Hardware Design Expert Witnesses
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Hardware design expert witness candidates typically have expertise and backgrounds in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, product design, computer hardware, and/or computer science.
A hardware design engineer understands hardware components, such as a printed circuit board and integrated circuit, created for computers and other machines like a medical device. An electronic system may include an embedded system, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) coded in a hardware description language (such as Verilog or VHDL), and of course software. Product design engineers need to understand the interconnection between hardware and software; the embedded systems engineering industry increasingly solicits software engineers with a background in hardware design.
Often, matters requiring hardware design expert witness services involve intellectual property, such as patent infringement litigation, inter partes review or trade secret disputes. A forensic expert can reverse engineer components to prove (or disprove) intellectual property infringement or theft. A hardware design expert could also be called in on breach of contract disputes to consult on technical issues, which could require forensic engineering work. A hardware design expert witness might also provide testimony in a torts matter like personal injury or a product liability case involving the failure analysis of consumer electronics or a medical device.
Litigation support by a hardware design expert witness could include reverse engineering, expert reports, expert opinion, and expert testimony at a trial. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a testifying expert with prior expert witness experience. An expert witness needs to not only have expertise, an engineering expert witness must possess the ability to explain technology to lay people. In addition, clients may seek an industry expert for pre-litigation consulting work.
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Hardware Design Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Hardware Design experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Hardware Design landscape.
Expert Witness #121559
This expert holds a Ph.D. in electronics engineering and control systems and has a very strong background in embedded systems, both hardware and software, which is what the IoT is built upon. This expert has been working on and designing microcontroller based systems for many years. This expert has design experience in digital, analog and RF electronic hardware and understands the hardware aspects of IoT based system. This expert has also designed and developed the software to run many embedded systems, including systems that tied into the internet. This expert is working with the Air Force researching, designing and developing the control of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or drones). This project involves going from sensor inputs to control of the UAV and coordinating control over wireless networks between multiple UAVs and a ground station. Additionally, this expert is working on a control system for a wheelchair to make it possible for quadriplegics to drive and control the wheelchair through head movement controls. This project involves electronic hardware design of the system, and all the software design and development to go from sensor inputs to control of the chair. The system uses wireless network interfaces to get sensor data from the head to a computer control system and tie in remote computer monitoring. This expert has extensive litigation experience including multiple depositions and trial testimony.
Start Hardware Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #217752
This expert brings to the table many years as a working engineer designing, among other related products, antennas and antenna arrays, multi-antenna backhaul radios and their associated hardware and firmware. This includes developing high bandwidth signal processing for advanced packet radio networks, including RF, analog, digital, and microcontroller support circuits. This expert’s expertise spans analog, digital, and RF circuit and filter design, antenna design, sampling, complex modulation and demodulation, signal processing, microcontrollers, multiprocessing, firmware, digital interfaces, C, Verilog, air protocol design, wireless networking, security and authentication, asset tracking, real time location, multipath processing, signal processing, homologation, regulatory agency and standards issues. This expert’s areas of technical proficiency include wireless data, voice and video, WLAN, WWAN, WiMax, Cellular, Wi-Fi including 802.11a/b/g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 3G, 4G, LTE, interference management, MIMO, OFDM, Space-time processing, MMSE, Single Carrier, SC-FDE, spatial multiplexing, beamforming MU-MIMO, ARQ, transmit precoding, antennas, modulations (QAM, FSK, PSK, PPM, PCM, etc.), and other narrowband and spread spectrum technologies (FH, DSSS, CDMA, UWB), FEC, interleaving, wireless sensor networks, RFID (passive, BAP, Active, UHF, HF, and NFC), RTLS and asset tracking. This expert has worked on all forms of analog, digital, and RF hardware designs for communications systems and general circuits from baseband to 7 GHz operation and millimeter wave design issues. This expert has designed antennas, developed innovative physical layer and MAC layer designs, worked on five ASICs, built microcontroller and microprocessor based systems, wrote firmware, modeled in MATLAB, did ASIC system engineering, designed RF channel probes for analyzing multipath, MIMO signal processing, millimeter wave systems, designed protocols, ran standards groups, worked with regulatory agencies, set up long range terrestrial radio installations, developed entire systems flow and worked closely with customers to solve process and implementation problems, generate sales, understand markets, help them through pilot programs to get to sales, and overcome technical hurdles to get to a sellable position.
This expert has worked with the FCC, ETSI, IC, Anatel and MIC in developing rules for RFID, WLAN, Radar compatibility, and fixed radio operation. This expert has participated in 802.11 working groups the RFID Gen2 working group, participated in several other groups including Data Protection, ISO 18000-6, and Item Level tagging technology group. This expert is the named inventor on nearly one dozen patents including one for an Antenna for a backscatter-based RFID transponder. This expert’s expert witness experience includes more than 30 cases split across plaintiff and defendant, infringement, invalidity, rebuttals, claim construction, IPRs (petitioner and owner), and licensing disputes. This expert has been deposed 7 times, and has been prepped for trial 3 times.
Start Hardware Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #223021
This expert has designed ASICs, FPGAs, and PC boards for RISC-based parallel processor systems, vector supercomputers, laser printers, hardware emulators, network switches and routers, and various real-time systems. In addition to technical work, this expert provides technical consulting and serves as an expert witness for technical litigation providing experience in reverse engineering hardware and software, analyzing and interpreting patents and trade secrets, and testifying at depositions and trials.
This expert has written technical papers on hardware and software design methods, and has taught courses on Verilog, ASIC, and FPGA design at engineering conferences throughout the world. This expert holds 22 patent and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. This expert is also the president of a leading provider of software forensics tools for litigation. This expert is certified in the use of CodeSuite® and has a master's degree and two bachelor's degrees.
This expert worked on touch sensitive user interface technology in a high profile case. This expert is also well versed in power constraints generally. This expert has extensive litigation experience having been deposed at least a dozen times and testified at trial.
Start Hardware Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #226812
This expert holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and has extensive experience developing Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), semiconductor memories (DRAM and variety of other types), and Programmable Logic (FPGA and PLD) products used in the design of digital computer and telecom systems. This expert has developed Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software products based on behavioral (C, Verilog and VHDL) synthesis and ASIC/FPGA placement-route (physical design). This expert created an engineering design methodology and directed a world-wide operation that released over 3000 gate array (ASIC) designs. This expert was a key contributor in development of various memory (DRAM, SRAM, & serial memory) and logic products. Several patents in semiconductor processing and device structures and ?C to RLT? software compiler technology was issued along with multiple Technical Disclosure Bulletins. This expert?s experience includes various types of re-configurable (Field Programmable Gate Array) logic hardware & software products.
This expert created an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design methodology many years ago that incorporated scan test FlipFlops on IO cells that can be used to test internal operations of ICs. This ASIC design methodology was used to create over 3,000 IC designs, a few of which employed the expensive ?scan-test? capability.
This expert?s numerous expert reports and depositions in IC-related patent litigation cases have resulted in favorable settlements, and this expert has testified in court on IC cases as well. This expert has acquired extensive prior art documents and products over years in the industry. This expert has also provided technical background at the patent office during Re-Examination reviews and at court tutorials.
Start Hardware Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #217662
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience including several streaming technologies cases. This expert has extensive experience in the design and development of electronic systems comprising software, hardware and integrated circuits. This expert has consulted in the fields of digital signal processing, including streaming media/data, video processing technology, video and audio compression and decompression, FPGA system design, integrated circuit design, signal integrity, networking, fiber optic transmission, high-speed memory controller design, image processing and computer graphics. This expert also has extensive experience in the design and development of software systems and hardware/software co-design. This expert has developed software systems ranging from apps on smartphones to electronic design tools, and has extensive experience with design tools in developing commercial electronic products.
This expert has worked with FPGA technology to develop commercial products with high performance requirements, including high-performance memory controllers, state machines, and memory-based recording logic analyzers. This expert’s expertise also includes signal integrity at the IC package, board, backplane and cable level, and has served on multiple standards committees in the development of serial and parallel interface standards for the networking industry. This expert has been responsible for turnkey electronic product design and development for clients.
Start Hardware Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #212686
This expert has many years of experience in software and hardware development for embedded systems, and has served as an Expert Witness. This expert has hands-on experience developing software on portable wireless communications devices, including the development of over 30 smartphone applications, generating over 50 million user installs. This expert has worked on numerous embedded systems projects which have included wireless communications, including game consoles, handheld gaming devices, first generation (J2ME/Brew) "feature" phones, present day smartphone devices and browser-based online games. As an expert in over 20 computer software languages, including assembly language [TMS1000, AMI S2000, 6502, 65816, 6800, Z80, 8080, etc], C, C++, Java, Javascript, Objective C, Lingo, Swift, and others, this expert has performed extensive source code analysis and reverse engineering from object code to source code. This expert has development experience with embedded systems utilizing ROM-based software. As an early pioneer in the handheld electronic toy and video game industries, this expert designed software on systems where the delivery mechanism was ROM-based cartridges. This expert also has strong knowledge of microprocessor and microcontroller architectures used in embedded systems, having designed the hardware and software of early microcontroller-based handheld electronic products. This expert designed, developed and coded one of the earliest tokenized interpretive languages for a commercially released software product. The architecture of the language was based on processor-independent, bytecode "object code," which was compiled on-the-fly during program design and interpreted in real-time by an assembly language-based virtual machine. The language was highly optimized, allowing for the development of real-time, graphic-intensive applications executing at 15 frames per second (on 8-bit hardware). This expert has been retained as an expert and accepted by the court in over 25 patent infringement cases, on both the plaintiff and defendant sides. This expert has written numerous reports on patent infringement and non-infringement, validity/invalidity and claim construction, been deposed over 25 times and has testified in court or at an arbitration hearing seven times. Outside of this expert's expertise in video games, this expert has worked on numerous other cases involving software development for general applications, including image processing, vector graphics, virtual reality, embedded control systems for location-based amusement machines, and a handheld language translator.
Start Hardware Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #250138
Founder and President of an independent financial technologies consultancy, this expert has designed and managed major management consulting and technology projects for 58 major domestic and foreign banks and Wall Street firms, including the design, purchase, and installation of more than $2.4 billion worth of telecommunications, computer technology, software and specialized hardware. This expert works with the entire spectrum of modern financial services technology, including trading telecommunications and computers, LAN/WAN design, communications cabling, wireless communications, front and back office financial processing systems, security software and devices, and special hardware and software projects of all types. This expert serves as an Expert Witness in telecom and computer matters in state and federal courts, and also does General Management Consulting Engagements, Market Research and Strategic Planning. This expert has both courtroom and deposition experience. A respected designer of original computer hardware and software for the financial services industry, this expert is the inventor of a Wireless Integrated Trading System, a 20Mb/s bandwidth infrared system used for trading room disaster recovery; an electronic office access system, installed in major office buildings nationwide; and a microprocessor system for measuring productivity in 'moving line' situations, installed at shuttle operations at a major airport and various bank branches. This expert completed the systems design and programming of an online foreign exchange trading system for a hedge fund. This expert studied Computer Science, Business Administration, and Electronics Engineering. This expert writes for technical media, and is the author of several books on banking, computers and telecommunications, as well as many articles in the financial press. This expert is a Member of IEEE, AIIE, ASM, and EFTA.
Start Hardware Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #263714
This expert holds an MS in Engineering and serves as President and CTO for a highly sought-after consultancy. This expert specializes in Electronic Imaging Systems, Electronic & Wireless Transfer Systems, Hardware & Software Development, and Product Development & Enhancements.
This expert is very familiar with the systems used for the capture and transfer of video/images and their wireless transfer. This expert served in several technical and management roles for a public company including Research Scientist, Chief Engineer, and Program Manager all dealing with digital imaging and Advanced Digital Camera operations. As such, this expert was hands-on with efforts regarding:
- defining, and performing R&D projects focused on hybrid imaging systems- the design and programming of DSP-based image processing solutions requiring multiple DSPs- leading a team of engineers that developed a USB digital video camera. This video camera was capable of streaming video at one (lower) resolution, while also supporting the transfer of a second (higher) resolution image under the control of the host computer. This expert has several patents as a result of the development of this product. This expert later led a digital camera advanced development group that deployed numerous new product features including simultaneous (low res) video preview, compression and (hi res) capture to flash memory storage.Additionally, this expert has the hardware and software expertise to work with a legal team to devise and direct reverse engineering experiments and efforts directed to assessment of infringement. This expert is also familiar with the patent process, claims language and patents generally.
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