Embedded Systems Consultant

Gary Stringham & Associates Gary Stringham & Associates is an engineering consulting and training firm in the software, firmware, and hardware domains. We can help you with your design, development, testing, debugging, and integration. We can analyze and explain technical subjects to help resolve legal disputes as an expert witness. We have experience in various industries including consumer electronics, municipal utilities, and green technologies. If you think we might be of some service to you, contact us.

“I think, again, you have solved one of the toughest problems for us with your expertise and dedication.” Ray Xu, Firmware Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Shanghai, RPC

Consulting

Our past consulting, analysis, and development experience covers several areas. It includes system-level architecture and design down to I/O protocol design. It includes design, development, and debugging of C and assembly language code for end products and test harnesses. We have established standards for front-end chip designs and for device driver development. See more...

Expert Witness

Our years of technical analysis and reverse-engineering experience is used to look for infringement of patents, trade secrets, and copyrights. We are certified on CodeSuite^®, a software forensics tool. Gary understands patents having been granted 12 US patents and having authored 15 defensive publications. Past expert witness cases include product reliability claims and copyright/IP infringement. See more...

Training/Presentations

We have trained and given presentations to engineers on these topics: Testing & Debugging, Reusable Software, and Hardware/Firmware Interface Design. See more...

Publications/Writings

Book: Hardware/Firmware Interface Design: Best Practices for Improving Embedded Systems Development. This improves the front-end design of ASIC, FPGA, SoC, and ASSP.

Newsletters: The Embedded Bridge. Series of newsletters discussing hardware/firmware interface design. See more...