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Bob Zeidman, President

Bob Zeidman is the founder and president of Zeidman Consulting. Since 1987, Bob has designed ASICs, FPGAs, and PC boards for RISC-based parallel processor systems, laser printers, network switches and routers, and other real time systems. His clients have included Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Ricoh Systems, and Texas Instruments. He has written technical papers on hardware and software design methods, and has taught courses on Verilog, ASIC, and FPGA design at engineering conferences throughout the world. He holds a master's degree from Stanford University and two bachelor's degrees from Cornell University and holds several patents. He is the author of The Software IP Detective's Handbook, Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs, Verilog Designer's Library, and Introduction to Verilog. Bob is a Senior Member of the IEEE and was the recipient of the 1994 Wyle/EE Times American by Design Award and the 2003 Jolt Reader's Choice Award in addition to other engineering and scholastic awards. Bob has also won awards for writing and for the production and direction of short films. Bob was also the president, CEO, and founder of The Chalkboard Network, an e-learning company for engineers and business professionals and is currently the president of Zeidman Technologies, a company developing unique software tools for efficient development of embedded systems.

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Nik Baer, Research Engineer/Project Leader

Nikolaus Baer is a research engineer at Zeidman Consulting. He has developed software for marine research, optical testing equipment, military terrain databases, mobile applications and medical devices. He has written articles and given presentations about software trade secret theft and how to analyze source code for detecting it. Nik is certified in the use of CodeSuite®. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara, where he attended on a Regents Scholarship. He has placed first in the Start Cup 2004 business plan competition. Nik is currently the assistant secretary of the Northern California Scholarship Foundation's Alumni Association, a member of the Belmont Lions, and a member of IEEE.

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Jim Zamiska, Research Engineer

Jim Zamiska is a research engineer at Zeidman Consulting. He has created software development tools and applications for, among other things, video post production, computer graphics, image database querying, robot control, computer vision, and e-learning. Jim is certified in the use of CodeSuite®. He has a patent in digital storage and management and holds bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

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Evan Kovanis, Research Engineer

Evan Kovanis is a research engineer at Zeidman Consulting. He has developed embedded firmware, GUI software, RF hardware, database application software, and ASIC verification code. Evan is certified in the use of CodeSuite®. He holds a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara.

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Clients

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