Integrated Circuit Expert Witnesses
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Integrated circuit expert witness candidates typically have advanced degrees, may be licensed professional engineers, and have extensive experience in semiconductor technology, semiconductor manufacturing, and/or electrical engineering. An integrated circuit expert witness must have a deep understanding not only of IC technology, but also of the semiconductor industry, market share and the developing technologies of the industry’s leading players.
Basic information on integrated circuit technology and semiconductor manufacturing is available through a chip market report from an industry analysis provider. But a semiconductor expert witness must have a deeper understanding of the market, its history, the progression of the technology and often an understanding of which competitors were working on various designs at different points of time during the initial development stage.
An expert witness in the integrated circuit field will typically provide his or her expertise in intellectual property matters, such as a patent litigation in the federal court. It could be a patent infringement case or trade secrets matter in the District Court, an Inter Partes Review (IPR) in the PTAB (where the only expert testimony is through a deposition), or a patent case or proceeding in the International Trade Commission (ITC). Less frequently, an electrical engineer might provide testimony in a torts matter like a product liability case involving the failure analysis of a consumer electronics or medical device.
While many integrated circuit consultants have forensic engineering expertise, the expert witness carries the additional responsibility of providing testimony before the court, in a manner whereby lay people (the judge and jurors) can understand the technical evidence.
A testifying expert, or expert witness, is generally the only one in the court who is allowed to provide testimony as to his or her opinion because it is an expert opinion. Regardless of whether this takes the form of testimony in a deposition or trial, or in expert reports, the engineering component will provide credibility to his or her analysis and allow the jury to consider the expert’s opinion with the weight it deserves. Cahn Litigation has completed numerous searches for an expert witness in the integrated circuit space, providing candidates for each case to the specifications provided by the attorney in charge.
Whether the case involves application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology, circuit simulation, semiconductor device manufacturing, analog integrated circuits, or IC design, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn an expert witness search around quickly and provide the right balance of expertise and testimony to support each unique project and its nuances.
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Integrated Circuit Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Integrated Circuit experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Integrated Circuit landscape.
Expert Witness #244900
This expert has worked with PMOS, NMOS, and CMOS process technologies throughout this expert's career, including many years in the semiconductor industry. Following the stint in industry, this expert joined the Electrical Engineering Department at a University where this expert teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in semiconductor/integrated circuit design and test technology, electronic devices and circuits, and VLSI technology. At a major technology company, this expert contributed to a number of product technology programs including the 4K DRAM, CCDs, NMOS and CMOS process development and non-volatile memories (DIFMOS), one of the first commercial EEPROM devices. In addition, this expert is the inventor or co-inventor of fourteen patents in semiconductor memory circuits and related fields. A silicon device expert with specific emphasis on process, device design, device characteristics and the use of the devices within the integrated circuit memories, this expert's consulting activities include serving as an expert witness in the fields of integrated circuit and transistor technology, and in areas dealing with electrical and electronic product design and electrical safety. This expert has published a variety of technical papers on subjects ranging from floating-gate nonvolatile memories to digital converters to numerical analysis of storage times of DRAM cells incorporating ultrathin dielectrics. This expert holds thirteen patents in the field of semiconductor devices, processes and circuits, is an IEEE Senior Member and has extensive expert witness experience providing deposition and testimony in various courts for over one hundred cases.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #123119
This expert holds B.S., M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering. This expert has worked on the design of bipolar differential amplifiers, as well as in the areas of custom IC design, software compatible gate array design, one- and two-dimensional device modeling, circuit modeling, and double level metal process development. This expert was Manager of a Signal Processing Design and Test Department, responsible for the design and test of high performance VLSI/VHSIC CMOS and BIMOS digital and analog ICs, the development of supporting design and test methodologies and CAD tools, functional and parametric test, and the development of high performance and high resolution DSP and oversampled systems.
This expert is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the High Performance VLSI/IC Design and Analysis Laboratory at a major university. This expert’s current research and teaching interests include:
On-Chip Interconnect, Power, and Substrate Coupling Noise
High Performance Digital and Analog Integrated Circuit Design
Three-Dimensional Integrated Design Methodologies, Algorithms, and Test Circuits
Circuits, Models, and Architectures Based on Emerging Technologies
Efficient Power Delivery for Highly Complex Integrated Systems
High Performance Clock Distribution Networks
This expert has authored twelve book chapters and many papers in the fields of high speed and low power CMOS design techniques, interconnect and substrate noise, pipelining and retiming, three-dimensional integration, and the theory and application of power and synchronous clock distribution networks. This expert has also authored or edited sixteen books. This expert is a Fellow of the IEEE, an editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, a Member of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Microelectronics Journal, Journal of Low Power Electronics, and Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, and a Member of the technical program committee of a number of conferences.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #225861
This expert is an internationally recognized expert in the field of high-speed communication and computing, and the development of semiconductor devices. While primarily known for work in developing cellular communications, this expert founded and ran three semiconductor companies. This expert is intimately familiar with controlling and interfacing memories such as FLASH EEPROM, DRAM, and SRAM. In these companies, this expert designed and built many system-on-chip devices, which required memories to be embedded or externally interfaced with many different types of bus standards. This expert has designed and incorporated into chip designs, memory controllers, bus controllers, as well as the memory modules of various types and sizes. In addition, this expert has also designed memory cells (DRAM and FLASH EEPROM) as part of vertical floating memory structures to be embedded in the system-on-chip devices. This expert has developed and implemented a number of semiconductor integrated circuit chips. These integrated circuit chips include switch fabrics, processors, high speed interfaces, protocol transposers, controllers, and memory cells and arrays. This expert is an active member of IEEE. This expert has been an organizer for several international symposiums, a guest editor of international journals, and has given a number of invited talks. This expert holds several U.S. patents.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #226413
This expert holds an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering. This expert is a Licensed Professional Electronics Engineer and Expert Witness practicing forensic and technical electrical engineering consulting. This expert’s technical engineering practice includes the design, verification, measurement and testing of electronic signal processing hardware circuits and systems, both integrated circuits and electrical modules, which are used for communication and electro-mechanical control. This expert’s forensic engineering practice includes forensic investigation, advising, reporting and testimony in matters regarding intellectual property, patents, failure analysis, product liability, product requirements and specifications.
For many years this expert worked with built-in self-test (BIST) for integrated circuits. Both digital (which is most common) and analog. BIST systems which generate and deliver test stimulus to one or more circuit nodes, capture resulting signals at one or more circuit nodes, process the captured signals to derive an “answer” which is compared to an expected answer, and finally take action depending on the results.
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience, including hostile trial cross-examination and deposition questioning.
Start Integrated Circuit 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 Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #248891
This expert holds a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering, and presently serves as Professor of Electrical Engineering at a State University. For many years, this expert has taught a year-long sequence of graduate level classes in System-on-Chip design. Further, this expert's career has been spent as a professor doing research on VLSI design, both analog and digital, including SoC design. This expert has designed SoCs, fabricated them, and published the results. This expert's research interests center primarily on the design and computer-aided design of digital and analog integrated circuits. Ongoing projects include: optimal gate size and threshold voltage selection for absolute leakage and/or dynamic power minimization subject to a frequency constraint; fast, accurate simulation-based timing analysis; more accurate power estimation for digital circuits; ultra low power time-to-digital conversion; resilient logic and memory for truly sub-threshold operation; for example, highly reliable, very low area overhead asynchronous logic design operating at sub-threshold voltages. Also, the design of secure ICs that cannot be reverse engineered and reverse engineering PCBs that are damaged and/or discarded. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience including deposition and testimony.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #226388
This integrated circuits, DRAM, SRAM, and JEDEC expert holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees and has over 50 years of experience in the integrated circuit and semiconductor industry. While earning these degrees at a prestigious California university, this expert developed a widely used circuit simulation program for integrated circuits that helped launch a major field of circuit simulation tools used worldwide since the early 1970s. That work led to recognition as a Fellow of a prominent professional engineering association for contributions to integrated circuit simulation.
This expert worked with semiconductor design teams during the 1970s and 1980s on DRAM development projects, including 4K, 16K, 65K, and 256K DRAMs.
This expert has served as an expert in a Section 337 investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission involving semiconductor technology. That work required substantial familiarity with JEDEC standards for DRAMs and SRAMs in order to prepare expert analysis.
This expert has been involved in the design of DRAMs since the 1970s and has remained current on DDR standards as part of that work.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #257063
This power supply expert holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from a prestigious technical university and a PE credential, with a background in electrical and electronic engineering, particularly related to power electronics, electromagnetics, and electromechanics.
This expert has specialties in power supplies, radio-frequency electronics, control systems, printed circuits, integrated-circuit packaging, magnetics design, and power transmission and distribution. This expert has testified on many occasions.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #269887
This mobile systems/base station expert holds a Ph.D. in wireless communication and location technologies and is a recognized expert in mobile systems. This expert has over 30 years of expertise in wireless technologies, spanning base stations, smartphones, and IoT devices using 5G, 4G, 3G, 2G, WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and UWB. This expert's core focus is wireless PHY and MAC layers between base stations and user equipment, including messaging protocols, standards, architectures, algorithms, and performance. This expert also holds an M.Ss. in antennas and electromagnetics, with a focus on high-performance antenna systems in challenging operating environments, and is a prolific author and inventor with numerous publications and patents in wireless technologies, particularly smart antennas and location systems.
This expert has worked on the design, development, testing, and deployment of wireless transceivers in RAN base stations, including RRUs, for many decades. That development work includes system, algorithm, software, firmware, hardware, printed circuit board, integrated circuit, semiconductor, and ASIC levels. This expert guided development of digital cellular base stations at a prominent telecommunications research organization, including significant contributions to software, firmware, and DSP algorithm implementation. This expert also led product development of RAN smart antenna equipment, including transceivers and associated software and firmware, as a senior technology executive at a communications technology company.
This expert witness background includes supporting many cases involving 5G, 4G, and 3G RAN equipment, including work as a source code reviewer for software, firmware, and DSP issues. This expert has testified in federal patent infringement litigation involving complex 5G RAN RRUs with massive MIMO and has experience with trade secret matters, including criminal trade secret issues. This expert has many patents and publications related to wireless RAN, including transceivers, signal processing, and algorithms, and has co-authored technical textbook material on practical implementation of 3GPP UMTS High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), an advanced 3G technology.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #283641
This Bluetooth expert has over 25 years of experience with Bluetooth and broader wireless communications technology.
This expert co-chaired a committee in a wireless standards organization that developed Bluetooth 802.11 AMP (Alternate MAC/PHY), and worked with Bluetooth integrated circuit implementations for frequency hopping and coexistence between Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11/Wi-Fi. This expert is a named inventor on numerous patents and has previous litigation experience.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #284084
This chemical/electrochemical processing/semiconductor expert holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry and has worked in chemical and electrochemical processing of semiconductor devices, including inventing and improving chemical processes for integrated circuits and their packages, forming and leading an advanced analysis facility for integrated circuits using electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, and x-ray techniques, and leading a team developing next-generation integrated circuit packages.
This expert is a distinguished professor in a chemical and biomolecular engineering school, with research interests including chemical processes for the fabrication of integrated circuits and packages, and helped establish a prominent semiconductor research consortium's center of excellence focused on interconnects for integrated circuits.
This expert has taught elective courses on the chemistry of integrated circuit and electronic packaging fabrication for more than 30 years, with a focus on the role of chemical sciences in chip fabrication. This expert has published over 330 peer-reviewed journal publications and has been awarded over 65 United States Patents.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #288350
This networking, datacenters, and switches/routers expert is a recognized academic specialist in networking, datacenters, and switches/routers, with prior departmental leadership in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This expert holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering.
This expert currently directs a high-speed networking research lab, leading a team of research faculty and graduate students. This expert conducts research in software defined networking, network function virtualization, datacenter networks, high-speed packet processing, switching, routing, network security, quality of service control, and network on chip. This expert holds over 55 patents and has published over 200 journal and conference papers. This expert has researched and taught Data Centers and Cloud Computing for more than 10 years and currently teaches a graduate course on Data Centers and Cloud Computing. This expert has worked in telecommunications for over 40 years, written a number of networking books, and has many years of hardware design experience.
This expert co-founded a networking technology company and formerly served in a senior technology leadership role, leading a team that implemented a multi-terabit Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) switch router with carrier-class reliability. This expert also served as technical staff at a telecommunications research organization and was involved in transport and switching system architecture designs and Application-specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) implementations. This expert previously worked as a senior engineer at a telecommunications laboratory performing circuit designs for a digital telephone switching system for a number of years.
This expert is a Fellow of a national inventors academy for demonstrated innovation in creating or facilitating inventions with tangible impact. This expert is also a Fellow of a prominent electrical and electronics engineering professional association for contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high-speed packet networks and has received speaker recognition from a regional section of that association.
This expert has served as a guest editor for a leading communications journal on special topics including advances in ATM switching systems for B-ISDN, next-generation IP switches and routers, high-performance optical/electronic switches/routers for high-speed internet, and high-speed network security.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #294180
This reverse engineering expert holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from a well-regarded university-affiliated microelectronics research center, with specialization in integrated circuit reliability and testing.
This expert has reverse engineering experience involving integrated circuit chips, components, printed circuit boards, sub-systems, electrical and electronic systems, mechanical systems, hydraulic systems, and biomedical systems.
Key reverse engineering principles include identifying specific objectives, possessing detailed and in-depth understanding of the underlying physics, and having the necessary hardware and software tools to carry out disassembly and analysis. This expert uses academic laboratories, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, and public and private company facilities for access to specialized tools and equipment, including scanning electron microscopes, focused ion beam systems, and x-ray inspection systems.
Undergraduate engineering courses developed by this expert were designed to teach students how systems work by teaching how systems fail and by employing effective reverse engineering, diagnostic, and repair methodologies. This expert has also applied reverse engineering expertise in past expert-witness matters.
Start Integrated Circuit Expert SearchExpert Witness #298408
This memory construction and error correction expert brings extensive experience in high-performance and high-dynamic-range analog mixed-signal, custom digital, and RF integrated circuit design, layout, and testing, from concept through production for commercial, military, and space IC products.
This expert has knowledge of IC process development, characterization, and modeling, along with substantial experience obtaining new military, space, and commercial IC business and funding for start-up activities. This expert has provided technical oversight for large IC design teams and has contributed creatively to the solution of difficult IC technical problems.
This expert has authored or co-authored over 100 U.S. patents, hundreds of international patents, and over 15 published conference and journal papers. This expert also has experience at the discrete analog, RF, and mixed-signal level for system analysis, link budget analysis, board-level circuit design and layout, and system design, architecture, and analysis.
This expert is knowledgeable in standards and has experience in memory, error correction, and logic design. This expert has reviewed patent portfolios involving memory construction and supporting error correction coding, including both 1-D and 3-D memories, and has experience with logic design patent portfolio review and claim chart work.
This expert also has experience in memory litigation, including non-testifying expert work.
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