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

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Expert has over 40 years of experience in the design of semiconductor products and has a Ph.D. in Computers and Communications. He has more than 10 patents in the areas of CMOS design, cryogenic memory, and memory addressing. He has over 25 engagements as a semiconductor expert witness. His notable career includes early work in the technical areas of color television, moving to solid state electronics, LEDs and photodiodes, developing major CMOS product lines, managing microprocessor business divisions, and new processors for mainframe computers. His later career history includes business and technical management for large and small corporations in the fields of microcontrollers, ASIC and RISC systems. Currently an independent consultant, he works with clients to assist their development, analysis, and launch of new semiconductor products. He has been heavily involved in advanced technology development, operations, applications, process, packaging, marketing and business planning across many different product lines.

• Intellectual Property Research
• Patent Analysis and Evaluation
• Prior Art Search
• Expert Witness
• Litigation Damage Analysis
• ITC Action Support
• Semiconductor Memory
• Microcontroller Technology
• Microprocessor Technology
• Embedded Processors
• RISC Processors
• Digital Circuits
• Analog Circuits
• ASIC
• IP Macros
• Megacells
• DRAM, SRAM. Flash, EEPROM
• IC Packaging
• Semiconductor Process
• Plasma Etch and CVD

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

1021
Expert is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director, Microelectronics Research Center, at a major University. He is also the Director at one of three centers in the US to develop a replacement for MOSFETs. As a Member of the Technical Staff, Corporate Research, Development and Engineering of Texas Instruments Incorporated, he worked on polysilicon transistors and dynamic random access trench memory cells used by Texas Instruments in the world`s first 4Megabit DRAM. He has over 650 archival refereed publications/talks, 7 books/chapters, and 26 U.S. patents. He has supervised over 50 Ph.D. and 60 MS students. He is currently active in the areas of ultra high vacuum chemical vapor deposition for silicon-germanium-carbon heterostructure MOSFETs, nanoparticle flash memories and nanostructures. He is also interested in the areas of ultra-shallow junction technology and semiconductor device modeling. He is an experienced expert witness and has been deposed and testified.

• MOSFET Technology
• Nanostructures
• Memory Cell Design
• DRAM Technology
• Semiconductor Device Modeling
• Thin Film Technology
• Ion Implantation Technology
• Semiconductor Design
• Semiconductor Fabrication

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

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

1080
Expert has over 30 years of leadership experience in computer storage system development, including rigid disk drives and magneto optical storage devices. Skills include in-depth understanding of all aspects of magnetic recording technology and storage system design. He is also an experienced university instructor with a proven success in technology introduction. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Advanced Magnetic Recording Systems
• Magnetic Materials
• Magnetic Recording Systems & Architecture
• Magnetic Storage Systems
• Materials Science
• Rigid Disk Drive Technology
• Winchester Disk Drive Technology
• Optical and Magneto Optical Disk Drive Technology

1086
Over twenty years of industry experience engineering and technical marketing management. The expert is considered a visionary technology spokesman in the data storage industry having brought many disk drive products to market successfully. He is skilled in all aspects of recording head and media design, qualification, drive integration, drive troubleshooting and quality and cost control considerations of disk drive manufacturing. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Advanced Magnetic Recording Systems
• Disk Drive Engineering
• Disk Drive Integration
• Disk Drive Media Design
• Disk Drive Recording Head Design
• Hard Disk Electro-Mechanical Design
• Magnetic Recording Systems & Architecture

1114
Expert has over twenty years of experience developing complex semiconductor circuits in the microprocessor, computing systems and telecommunications fields. He has spent most of his career at early stage/start-up high technology companies building teams, developing architecture and managing the intricacies of building a company from nothing more than an idea. Avoiding patent infringement and building patent portfolios have been key elements of the companies for which he has worked. He has expert witness experience.

• Microprocessor Architecture
• Multiprocessing Computing Systems
• Cache and Memory Subsystems
• Digital CMOS Circuits
• IO Channels
• High Pin Count/High Complexity ICs/ASICs
• Rapid IO, Fibre Channel, Infiniband and HyperTransport Busses
• SONET Communications Devices
• Optical Communications Devices
• Switching Architectures
• CMOS Circuit Artwork
• IC/System Interconnect Busses
• MEMs devices

1136
This expert has been at the forefront of disk drive design for over 40 years. He is extensively published in his field as well as holding numerous patents. In addition to his direct experience, he has been working as a consultant and litigation support expert for over 30 years.

• Disk Drive Design
• Control System Design
• Analog/Digital Circuit Design
• System Interface Design
• Firmware development for electromechanical device control
• Software development for device attachment to system
• Magnetic Recording Technology
• ATM/Frame Relay/IP Network Product Design
• Operations Management
• Management Systems (ERP, MRP)
• Quality Assurance

1137
This expert is an active participant in and contributor to T10 (SCSI) standards committee since early 1980`s. Technical editor of SVP, the protocol for using SCSI over Infiniband and the VI Architecture. Active participant in and contributor to T11 (Fibre Channel) standards committee since 1995. Author of several definitive performance studies using a custom discrete event simulation model, examining both FC-AL and alternate loop architectures. He is knowledgeable of essentially all storage device interfaces in use or proposed for at least the last ten years. Primary architect of Digital Equipment`s DSA (Digital Storage Architecture) storage device protocols. Technical lead for first generation DLT tape drive controller.

• Input/Output Interfaces
• Storage Devices,
• Computer Peripherals
• Storage Architecture

1144
This expert is a well-recognized expert in mechanical engineering, reliability and tribology of various machines and mechanisms, particularly in the area of magnetic disk drives.

• Tribology
• Mechanical Reliability
• Disk Drive Test Equipment
• Magnetic Disk Drives
• Disk Drive Qualification Testing

1149
This expert has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor memory design field. In addition to his direct industry experience, this expert has worked as a consultant and litigation support expert for over 20 years.

• Semiconductor Memory Device Design
• DRAM/SRAM/VRAM
• ASIC Design
• Analog/Digital design
• Radiation Hardening (Rad-Hard) Technology
• MOSFET Technology
• CMOS Technology

1155
This expert has been applying the systems approach to information systems development since 1980. During this time, he has worked on projects involving telecommunications and digital signal processing, embedded systems, and software.

• Software Development
• Software Analysis
• Software Design
• Software Implementation
• Computer Systems
• Data Compression and Conversion
• Telecommunications Systems Development
• Digital Signal Processing Algorithms
• Voice over Internet Protocol
• XDSL
• Modems

1158
This expert is an associate Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College and author of four textbooks in the fields of CMOS VLSI design and computer architecture. He has professional and consulting experience in the area of VLSI design at Intel, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and numerous smaller companies. IN addition to being extensively published in his field, he also holds numerous field related patents.

• High-speed CMOS VLSI Design
• Clocking
• Domino Circuits
• Computer Arithmetic
• Flip-flops and Latches
• Adders, Multipliers, Shifters, Dividers
• Computer Architecture

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

1174
This expert has been working at the forefront of optoelectronics for over 40 years. He was employed as an optical systems engineer at the Apparatus Division of the Eastman Kodak Company. In that position he was responsible for carrying out performance analyses and testing of high-resolution optical systems. He then moved to the Kodak Research Laboratories where he was technical group leader for the development of high-density optical recording systems and materials. He became head of the Systems Technology Laboratory, Physics Division, Kodak Research Laboratories in 1984. In 1987 this expert became Technical Assistant to the Director of Research and Development, Kodak Mass Memory Division. His current research interests are in the areas of second harmonic generation in non-linear waveguides, laser diode-to-waveguide coupling, external cavity laser diodes, optical data storage and modulation/error-control coding techniques used in digital data storage applications. This expert holds 29 issued patents (21 in the field of optical recording). He has authored, or co-authored, 25 technical papers, one book chapter, given over 25 oral presentations (about half of them invited) at technical symposia/seminars and has taught short courses on the subjects of error-correction codes, optical recording and digital information storage and retrieval for the Optical Society of America, CEI Europe-Elsevier and The University Consortium for Continuing Education.

• Optical data storage systems (heads and read signal generation)
• Optical storage materials and medium (disc) design
• Diode laser characterization
• Modulation for data storage
• Error correction and detection
• Data formats
• Recovered data reliability
• Compact Disc & DVD
• Interaction of light with nano-apertures

1186
This expert has over 40 years of experience in storage technology. He is well published and holds numerous patents in his field.

• Magnetic and Optical Storage Technology Architecture, Design and Production Implementation.
• Novel Deployable RAID System and JBOD Disk Array design implementation.
• Backup software analysis for implementing encryption technology used in portable storage products.
• Development of Convergence Technology products (Media Players) for television, stereo and automobile.
• International technology presentations and training (Korea, Taiwan, Japan).
• Management and guidance of large and small technical organizations

1190
This expert has over 30 years of experience in information systems and technology management. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science, is a professor at a major research university, and has a long career as a consultant and litigation support expert.

• Database
• E-commerce
• Distributed systems
• Security
• Electronic voting
• Internet

1360
Expert has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard. Expert is published and has prior litigation support experience.

• Device Physics
• Flat Panel Display Technology
• High Temperature Semiconductor Technology
• Magnetic Semiconductor Technology
• Material Sciences
• Polymer Chemistry
• Thin Film Materials Technology
• Tribology

1365
Originally trained as an earth scientist, with a specialization in quantitative fluid dynamics, Expert developed an early understanding of the potential for haptic computer interfaces through his efforts at producing 3D computer graphics. Expert has led the technical development of haptic orbs through three generations of prototyping, leading to the current commercial-ready device. His activities have included extensive software development for interface protocols and application programs, as well as detailed spec development of haptic orb electronics, design, ergonomic, and mechanical features. Expert has prior litigation experience.

• Haptics
• 3D Controllers
• 3D Computer Graphics
• Haptic Electronics, Design, Ergonomic and Mechanical features.
• Earth Sciences
• Hydrology

1367
Expert provides electronic systems, security, and computer consulting services specializing in tokens (e.g. smart cards, associated reader/writers, and procedures). Expert draws upon experience going back to 1985 when tokens such as passive/credit cards and smart cards became popular means of payment mechanisms. In addition, Expert provides services in market research in the area of smart cards and readers, represents client at smart card standards meetings and industry conventions as requested, conducts standards and patent research and technology assessment, provides professional training, and performs literature and document search and procurement services. Expert has prior litigation support experience.

• Identification Card Security (RSA, DES, etc. - Encryption/Decryption)
• Identification Card Readers and Lock Systems (Smart Cards, Magnetic Stripe Cards - i.e. ATM/Debit/Credit/SV Cards)
• Point of Sale Token
• System/Procedures
• Identification Card Technology Standards/Specifications/Architectures (ISO 7810)
• Smart Card Technology Standards/Specifications/Architectures (ISO/IEC 7816, EMV `96, PC/SC Workgroup, etc)
• Contact and Non-Contact Smart Cards
• QA and Self Test
• A/D Converters
• Data Storage Systems
• Hardware/Software in Electronic Systems
• Technology Assessment
• Memory Systems and Processors (On-Chip Processors, RAM, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, CCDs, Magnetic Bubbles, Discs, Interface Control)
• Microcomputer Access Card Systems and Card Programming
• Fast Front-End Technology
• Technology Assessment

1374
Expert is a consultant who specialized in head media tribology evaluation and certification. Experience includes key trouble-shooter on mechanical and tribological related problems on new technologies and products. Invented two major solutions to problems for which patents have applied: Novel technique to minimize head media damage due to shock and miniature rotational shock sensor that eliminates loss of data due to shock while recording. His professional duties also included analysis of contaminant-related drive failures. He established contamination specifications for new products, as well as, functional and reliability testing for newly developed and released products and process quality assurance for pilot line manufacturing for a major hard drive maker.

• Hard Disk Mechanical Engineering
• Hard Disk Media Reliability
• Hard Disk Tribology
• Hard Disk Fluid Bearing Spindles
• Hard Disk Fluid Bearing Actuators
• Hard Disk Shock Sensors
• Product Development
• Quality Control Systems