit design, and CAD. In addition, this expert is the recipient of patents and awards for his efforts in the fields of communications and VLSI circuits. He also provides support for technical patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation in the areas of communications, modems, digital signal processing (DSP), digital video and audio, and error correcting codes. He has been an expert witness on several occasions, and has been deposed and has testified at arbitration, bench trial, and at Markman hearings.

• Adaptive Equalization
• Analog to Digital Conversion
• Communications Theory
• Digital Signal Processing
• Digital System Design
• Error Correcting Codes
• Integrated Circuit Development
• Litigation Support
• Modem Theory
• Telecommunications
• Data Compression

1264
Expert has over 35 years of experience in the semiconductor memory industry. He has worked extensively on both IC and system-level design projects. Expert`s products include many innovations and industry firsts. In recent years, Expert has supported several litigation actions as an Expert Witness, working with both plaintiff and defendant attorneys in cases involving intellectual property disputes. In that capacity, Expert has conducted prior-art research, written (and withstood deposition on) several expert reports, and has also testified in various trial venues, including one civil case, several ITC cases, and many actions in Federal District Courts. Expert holds multiple patents in his field.

• Cache Memory
• Circuit Design
• EEPROM
• Flash Memory
• ROM
• Semiconductor Memory Architecture
• Semiconductor Memory Technology
• SRAM & DRAM Technology

1268
Expert has over 30 years of industry and academic experience. His background includes design experience to a variety of national and international industries dealing with microelectronics and computer design. He was a Principal investigator on research projects dealing with automated Boolean minimization, high-speed computer arithmetic, bit-serial processing, special-purpose VLSI architectures, marine navigation systems, and computer-aided design of digital systems Expert has worked on many patent litigations and has been deposed and testified at trail. He is a patent holder with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.

• Microprocessor/Microcomputer Design and Application
• Computer-Aided Design
• Computer Architecture
• Digital Systems Design and Synthesis
• Digital Communications
• Electronic Circuit Design
• Semiconductor Manufacture
• Technology Maturation and Commercialization

1272
Expert has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and has over 30 years of industry and academic experience. He is a technology leader in mechanical CAD, computer graphics and visualization, having played key roles in the development of many highly regarded technologies and products during his career. He has participated in SIGGRAPH as a committee member. He is adept at technology investigations and engineering analysis. He has broader expertise in industrial design, image processing and algebraic computing. He is able to serve as an expert witness in the following: Computer Graphics, Scientific/Medical Visualization, Mechanical CAD, Industrial Design, Algebraic Computing, and Image Processing.

• Computer Graphics
• Scientific/Medical Visualization
• Mechanical CAD
• Industrial Design
• Algebraic Computing
• Image Processing

1280
Expert has over thirty years of experience in electrical engineering, optical engineering, and metrology engineering. His activity has included designing and developing RF and microwave products for clients. Products designed include 5.8GHz short-range radar transceivers, 2.4GHz wireless video devices, GSM and DCS cellular telephone RF front-end, 900 and 2.4GHz high-dynamic range receivers for WAN applications, 900 MHz automatic meter reading transmitters, receivers, and transceivers, 400MHz short-range transmitters and receivers for keyless entry and property location, and wide variety of smaller RF design projects including expert witness assignments. Expert holds two patents is published and has prior expert witness experience.

• Radio frequency engineering
• Microwave engineering
• Analog engineering
• Power conversion engineering
• Communications systems eng.
• Product development
• Circuit board and box design
• Test and measure

1286
Expert has over 15 years of industrial experience in the development of military and commercial digital systems, in particular for airborne systems and in high-resolution computer graphics. He holds a Ph.D. is a patent holder and has prior expert witness experience.

• Computer Architecture
• RISC Computers
• Computer Graphics (H/W and S/W)
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Interconnection Networks
• Scheduling and Load Balancing
• Algorithms
• Embedded Systems

1312
Expert has over thirty years of technical and managerial experience in Engineering, Research and Development, Product, Marketing, Business Development, Operation, Supply Chain and Manufacturing Management for Semiconductor Devices and Electronic Systems. Credited for the creations of, first in its class, products such as Novus Calculators, Atari Video Games, and Amiga Multimedia Computers. Co-Founded two leading product companies with ACC Microelectronics famous for its PC Single-Chip Solutions and Auctor well known for its handheld and portable devices. Consulted three high-tech start-up companies in the Silicon Valley and coached the management on the sub-micron chip developments for Network Switch, 10-Gbits Ethernet, and Voice Processing. Supported litigations in patent infringements, contract disputes, and reverse engineering. Performed the prior-art analysis and IP validations. Developed extensive business knowledge and relationship in the Asia-Pac and Greater China Regions. The latest personal professional attentions have been focused on IP development and application, SOC (System-On-Chip) design, and Semiconductor Nano-Technology deployment.

• Semiconductor Devices Technology
• ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Design
• ASSP (Application Specific Standard
• Product) Architecture
• Chip (also known as Integrated Circuit) Design Platform and Tool
• Chip Package and Test Development
• IP (Intellectual Property) Development and Validation
• PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Design
• Personal Computing System
• Video Game System
• Graphic and Display Engine
• Voice and Audio Processor
• Multimedia Technology
• Power Management Technology
• Product Life Cycle Management
• Off Shore Outsourcing Operation

1318
Expert has over 25-years of senior engineering management experience involved in the design and development of complex Integrated Circuits. He has held various high level engineering and operations positions with major high technology companies. His experience includes the delivery of system level solutions to the marketplace, and product experience with microprocessors, ASIC and custom Integrated Circuits technology. He is a patent holder and has prior litigation experience.

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Expert has over 30 years of industry and academic experience, an electronics engineer who transitioned to software development early in his career. He is a skilled software technology innovator with an extensive background in both systems and applications, and has created and used many diverse technologies and products. Expert is adept at technology investigations, engineering management and technical marketing. He has broad expertise in best practices for software development, system software, Internet solutions, hardware/software integration, object-oriented systems, computer aided design and software intellectual property. He is founder of a software tools company that has filed ten patent applications, and has developed an artificial personality enhancement for AI systems, marketed by another company he founded. As a consultant, Expert acted as interim CTO or VP Engineering for a number of startup companies, acted as an expert witness in software litigation, performed technical due diligence for venture capital firms and private investors, and has developed for and/or managed numerous software projects.

• Internet software
• Unix and Linux
• C, C++, Visual Basic
• Software tools
• Java and Enterprise Java (J2EE)
• Open source software
• Web Services
• Development methodology
• Internationalization
• CAD
• Hardware/software integration
• Online communities
• Real-time systems
• Assembly Languages
• Computer graphic

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Expert has received a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from M.I.T., a M.S. in Applied Mechanics and Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickenson University. He has worked on the stress analysis of aircraft and nuclear reactor control drive mechanisms, the mechanical design and development and manufacturing of communications satellites, emergency power sources for telephone sites, the development of integrated circuit mask making equipment such as the Electron Beam Exposure System (EBES), the packaging of integrated circuit`s (IC`s), the physical design of and assembly processes for LED`s and LASERS and electronic subsystems such as optical data links, the development and introduction to manufacture of Direct Chip Attach (DCA) technology for assembling flip chip die onto organic printed circuit boards , the assembly and packaging technology for virtual displays, and the development of embedded passive design methodology and technology for RF Modules. He is the author of 45 technical publications/talks including contributing chapter author for two texts and has been awarded 29 patents. He has litigation support experience.

• Semiconductor Packaging Design and Assembly Processes
• Optoelectronic and MEM`s Package Design and Assembly Processes
• Electronic System Physical Design
• Reliability Analysis and Evaluation
• Stress Analysis
• Thermal Analysis
• Supply Chain Management