People

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 three patents. He is the author of 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

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 about software trade secret theft and is certified in the use of CodeSuite®. He holds a bachelors 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, and is working his way through the Kenpo Karate and Arnis martial arts.

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Clients

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