Imaginic, Inc.

Research and Development, Software Development, and Expert Witness Services for Patent Litigation

President

Elizabeth M. Rudnick, Ph.D.

Elizabeth M. Rudnick has been providing technical support, code inspection, analysis, and reporting services in intellectual property litigation cases for communication electronics since 2005. She has carried out architectural exploration and machine learning software development for a neuromorphic processor chip. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, teaching courses on VLSI system design, digital system test, and microprocessor design and verification, and carrying out research in automatic test generation, design verification, built-in self-test, design for testability, fault diagnosis, and memory test. She worked at Motorola on simulation-based design verification of SIMD multiprocessors and for Advanced Micro Devices, developing software for gate arrays and FPGAs. She holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of the book Genetic Algorithms for VLSI Design, Layout and Test Automation (1999).

Previous client engagements

Code inspection, analysis, and reporting in IP litigation cases for several law firms, including McAndrews, Held & Malloy; Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman; and WilmerHale.
Analyzed C/C++, Verilog, and VHDL source code; circuit schematics; and documentation. Prepared reports and testified in depositions.
The cases involved technology for DSL communication, flash dual inline memory, cellular phones, software defined radio, integrated services routers, and GPS.
Carried out architectural exploration and machine learning software development for a neuromorphic processor chip as part of a U.S. Army SBIR-funded project for EWA-GSI.
Physical design and chip implementation for wireless communications and graphics processing chips for several companies including Texas Instruments, Advanced Micro Devices, and Marvell Semiconductor.