Bob Strain, Ph.D.
Bus. Phone: 408 823 9650
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CNSV Member
IEEE Life Senior Member
Device physics, IC design, patent & trade secret litigation, CCD, wafer fab and foundry, memory.
800 Blossom Hill Rd. Unit E222
Los Gatos, CA 95032-3566
USA
Los Gatos, CA 95032-3566
USA
Integrated circuits, from basic technology through applications:
- Adviser to National Semiconductor in support of their Wafer Foundry activities
- Nif/T New Business Architects on two specific projects, one an IP based start-up
- Trade secret and patent actions, including a Santa Clara-based IC manufacturer and the suits prompted by the theft of processing information in Asia.
Past experience includes:
- actively participating in the early development of Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs)
- involvement in memory products, including product development, product management and business analysis
- project management for a state-of-the-art wafer fab in Nagasaki, Japan
- co-authoring a ten-year outlook for key IC markets
- technical liaison with several active foundries, ranging from linear bipolar technologies to advanced CMOS and FLASH technologies
- management of CMOS process development
- inventing or co-inventing 32 US patents