Providing expert IP services related to the fields of Computer Hardware Architecture and Networking Hardware Architecture, including:
- Expert Witness
- Patent analysis
- Infringement and Invalidity Research
- Technical Due Diligence
- Advice to Startups
I have testified in Federal Court and have been deposed three times on my expert reports.
Charles Narad Consulting
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Expert Services - Computer Hardware and Network Equipment Architecture
I am a senior hardware system
architect with a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a
25-year history of leading and delivering successful cutting-edge products. I
hold 34 patents related to the fields of computers and network processing and
have extensive IP experience. My areas of expertise span logic,
microarchitecture and component design through full system architecture,
interactions between hardware and software, communications protocols and
related fields including:
- Computer hardware & system
architecture
- Network equipment architecture &
usage
- Communications protocols
- Network Processor (NPU) &
fabrics
- Packet processing
- Buses, switches & interconnects
- Peripheral device interfaces
- The hardware/software boundary
- Memory management (MMU)
- Caches
- Multiprocessor systems
- Shared memory, coherence, ordering
- Inter-processor communication
- ASIC
- Embedded processors
- Microprocessors including ARM/Neon,
x86, SPARC, MIPS, 68000
- Ethernet
- Busses including Multibus, VME,
SBus, PCI, PCI-e, SPI3, SPI4, IXBus, ASI
- VLIW
- Intellectual property, patents,
& trade secrets
- Standards development
- Microcode
