Camelback Computer Architecture, LLC offers computer architecture
consulting services to assess technology, develop products, and protect
intellectual property. Don Alpert is the
president and principal consultant.
Don has served as an expert witness for more than 15 patent litigation
cases. He has written expert reports on
claim construction, validity analysis, and infringement analysis. He has also been deposed and testified at
trials on these topics. His skills
include analyzing hardware (VHDL and Verliog) and software (C and assembly
language) of complex computer systems.
Don
also consults to assess patents for acquisition and for pre-litigation review.
Don’s areas of technical
specialty include:
· Instruction
Set Architecture
· Processor
Organization
· Microprocessor
Design and Validation
· Performance
Evaluation
· PC
System Architecture
His qualifications
include:
· Over
20 years leadership experience at Intel, National Semiconductor, and Zilog
· Principal
architect of the Pentium® Processor
· Ph.D.,
M.S., and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and MIT
· Past
chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers
· Taught
graduate-level classes in computer architecture at Stanford, Tel Aviv, and ASU
· Microprocessor
Report Editorial Board member
See a summary
of expert witness testimony and a summary of sample projects
for product development.
Publications and Presentations:
Influential
Architectures and National
Semiconductor Swordfish on Mark Smotherman’s site for computer architecture
history
The Future of Microprocessor Architecture
keynote at Cool Chips I (4/15/1998)
Scalable
Micro-supercomputers based on the article in Microprocessor Report
(3/17/2003)
Adaptive
Computing Ensemble Microprocessor Architecture, U.S. Patent No. 7,389,403
(6/17/2008)
Anthem College
Commencement Address (12/18/2009)
Camelback Computer Architecture is named after Camelback
Mountain, the dramatic landmark in central Phoenix. Click here for a
view of the mountain from Papago Park.
Last modified 01-Feb-2012.