Electronic Circuits Expert Witnesses

Electronic Circuits and Semiconductors

Barr Group is in the business of designing reliable and secure electronics. Our electrical engineering experts have designed and analyzed products across consumer, automotive, medical, industrial, and power electronics, and they 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:

For how electronics expertise is used in a case, including what our experts examine and how to evaluate an electronics expert witness firm, see our electronics expert witness services.

Who are Barr Group's Electronic Circuits expert witnesses?

Barr Group's Electronic Circuits expert witness roster holds 125 anonymized, prequalified profiles; a selection follows, and matched recommendations from the full roster are free to the attorney.

• Secure Computer Systems Expert Witness. Barr Group's embedded electronics and software expert witness has extensive product development and computer security experience and has testified in automotive product liability, software forensics, and source code intellectual property cases.
• Powerline Communications and Network Protocol Expert Witness. Barr Group's network protocol and powerline communications expert witness has over three decades of experience in protocol design and cryptographic security, holds 17 patents, and has testified in patent infringement matters.
• Laser Printer Engines Expert Witness. Barr Group's software, firmware, and electronics design and testing expert witness has over thirty years of professional experience, is a named inventor on a dozen issued U.S. patents, and has testified as an expert witness in several litigations.
• Virtual Reality Worlds & Gaming Expert Witness. Barr Group's computer graphics and video game expert witness has over forty years of experience designing software and electronics, including virtual worlds and simulation environments, and has testified as an expert witness.
• Electronic Casino Games Expert Witness. Barr Group's electronic gaming device expert witness has over thirty years of experience in regulatory-compliance testing and evaluation of electronic devices and has been qualified to testify as an expert witness in a variety of venues.
• Electronic Vehicle Controls Expert Witness. Barr Group's automotive electronic subsystems expert witness has over forty years of industry experience in vehicle electrical and electronic architectures, power generation and distribution, smart and analog sensors, driver assistance and safety features, and mild hybrid dual voltage bus systems.
• Medical Image Processing Expert Witness. Barr Group's signal, image, and video processing expert witness holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and has experience in data compression, medical and dental diagnostic imaging including X-ray, nuclear medicine, and ultrasound, real-time embedded software, and FPGA design.
• Video Game Computer Graphics Expert Witness. Barr Group's computer graphics expert witness has more than thirty years of software industry experience spanning military and flight simulators, video gaming technologies, medical visualization, scientific computing, and web-based Service-Oriented Architecture services.
• Video Game Software and Console Development Expert Witness. Barr Group's video game software and console reverse-engineering expert witness has over four decades of experience in game system architecture and advergaming technology, and has been retained in patent infringement, copyright, trade secret, and contract matters.
• Manufacturing Automated Test Expert Witness. Barr Group's electrical engineering expert witness has several decades of experience designing software and electronics for servo systems, data detectors, signal processors, and test equipment for magnetic and optical storage media and PC, EISA, and VME bus peripherals.