Ransom’sNotes
Ransom Stephens, PhD
About
How We Collaborate
We don’t want a simple contract, we want a collaboration. We don’t work 9 to 5 and we don’t have canned solutions, we bring value by contributing brilliance, tenacity, and vision in a unique way to every project we approach. • We use our understanding of the market and technology to develop an idea and then present it for your approval • We produce a statement of work with a firm schedule and price quote • We work independently, updating you with milestones, and maintaining the focus of your message • Since 2005 we have never missed a deadline or gone over budgetRansom Stephens, Ph.D.
Dr. Ransom Stephens has been helping engineers advance to technology’s cutting edge since 2005. He teaches engineers the concepts they need to design better systems, better serdes, better backplanes, and better ways to use test equipment to find problems and come up with solutions. He can teach at any level of technical sophistication: R&D engineers, test/manufacture/product engineers, technical marketers, sales reps, even executives. Ransom started out in in basic-research; he worked in laboratories and universities across the United States and Europe specializing in precise measurements of noisy signals before moving to the private sector, first as the Director of Advanced Tech at a startup and now as a Signal Integrity Sage. He is the author of over four-hundred articles in the electronics industry and science journals on subjects ranging from the analysis of electrodynamics in high-rate digital systems to popular science. Ransom is an entertaining author and speaker whose reputation for delivering a clear understanding of complex topics is legendary.The 2017 Jim Williams Contributor of the Year
ACE award winner for
advancing understanding of design and
engineering through articles, papers, seminars,
and keynote speeches
• Advancing engineers to higher data rates by providing intense training courses and seminars • Creator of the highest quality educational content in the industry • Provides statistical data analysis and advanced optimization techniques to clients in need of a deeper understanding of their productsPublication List
Curriculum Vitae
2005-present • Signal Integrity Sage, President Ransom’s Notes 2000-2006 • Applied Electrodynamics Scientist, Keysight (then Agilent) Technologies 1999-2000 • Director of Advanced Tech, Enhanced Messaging Systems (wireless web startup) 1990-2000 Research Scientist / Professor • Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington • ATLAS experiment, CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire • D-Zero experiment Fermi National Accelerator Lab • SDC experiment, Superconducting Super Collider • CLEO Experiment, Cornell University • TPC/Two-gamma experiment, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Education • PhD Experimental High Energy Physics, UC Santa Barbara • BS Physics, UC San Diego and University of Birmingham, England Patents • Pending: New technique for stressed-receiver tolerance testing using Crest Factor Emulation • Two techniques for distinguishing timing noise from different causes: US Patents #7,191,080 and #7,149,638
Ransom’sNotes
Ransom Stephens, PhD
© 2020 Ransom Stephens
About
How We Collaborate
We don’t want a simple contract, we want a collaboration. We don’t work 9 to 5 and we don’t have canned solutions, we bring value by contributing brilliance, tenacity, and vision in a unique way to every project we approach. • We use our understanding of the market and technology to develop an idea and then present it for your approval • We produce a statement of work with a firm schedule and price quote • We work independently, updating you with milestones, and maintaining the focus of your message • Since 2005 we have never missed a deadline or gone over budgetRansom Stephens, Ph.D.
Dr. Ransom Stephens has been helping engineers advance to technology’s cutting edge since 2005. He teaches engineers the concepts they need to design better systems, better serdes, better backplanes, and better ways to use test equipment to find problems and come up with solutions. He can teach at any level of technical sophistication: R&D engineers, test/manufacture/product engineers, technical marketers, sales reps, even executives. Ransom started out in in basic-research; he worked in laboratories and universities across the United States and Europe specializing in precise measurements of noisy signals before moving to the private sector, first as the Director of Advanced Tech at a startup and now as a Signal Integrity Sage. He is the author of over four-hundred articles in the electronics industry and science journals on subjects ranging from the analysis of electrodynamics in high-rate digital systems to popular science. Ransom is an entertaining author and speaker whose reputation for delivering a clear understanding of complex topics is legendary.The 2017 Jim Williams Contributor of
the Year
ACE award winner for
advancing understanding of design and
engineering through articles, papers,
seminars, and keynote speeches
• Advancing engineers to higher data rates by providing intense training courses and seminars • Creator of the highest quality educational content in the industry • Provides statistical data analysis and advanced optimization techniques to clients in need of a deeper understanding of their productsPublication List
Curriculum Vitae
2005-present • Signal Integrity Sage, President Ransom’s Notes 2000-2006 • Applied Electrodynamics Scientist, Keysight (then Agilent) Technologies 1999-2000 • Director of Advanced Tech, Enhanced Messaging Systems (wireless web startup) 1990-2000 Research Scientist / Professor • Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington • ATLAS experiment, CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire • D-Zero experiment Fermi National Accelerator Lab • SDC experiment, Superconducting Super Collider • CLEO Experiment, Cornell University • TPC/Two-gamma experiment, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Education • PhD Experimental High Energy Physics, UC Santa Barbara • BS Physics, UC San Diego and University of Birmingham, England Patents • Pending: New technique for stressed-receiver tolerance testing using Crest Factor Emulation • Two techniques for distinguishing timing noise from different causes: US Patents #7,191,080 and #7,149,638
