Viewing posts from February, 2018
Erroll Dietz is a remarkable fellow. He started out at National Semiconductor as Bob Pease's
technician, and rose to become Chief Technology Officer.
Sometimes it's useful to add supporting documents, schematics, scope photos, simulations or other things to Usenet posts. By popular request I've added links to some of these, in no particular order.
One of the nice things about sci.electronics.design is that it's widely redistributed by archive sites, some of which you can also use for posting, which is good since Google Groups no longer links to Usenet.
Some examples:
electronics-related
This was a patent and trade secret case concerning lidar (laser radar) technology for self-driving cars and trucks. It was the biggest case I've worked on, with potential damages over $2 billion, and also one of the most fun. I was the defendant's expert on the patent side, and we beat Google--they dropped all their patent assertions. (This was made a lot easier by the fact that Uber wasn't infringing, of course.)