Electronics Design Experts

Barr Group's electronics expert witnesses are senior-level engineers to PhDs with hands-on experience designing analog and digital circuits and semiconductors. Our expert witnesses assist attorneys in the reverse engineering of electronic circuitry and analysis of chip designs for patent infringement and other litigation.

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Electronic Circuits and Semiconductors

Barr Group is in the business of designing reliable and secure computers and our electrical engineering experts are intimately familiar with the design of electrical circuits such as:

  • Analog and digital electronics, including antennas
  • Nonvolatile memories (NAND/NOR Flash) and caches
  • Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and other displays
  • Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs)
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and CPLDs
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
  • System-on-a-Chip (Soc) and multi-chip modules (MCM)
  • Wafer manufacturing processes and IC packaging
  • Microprocessor/microcontroller/CPU design
  • Digital Signal Processor (DSP) design and filtering
  • Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) design
  • Microcode and instruction set architecture design
  • High-level language compiler development
  • Multiprocessing and parallel programming

Barr Group's electronics expert witnesses are familiar with all of the tools used to design and test circuits and semiconductors, from hardware description languages like Verilog and VHDL to simulation tools like SPICE/HSPICE. We are as equally skilled with electronic design automation platforms as with schematic capture, register transfer logic, and assembly language code.

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Expert Witness Services

Barr Group's electronics experts support plaintiffs and defendants in litigation in U.S. District Courts, at the International Trade Commission (ITC), and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Our services include:

  • Technical assistance with drafting of discovery requests
  • Analysis of electronics and related design documents
  • Prior art review of electronics patents for invalidity
  • Evaluation of semiconductor-IP such as trade secrets
  • System performance benchmarking and evaluation
  • Reverse engineering, including disassembly of binary code
  • Expert reports, declarations, and witness statements
  • Testimony at deposition, oral hearings, and trials

Barr Group has a demonstrated ability to quickly activate one or more team members to match the size, scope, and complexity of any project.

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The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:

Electronic Circuits
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Experts in Electronic Circuits

Video Games & Casino Gaming Expert Profile

Independent software and computer engineering consultant with more than twenty-five years of experience in systems for gaming and gambling. Following from an earlier decade of hands-on experience in the design of electronics and software for various other types of products, has developed specialized expertise in the design and analysis of casino games.

Adaptive Control Systems Expert Profile

Mechanical and electrical engineering consultant and professor with decades of experience in systems for automated industrial control and intelligent transportation. Significant expertise in adaptive control and intelligent transportation systems as well as nonlinear systems, vehicle dynamics and control, marine transportation, and neural networks.

Online and Casino Gaming Expert Profile

Independent computer engineering consultant with four decades of experience in the casino gaming industry, including development of gaming and related technologies and extensive work with gaming regulators and agencies worldwide.

Vehicle Informatics & Safety Expert Profile

Independent consultant and electrical engineer with more than four decades of industry experience. Has significant experience in systems engineering, advanced technology development, enterprise software, strategic planning, and program/project management. Majority of career spent in automotive industry where he developed expertise in vehicle electrical and electronics systems, vehicle informatics systems, and vehicle safety and control systems. Also has experience with spacecraft electronics, communications systems, and mobile information technologies.

Satellite & Cellular Base Station Expert Profile

Independent engineering consultant specializing in wireless cellular mobile technology and real-time embedded software development.

Cellular Wireless Air Interface Expert Profile

Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with decades of R&D experience in communications networks and wireless signal detection and estimation.

Aircraft Avionics Software Expert Profile

FAA-certified Designated Engineering Representative (DER), flight instructor, and commercial pilot and former director of engineering and chief software architect for next generation cockpit flight displays.

Drone & UAV Navigation Expert Profile

USAF Academy researcher in image processing and GPS-denied navigation with decades of experience in control systems design and DSP algorithms for applications including drone unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). 

Acoustics & Audio Processing Expert Profile

Professor of electrical engineering who has spent over two decades researching and inventing algorithms at the intersection of acoustics, digital signal processing, and machine learning.

Medical Image Processing Expert Profile

Research scientist and independent consultant with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and specialized expertise in signal, image, video, and content processing and data compression.

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Expert S416N

Electronics and computer science expert with more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience...

Expert I500N

Mechanical and electrical engineering consultant and professor with decades of experience in...

Expert D420S

Registered Professional Engineer (PE) with several decades of hands-on industry experience...

Expert A536S

Independent consultant and electrical engineer with more than four decades of industry...

Expert S163T

Professor of electrical and computer engineering with over twenty-five years of experience in...

Expert M242N

Professor of electrical and computer engineering and robotics with more than a decade of...

Expert S425N

Electrical engineer and expert in battery and power electronics technology with special...

Expert Y520K

Professor of electrical and computer engineering with decades of experience at the forefront of...

Expert M500N

Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with decades of R&D experience in...

Expert J520S

Independent engineering consultant in the design of both electronics and software with a formal...

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Case Study: Satellite TV Piracy

In its legal fight against signal pirates, DirecTV retained a team of Barr Group's to engage in thorough electronic circuit reverse engineering and device testing of over one hundred suspected piracy products. Barr Group experts testified that the majority of the accused products were designed for use in satellite TV piracy in several dozen cases that went to trial.

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