675 Fairview Drive, Suite 246, Carson City, NV 89701   Tel: 775-790-5000

Rapid Prototypes Inc.

Rapid Prototypes has helped dozens of companies with their product development requirements. Here is a partial list of some recent clients:
• Microsoft
• Xilinx
• Walt Disney Feature Animation
• Rockwell International Corporation
• California Institute of Technology
• Synaptics, Inc.
• Verisys
• Sound Flight
• Interval Research Corporation
• Enact Products, Inc.
• MediaLink Technologies

Affiliation: 1993 - present Rapid Prototypes, Inc. Stateline, NV

Professional Experience:

President, Rapid Prototypes Inc.

Developed the world’s fastest commercial FPGA application, a fully parallel 250 MHz cross correlator.

Architected, designed, developed, tested and demonstrated a 2K x 2K, 144 Hz real-time compositing graphics engine. Created a 1-GHz analog video output daughter card .

Designed and developed a 60-Hz vector quantization video codec ASIC using FPGA rapid product prototyping techniques.

Participated in the development of the Talisman architecture, Microsoft.

Architected and built a PCI-Bus logic emulator with 0.5 million FPGA gates for Interval Research Corporation.

Built a 10-GIPS depth-from-stereo video processor using the 0.5-million-gate PCI-Bus logic emulator.

Applications Research Manager, Synaptics

Research in video compression.

Developed digital neural networks using FPGA’s.

Commercial applications of image processing.

Analyzed VLSI CCD devices for MPEG motion compensation.

Design Project Manager, Caltech

Obtained NSF grant for VLSI correlator development.

Produced a 250 MHz micropipelined cross-correlator in 1.2 um CMOS.

Designed and developed a 2 GHz digital spectrometer using correlators.

Created a 2 GHz GaAs A/D converter.

Systems Analyst, Pixar, Inc.

Developed an image processing language for the Pixar Image Computer.

Research and Development Engineer, Dolby Laboratories

Developed a digital audio compression and decompression system.
 
 

Research and Development Engineer, HP Labs

Developed an electron-beam annealing process for MOSFET devices.

Ph.D. Computer Graphics and VLSI, Caltech

Hertz Foundation Fellowship

A.B. Physics, Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University

Completed undergraduate program in three years with high honors.

Von Herzen, Brian, "Signal Processing at 250 MHz using High-Performance FPGA’s" IEEE Transactions on VLSI, in press.

Woodfill, John and Brian Von Herzen, "Real-Time Stereo Vision on the PARTS Reconfigurable Computer," IEEE FPGA’s for Custom Computing Machines, April 1997, Napa, CA (FCCM97).

Von Herzen, Brian, "VLSI Partitioning of a 2 GHz Digital Spectrometer," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits," Volume 25, Number 5, May 1991.

Von Herzen, Brian, Alan Barr and Harold Zatz, "Geometric Collisions for Time-Dependent Parametric Surfaces," Computer Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 3 August, 1990.

Von Herzen, Brian and Alan Barr, "Accurate Triangulations of Deformed, Intersecting Parametric Surfaces," Computer Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1987.

Barr, Alan, Brian Von Herzen and Ronen Barzel, "Computational Techniques for the Self-Assembly of Large Space Structures, "Eighth Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing, Princeton, NJ, May 1987.

Kajiya, Jim and Brian Von Herzen, "Ray Tracing Volume Densities," Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 1984.

Von Herzen, Brian, Ted Kamins and Cliff Drowley, "A Technique for Profiling a Laser Beam and its Application to the Recrystallization of Polysilicon Films," Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 128, No. 12, December 1981.

Kamins, Ted and Brian Von Herzen, "MOSFET’s in Electron-Beam Recrystallized Polysilicon," IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. EDL-2, No. 12, December 1981.

Jose Tierno, Brian Von Herzen et al. "Source-Follower FET Logic Family for GaAs Circuits," patent pending.

2 patents in process.

Languages

Russian, French

Interests

Instrument-rated pilot, windsurfer, bicyclist, skier, surfer, certified scuba diver, amateur photographer, sailor, amateur astronomer, amateur geologist, member IEEE, AOPA Pilots Association, Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA).