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.
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
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Electronics and computer science expert with more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience...
Mechanical and electrical engineering consultant and professor with decades of experience in...
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) with several decades of hands-on industry experience...
Independent consultant and electrical engineer with more than four decades of industry...
Professor of electrical and computer engineering and robotics with more than a decade of...
Electrical engineer and expert in battery and power electronics technology with special...
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with decades of experience at the forefront of...
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with decades of R&D experience in...
Independent engineering consultant in the design of both electronics and software with a formal...
Professor of electrical engineering with extensive experience as a technology industry...
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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.