About me

I'm a digital design engineer working both in academia and industry, with a focus on architecting energy efficient data processing chips using RISC-V and Arm CPUs.

Experience

Description
2017 Present Working at TU Dresden as a research assistant, refer to my Google Scholar profile.
2017 Present Working part time at Racyics as an R&D engineer for IP development and design services, including projects with Infineon, Renesas, Globalfoundries, and Hyperstone.
2011 2017

Study of Electrical Engineering. In my diploma thesis I explored tightly coupled FPGA architectures for instruction set extensions of a 32-bit microprocessor.

Skills

SkillProficiency
RTL design (mainly SystemVerilog, some VHDL)
Verification, including UVM
Integration of various 3rd party IPs
Synthesis and timing constraints
DFT concepts and architecture
Lab bringup and test pattern development
Bare metal software for Arm and RISC-V CPUs
Prompting AI agents for hardware designs

Chip designs

Tapeout Node Description Contribution Reference
2025 22 nm FD-SOI 1024-ch brain interface Support in architecture, STA debugging, FPGA concept for lab eval
2025 16 nm FinFET Edge AI chip for video processing Toplevel design and integration of VLIW DSP core
2025 12 nm FinFET Automotive MCU Toplevel design and IP integration
2024 22 nm FD-SOI IP Testchip Toplevel design, netlist verification
2022 22 nm FD-SOI ADC Testchip IP integration
2022 22 nm FD-SOI IP Testchip Toplevel design, netlist verification
2021 22 nm FD-SOI Ethernet Testchip with RISC-V core RISC-V CPU integration, verification, lab eval ISOCC
2020 22 nm FD-SOI IP Testchip with multiple Arm CPU and library variants CPU integration, verification, test pattern development and extensive yield evaluation
2020 22 nm FD-SOI RISC-V core with Ethernet PHY and an OPC UA engine Toplevel design, verification, lab eval TVLSI
2019 22 nm FD-SOI IP Testchip Arm CPU integration, netlist verification, lab eval ESSDERC
2019 130 nm SiGe 60 GHz Radar IP integration and verification heise.de
IEEE
2019 22 nm FD-SOI IP Testchip Arm CPU integration, netlist verification TCAS
2019 22 nm FD-SOI ADC Testchip RISC-V CPU integration, verification, lab bringup BioCAS
2019 22 nm FD-SOI IP Testchip Toplevel design and Arm CPU integration, lab eval Cool Chips
2018 SATA Flash controller Netlist verification, MBIST integration
2016 28 nm internal test chip with proprietary 32-bit CPU and BTLE RTL design of CPU and integration