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Marwan Hassoun

Founder & President

Intellectual Inspiration’s founder Dr. Marwan Hassoun has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of the semiconductor industry and has been  involved in building and managing innovative Integrated Circuits products that include communications and processor and co-processor design large complex integrated System-on-Chip (SOCs) with high-speed analog, digital, memory and RF circuits.  Dr. Hassoun’s experience includes academia (teaching and research), startups, large semiconductor companies, expert witness, intellectual property evaluation, IP strategy and innovation services.  Dr. Hassoun has helped organizations with their technology innovation and IP strategy over the years.  Click here for Dr. Hassoun's CV.

Dr. Hassoun is a co-inventor on 54 US and International patents in the areas of high-speed transceivers, Programmable Devices (FPGAs), ADCs and DACs, Memories, RFID, DSP filters, Power Management, Machine Automation and Networking.  He has served as an Expert Witness for 40+ intellectual property, trade secret and technology dispute cases.

Intellectual Inspiration Team

The Intellectual Inspiration team has expertise in all aspects of deep-submicron integrated circuits product lifecycle, including planning, design, licensing, verification, integration, synthesis, physical design (including layout), testing, qualification, fabrication, debug, revisions, and customer support.  Dr. Hassoun and the Intellectual Inspiration team have been heavily involved in the intellectual property aspect of the semiconductor industry including innovation services, IP strategy, technology trends, IP landscape, patent portfolio evaluation and corporate profiles.  Intellectual Inspiration’s litigation services and experience cover expert witness services, prior art searches, source code evaluation including Verilog, VHDL, schematics, layout and reverse engineering reports.  Clients past and present include high technology industry giants, startups, Universities, law firms and intellectual property companies.

Expert #2 Technology & Intellectual Property Support

  • Over 25 years of integrated circuits, CAD, processors, and Bioengineering experience
  • PhD, MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Industry and Academic Experience, a renowned expert
  • Accomplished leader, researcher, designer and innovator.
  • Consultant for leading high tech companies
  • Authored approximately 100 technical articles
  • Experience with a large range of processes, techniques and tools including FinFETs and 3-D die integration
  • Experience with design architecture, RTL (Verilog & VHDL), verification and synthesis
  • Experience with many programming languages
  • Litigation support including source code review, on- and  off-site

Expert #3 Technology & Intellectual Property Support

  • Over 25 years of integrated circuits experience
  • Analog, digital, RF, PCBs, Processors, Communications
  • Accomplished architect, designer, leader and manager
  • Large company, startup and consulting experience
  • Project & systems development for a wide range of products
  • Experience with a large range of processes, techniques and tools
  • VLSI from the top all the way down: design architecture, RTL (Verilog & VHDL), synthesis, SPICE
  • Testing, quality assurance and product support experience
  • Familiarity with floorplanning, power & back-end analysis
  • C, C++, Perl, Python and many other script and programming languages
  • Litigation support including source code review, on- and  off-site

Expert #4 25 years of full custom IC design Industry experience

  • Digital and Analog Circuits
  • MS and BS degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Over 60 chips as design engineer and 40 chips engineering management
  • Experience with cost, scheduling, and resource management
  • Designs include CMOS imagers, detector interface circuits, general logic circuits, memories (DRAM and SRAM), A/D converters, and many others
  • IC design, silicon foundry interface, and circuit database management
  • Developed space based technologies for NASA and US military
  • Experience with the entire chip design cycle including specifications, architecture, verification, implementation, layout, backend methodologies, packaging, testing, quality assurance and product support
  • C, C++, Perl, Python and many other script and programming languages
  • Litigation support including source code review, reverse engineering reports, on- and off-site