Mr. John Peck Senior Member

San Francisco, California , USA  •  IEEE San Francisco Section
Tagline
Principal Engineer, Consultant, Intellectual property matters relating to source code
Contact
  • Phone
    +14154208449 (Work)
    +14154208449 (Cell)
Biography
John Peck has over 25 years of experience as a software and hardware engineer with over 11 years of experience as a technical analyst for hardware and software intellectual property cases. He has drafted numerous claim charts and prepared expert reports for software copyright, trade secret, and patent litigation.  He is comfortable researching and expressing complex technical issues.  He is experienced with source code review and able to explain its operation in ways that most people can understand. He is experienced with 31 litigation cases, testified at deposition nine times and three times at trial. John Peck is Partner and Principal Engineer at Bay2Sierra Silicon Services, Inc. since 2008. His specialties include systems development, SOC/ASIC/FPGA design and verification, system security, architecture and performance modeling, design methodology automation, and software development.
Certifications
• Code Suite Certified by SAFE Corporation
Special Skills
Technical Specialties
John Peck has over 25 years of experience as a software and hardware engineer with over 10 years of experience as a technical analyst for hardware and software intellectual property cases. He has drafted numerous claim charts and prepared expert reports for software copyright, trade secret, and patent litigation. He is comfortable researching and expressing complex technical issues. He is experienced with source code review and able to explain its operation in ways that most people can understand.
Additional Specialties
FPGAs, ASICs, SoCs, Processors including GPUs, Chipsets, HDL-Software Interfaces, Programming Language Interface (PLI), SystemVerilog Direct Programming Interface (DPI), Verilog Procedural Interface (VPI), Operating systems, Linux, UNIX, Windows, Programming languages, C, C , Assembly language, x86 vector programming, Python, embedded python, Perl, Java, Scripting languages, Bash, Csh, Synopsys Design Compiler (DC), Verilog, System Verilog, RTL, Verification methodologies, Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), Wafer Scale Engines
Interests
Intellectual property
Patents
Software protection
Microcontrollers
CMOS technology
Control systems
High-speed integrated circuits
Neurocontrollers
System-on-chip
Microprocessors
CMOS technology
Embedded systems
Microcomputers
Processor scheduling
System-on-chip
Patents
Intellectual property
US Government agencies
Software protection
Intellectual property
Software
Experience
Chief Engineer/Chief Scientist
Bay2Sierra Silicon Services, Inc.
Education
University of California-Los Angeles
Master of Science
Computer Sciences and Information Technologies , 1995
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science
Engineering , 1992