SPEAKER 2023

Speakers 2023

The best, most progressive leaders in the field

Alexander Flick

PLC2 GmbH

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    Alexander Flick develops FPGAs for more than 15 years ranging from logic-only design to Embedded Systems with application specific extensions. He has deployed softcore processors as well as hard-IP ARM controllers in different device families. 

    Since 2020 he holds a trainer position at PLC2. His main focus is on the Xilinx tool chaisn for Arm based programmable SoCx / MPSoCs and the new intelligent acceleration concepts coming with the Xilinx Vitis Development Tools.

Alexander Wirthmüller

MPSI Technologies GmbH

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    Alexander Wirthmueller is a multi-skilled engineer with two decades of experience in solving problems with software. His past projects led him to work with low-level MCU-/FPGA-based electronics and single board computers, all the way to cloud-based scientific simulations. More recently Alexander decided to devote himself to providing the embedded software community with powerful developer tools which eliminate most monotonous aspects of coding. Alexander lives in Munich where he runs MPSI Technologies.

Andreas Ley

Synogate UG

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    Andreas Ley has an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Technische Universität Berlin. He has extensive experience in software development, including close‐to‐metal development. His interests encompass computer graphics, computer vision, remote sensing and deep learning. Before founding Synogate, he worked at TU Berlin in the department of Computer Vision & Remote Sensing. There, he worked on pushing the boundaries of remote sensing and near field photogrammetry with deep learning. At Synogate, he is heading development of the Hardware Construction Library "Gatery".

Andreas Schuler

Missing Link Electronics

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    Andreas Schuler is Director Applications at Missing Link Electronics where he coordinates joint work of Xilinx, customers and MLE. His field of operation reaches over Architecture design, Image processing, Security, Neural Networks to product development.


    Andreas Schuler holds a degree in Industrial Electronics (B.Eng.) from Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Andreas Wolf

Avnet-Silica

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    - studied at Technical University in Ilmenau/Germany, Technical and Biomedical Cybernetic, Microprocessor Technics

    - development engineer for smartcard-ppplications, testsystems and support for EDA tools (FPGA) for 18 years

    - since 2004 field application engineer at Avnet-Silica for AMD/Xilinx FPGAs and ONSEMI image Sensors

Angelo LoCicero

 Intel PSG

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    Angelo Lo Cicero is Technical Sales Specialist at Intel PSG with special focus on the IoT market and he’s working on FPGA related topics since 2008. He started his career as an hardware designer where he was responsible for designs, integration and verification of several processor based digital designs. Angelo holds a degree from the University of Palermo.

Ansgar Hein

SGET e.V.

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    Since 2021 Ansgar Hein is the Chairman of the Board at the Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies (SGET). With a proven track-record in the embedded electronics industry, his focus on defining and marketing open industry standards for embedded hardware and software. Ansgar has a degree in business administration.

Anton Kuzmin

ARIES Embedded GmbH

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    Anton Kuzmin has thirty years of embedded systems design experience covering hardware, embedded and real-time software and FPGA.  Since 2016, he is Director of Development at ARIES Embedded GmbH. In this role, Anton is responsible for the development processes spanning company products and clients' projects. He leads development of Systems-on-Module based on Microchip and Intel FPGAs and SoC-FPGAs, and clients' projects involving FPGAs by Microchip, Xilinx and Lattice.


    Before joining ARIES Embedded he participated in development of the PICMG 3.x (AdvancedTCA) family of standards and implementation of modules based on these standards. The previous experience includes CompactPCI and VME-bus systems, embedded and real-time software development for ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and x86.


Dr. Baris Konuk

Future Electronics

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    I obtained the B.Sc. degree from Middle East Technical University (METU) Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in 2004. After graduation, I started to work as an Embedded Software Engineer in Aselsan Inc., a leading defense company in Turkey. Meanwhile, I continued my academic studies and obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees the same department in 2007 and 2015, respectively. After then, I also participated as a part-time lecturer in signal processing and telecommunications area in different universities in Turkey. After 17 years of experience on FPGAs and embedded software in Aselsan Inc., I joined Future Electronics last October as an FPGA specialist responsible for the Central Europe region.

Baruch Mitsengendler

 The MathWorks GmbH

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    Baruch Mitsengendler is a senior application engineer working at MathWorks in Germany since 2016. He provides technical expertise in applying MathWorks capabilities within various HDL-related applications. Prior to joining MathWorks, Baruch worked as an ASIC design and verification engineer, both in Israel and Germany where his focus areas were wireline communication systems as well as memory solutions. Baruch holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Benoit Pradelle

AMD Xilinx

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    Benoit is a PMTS at AMD leading a team focused on software analysis and optimization for HLS. He was previously involved in SLX FPGA at Silexica until the company acquisition by Xilinx. Benoit is trained as a compiler engineer and holds a PhD from University of Strasbourg

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lang

Hochschule Osnabrück

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    1977 - 1983 TH Darmstadt: Diploma in electrical engineering, discipline control theory.

    1983 - 1986 Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH: Hardware and software development for highperformance image analysis systems.

    1986 - 1991 TU Hamburg-Harburg, Institute of Computer Science: PhD in the area of parallel 

    hardware and software for fast image processing algorithms. Development of a 

    parallel computer based on transputers and pipelined hardware.

    TU Hamburg-Harburg, Institute of Computer Science: PhD in the field of parallel 

    hardware and software for fast image processing algorithms. Development of a 

    parallel computer based on transputers and pipelined hardware.

    1991 - 1994 TU Hamburg-Harburg, Institute of Computer Science in cooperation with MAZ 

    Hamburg GmbH: Research position in the field of digital image processing and 

    parallel processing.

    1995 - 1997 MAZ Hamburg GmbH: Project manager for video components in the broadband 

    communication division.

    1997 - 2000 bbcom GmbH&Co.KG, Hamburg: Leader of the embedded software group.

    since 2000 Professor for "Digital Multimedia Systems" at the Osnabrück University of Applied 

    Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.

    Teaching in the areas digital design, microcomputer, programmable logic, C/C++ 

    programming, computer organization, digital systems, image processing, Linux driver 

    programming.

Brian Colgan

Microchip Technology Inc.

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    Brian has many years’ experience in the semiconductor industry, previously working in Xilinx’s research lab; as sales representative for Cypress Semiconductor; and as an FPGA FAE at EPS Global. He is currently a Business Development Manager in the FPGA Business Unit at Microchip Technology where he supports customers throughout Europe. Brian has a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Computer Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology (now TU Dublin).

Burkhard Jour

PQShield

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    Sales Director (Europe)


    Burkhard is a passionate sales leader and security advocate. He combines a strong engineering background covering embedded software and hardware with 30+ years of experience in sales, project management, and solutions engineering in the areas of real-time control, telecommunications, FPGA, safety, and security.

Dr. Christian Siemers

TU Clausthal

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    Since 1993, he has worked as a professor of computer engineering, initially at the Westküste University of Applied Sciences in Heide/Holstein (until 2001). Since 2002 he has been working at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, and since 2008 also at Clausthal University of Technology. There he represents the professorship for automation technology (50%). His main interests are on the one hand programmable system architectures, specifically microprocessors and programmable logic devices as well as all transitional forms, on the other hand the hardware/software interface, the concepts for program development and programming languages.

Darshak Sheladiya

SYSGO GmbH

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     Darshak Sheladiya is a Project Engineer R&T at SYSGO since 2023. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Siegen. 

    He is skilled in FPGA development and passionate about mixed-critical systems, safe AI acceleration, and FPGA virtualization. 

    Previously, he was part of the Chair of Embedded Systems at the University of Siegen, where he developed a secure time-triggered platform for AI applications. 

Daire McNamara

 Emdalo Technologies Ltd.

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    Daire is a co-founder and co-director of Emdalo Technologies, a specialist in Linux, embedded, and AI at the edge development; based in Shannon, Ireland. He is a highly experienced Linux driver and embedded software developer.  Most recently, he has been working with Microchip’s FPGA Business Unit; projects include PolarFire 2 architecture, Linux PCIe for PolarFire SoC, and supporting PolarFire SoC-related aspects of missions to the International Space Station and the moon. He has a degree in chemistry and postgraduate qualifications in Computer Engineering.

David Thomas

Lattice Semiconductor

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    David Thomas is the Senior Director of Sales, Central Europe at Lattice Semiconductor. In this role, he is responsible for driving business growth and adoption of Lattice FPGA technologies by working closely with Lattice customers, channel partners, and ecosystem partners. 

    David is a passionate sales leader and FPGA enthusiast with over 20 years of FPGA industry experience. Prior to joining Lattice in January 2020, he held Engineering and Sales leadership positions at Intel (formerly Altera Corp.), including running Sales for the company’s European Automotive business.   

    He holds an Engineering degree from Erasmushogeschool Brussel. 

Dimitri Hamidi

The MathWorks GmbH

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    Dimitri Hamidi is Senior Application Engineer at MathWorks since 2018, with a focus on HDL code generation and verification, as well as signal and image processing. He received a diploma degree in electrical and information technology engineering from the Technical University of Munich. Prior to joining MathWorks, he worked as a research associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), served as FPGA engineer at FEI and algorithm engineer at Continental.

Prof. Dirk Koch

 University of Manchester

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    Dirk Koch leads the Novel Computing Technologies group at Heidelberg University. Before, he worked in the Advanced Processor Technologies Group at the University of Manchester, the University of Oslo, UBC Vancouver, and the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. His main research interests include run-time reconfigurable systems based on FPGAs, embedded systems, computer architecture, VLSI design, and hardware security. Dirk’s group developed the GoAhead tool for implementing partial reconfiguration on FPGAs, the FPGADefender bistream virus scanner, and the FABulous open-source embedded FPGA generation framework. The latter was used to design chips in TSMC and Skywater processes including a memristor (ReRAM) non-volative FPGA. Dirk Koch is the author of the book “Partial Reconfiguration on FPGAs” and a co-editor of the book “FPGAs for Software Programmers”. 

Dirk van den Heuvel

 ProximusDA GmbH

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    My name is Dirk van den Heuvel (1967), Principal Consultant at TOPIC. I have an academic degree in electronics engineering and graduated on a tool for graphical modelling and automatic code generation of hierarchical state machines for specifically FPGA devices. After having worked for several other design houses, I joined TOPIC in 2007 as an embedded systems designer. Most of the (embedded) projects I have been involved with use FPGAs as well as application processors or micro-controllers. Applications vary from ppb-accurate VCXO design to multi-stream video processing applications, from medical sensor devices to ultrasound imaging. At TOPIC I co-founded the patented Dyplo® concept, a FPGA-based Network-On-Chip solution wrapping partial reconfigurable functions in a deterministic manner with full Linux software integration. Currently, I am consultant at TOPIC and technically responsible for the premier partnership with AMD/Xilinx as well as the System-On-Modules portfolio of TOPIC.

Dr. Dmitry Eliseev

RWTH Aachen University

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    Dmitry began his career in 2006 as an electronics developer for scanning probe microscopes. After six years in industry, he started his PhD in engineering at RWTH Aachen University, where he developed electronics and FPGA firmware for acoustic sensors and phased arrays. As a PostDoc at RWTH Aachen, he is currently contributing to the upgrade of the CMS detector at CERN, developing electronics and firmware for the gaseous particle detectors. Dmitry is passionate about FPGAs and SoCs and has a strong interest in silicon photomultiplier-based detectors.


Ernst Wehlage

 PLC2 GmbH

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    After graduating from university, Ernst Wehlage started in Darmstadt in the digital development of professional video systems for the future HDTV technology.

    In complex systems, FPGA technologies were used early on to achieve the high data rates. These technologies were decisive for the development of new innovative film and video systems in high-resolution real-time processing.

    With now 29 years of professional experience in training and application of programmable logic, the fascination of these possibilities is unbroken, as continuously innovative technology leaps provide hardware developers and now also software developers with ever better methods.

    Since 2001 he has been a member of the PLC2 team and has been a speaker on almost all topics of PLC2 training courses, designs FPGA-based systems for customers and advises developers on how to solve their development tasks.

Espen Tallaksen

 EmLogic AS

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    Espen is the CEO and founder of the newly established EmLogic and previously also Bitvis, both independent design centres for embedded software and FPGA, - with Bitvis as a leading Nordic company within its field and EmLogic now already well on the way to the same size and position. He graduated from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) in 1987 and has 30 years’ experience with FPGA and ASIC development from Philips Semiconductors in Switzerland and various companies in Norway. During twenty years Espen has had a special interest for methodology cultivation and pragmatic efficiency and quality improvement. 

    One result of this interest is the UVVM verification platform that is the #1 VHDL verification methodology and library world-wide, and in fact the fastest growing FPGA verification methodology independent of HDL.

    He has given many presentations and keynotes internationally on various technical aspects of FPGA development, including lots of hands-on tutorials and presentations at FPGA-Kongress every year since 2016; - all with a crowded audience and great feedback. He is also giving courses world-wide on how to design and verify FPGAs more efficiently and with a better quality.


    During twenty years Espen has had a special interest for methodology cultivation and pragmatic efficiency and quality improvement. One result of this interest is the UVVM verification platform that is currently being used by companies world-wide. 

    He has given many presentations and keynotes on various technical aspects of FPGA development. He is also giving courses on how to design and verify FPGAs more efficiently and with a better quality. 'Advanced VHDL Verification – Made Simple ' (3 days) and 'Accelerating FPGA design' (2 days) are both arranged in Germany in cooperation with Trias Mikroelektronik. Espen also had a hands-on tutorial and two presentations at FPGA-Kongress in 2016; - both of them with a crowded audience and great feedback on the interesting technical contents.

Florian Pramme

Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften

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    Florian Pramme is an external doctoral student at Clausthal University of Technology and works as a teaching assistant within the Department of Computer Science at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Wolfenbüttel. Florian Pramme studied computer science at Ostfalia and was subsequently employed there as a research assistant in the field of systems engineering. Now he is a lecturer for special projects and gives lectures on the topics of technical computer science. His research topics were mainly simulation and verification of future vehicle technologies as well as autonomous driving. His current research deals with the digitalization of mobile systems as well as the conceptualization of future networking in Industry 4.0.

Georg Hanak

 Avnet EMG GmbH Silica

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    Georg Hanak works as a Senior Field Application Engineer for Xilinx products at Avnet Silica. He began his career at PLC2 where he worked as design engineer and trainer for Xilinx products. In 1998, he joined Insight Memec as FAE responsible for Xilinx FPGAs. Later on, he moved to Altera as FAE, with a focus on automotive customers. He is with Avnet for nearly 16 years and was initially responsible for Lattice products, later for the entire Microsemi portfolio and now since 6 years for Xilinx.

Gerhard Nedok

Arrow Central Europe GmbH

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    Gerhard Nedok is Market Development Engineer for FPGAs covering the Central Europe region. He started his career as FPGA Designer in 2001 for telecom equipment. He joined Avnet Silica as FPGA FAE in 2007 until he joined Arrow in 2018 as FAE for Intel PSG. Since mid of 2019 he is in the role as market development engineer. 

Gianluca Gilardi

AMD

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    From 1994 to 1999 Gianluca Gilardi worked for Arrow: Xilinx FAE, Xilinx PLM, Technical Sales. In 1999 he joined Xilinx. He started as FAE, for four years covering mainly global Telecom accounts. Then in 2003 he moved to Sales where he covered several roles: Key Account Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Global Account Manager. Then, for five years he was responsible for the Distribution Sales Channel in EMEA. Finally in January 2020, he was promoted VP Sales EMEA.  He holds a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano 

Hans-Jürgen Schwender

 TRIAS Mikroelektronik GmbH

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    Hans-Jürgen Schwender has a masters degree in electrical engineering. From 1991 until the end of 2001, he worked as an ASIC design engineer at Philips Kommunikationsindustrie and Lucent Technologies in Nuremberg and at Infineon Technologies in San Jose, CA, USA. He worked on the creation of specifications, the implementation in VHDL, verification on module and chip level as well as programming of ASIC Driver Software in C.  


    Mr. Schwender has been working at TRIAS mikroelektronik GmbH since 2002 and, as the technical manager covers a large part of Siemens EDA's products - with a focus on HDL design, verification and cable harness design products.

Dr. Harald Simmler

hema electronic GmbH

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    Dr. Harald Simmler is the Software Team lead at Hema. In this role, he is responsible for product development and is also driving the innovative Fast-Lane module based automization for more efficient and faster development.

    Harald is a FPGA enthusiast working in the FPGA industry for over 20 years in different roles an areas. His PhD about Multitasking on FPGAs was only the starting point for a series of developments in the FPGA domain. 


Harald Werner

Efinix Inc.

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    EFINIX GmbH 

    EMEA Senior Sales Director and Managing Director started at 03.2020.

    Over 28 years experience in the FPGA Market.

    Prior at Efinix I worked at Lattice Semiconductor in Technical Management and Sales Management position 10.2000-1.2020

    Prior to Lattice I worked at Actel GmbH and at Viewlogic Sytsems as FAE.

    I started my career at Siemens AG (Funk und Radar/ ÜB/ÖV) (1987-1992)

    Dipl. Ing(FH) FH Koblenz 1987

Helmut Ploetz

Arrow Electronics

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    • Dipl.-Ing.(FH), M.Eng. Electronic Engineering
    • 5 years in automotive Hard/software development
    • 2010 at Arrow Electronics as Senior-FAE for semiconductor products
    • 2014 Business Development Manager in Central Europe for Intel FPGAs
    • 2018 FPGA Technology & Supplier Business Manager EMEA

Jens Michaelsen

Avnet EMG GmbH

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    2008… FAE for digital systems with focus on FPGA, now @Avnet Silica in Hamburg.

      2002… @DED: Design house for FPGA, DSP, Linux, …, based systems

      1992… @GTC/FED: Video & Audio studio equipment

      2016 – Functional Safety Certification Program TÜV-Süd Engineer TA1130871949

      1992 – Diploma “Elektrotechnik, digitale Systeme” @ HAW in Hamburg

      1965 – Born somewhere between Hamburg and Lübeck


    Hobbies:  Music, bike, motor bike, FPGAs, RISC-V

Jens Stapelfeldt

AMD Xilinx

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    Jens works as AI Business Development Manager for AMD in Europe. He has more than 25 years of design, training and development experience in the microelectronics and semiconductor industry. Before joining AMD as part of the Xilinx acquisition, Jens hold several positions in technical support and Business Management (Technical Sales Lead Europe at Xilinx, Senor FAE at Texas Instruments 5 years and Business Manager and ARM Architecture Trainer at Doulos 10 years).

    In addition to a degree in microelectronics engineering (FH Oldenburg / Wilhelmshaven) and Uni Manchester UK, Jens completed 2018 a part-time MBA in International Marketing and Business Management with a Master Thesis around AI/ML in the Semiconductor and researched and analysed more than 600 AI/ML start-ups in Europe.

    Happy to connect via LinkedIn and talk about AI/ML and find innovative solution with AMD / Xilinx technology.

    www.linkedin.com/in/jensstapelfeldt


Jim Lewis

SynthWorks Design Inc

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    Jim Lewis has over 30 years of design and teaching experience and is well known within the VHDL community. He is the Chair of the IEEE 1076 VHDL Standards Working Group. He is a co-founder of the Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM) and the chief architect of the packages and methodology. He is an expert VHDL trainer for SynthWorks Design Inc. In his design practice, he has created designs for print servers, networking, fighter jets, video phones, and space craft.

Joachim Müller

Effinix Inc.

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    Upon graduating at TU Braunschweig in 1989, Joachim Müller held positions in ASIC development, sales and marketing, before joining Lattice Semiconductor in October 2000 as Senior FAE. Since October 2021 he is in charge of Field Application, Europe, for Efinix Inc.

Jörg Siemers

Avnet EMG GmbH Silica

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    Coming soon.

Dr. Jörg Pospiech

AVT GmbH Ilmenau

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    He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau, where he also obtained his doctorate in the field of lightning protection. His doctoral work was flanked by patent applications and the development of a new product for the company Dehn SE.

    He was then employed by CE-SYS GmbH Ilmenau as a development engineer for mirror replacement systems with FPGAs. Since 2004 he was in parallel active as managing director of AVT GmbH. He took over this activity completely from 2008 and has also been the sole shareholder since 2020. In the course of this time many customer projects with FPGAs were successfully developed. With the company motto "Solving the impossible" these orders and further research achievements were also always of a high standard.

    Already in 2004 the first small FPGA development kit was manufactured in AVT and the first IP cores were created. With the latest developments we enter a new phase of collaborative DevKit development, which will be presented.

Kamil Rudnicki

Brightelligence sp. z o.o.

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    Kamil is co-owner of Brightelligence sp. z o.o., Poland. Apart from managing the company and projects, he performs research and development in the field of FPGAs across many applications like SDN, SDR, video conversion and HPC. During his 16-year-long FPGA journey, he participated in several high-profile projects. His professional interest focuses on optimization and complex system debugging - "a needle in a haystack."


    He received his MSc from Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2008, and his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 2014. His cientific background helps him succeed in challenging commercial projects. In his free time, he enjoys cycling and horse-riding.


Karl Wachswender

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

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    Karl Wachswender is a Principal System Architect, Industrial at Lattice Semiconductor. In this worldwide role, he leads the development and adoption of Industrial FPGA solutions, including defining requirements for next generation FPGAs, to meet the needs of Lattice’s strong and growing network of Industrial customers. Karl also works closely with Lattice channel and ecosystem partners to help our customers get the most out of their Lattice-based designs. 

    Karl brings more than 30 years of Industrial segment experience to this role, including over 20 years in Industrial FPGAs. Before joining Lattice in October 2021, he was a Principal System Architect at Intel (formerly Altera Corp.), focused on Industrial solutions. He also previously held technical roles at multiple technology distribution companies. 

    Karl holds Engineering degrees from Technische Universitat Vienna and Hohere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Vienna 22. 

Dr. Karsten Trott

AMD Xilinx

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    Karsten is a Sr. Field Application Engineer at AMD/Xilinx with current focus on Automotive customers. He holds a PhD in analogue chip design and worked for high level RTL compiler startup, automotive consultant companies with focus on functional safety in drive-by-wire systems as well as for a TV-chip supplier company prior to joining Xilinx 16 years ago. He has a wide knowledge in hardware and software development with focus on system approach and functional safety.

Klaus Kohl-Schöpe

Arrow Central Europe GmbH

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    to follow shortly

Lionel Rivière

eShard | Solutions for Cybersecurity

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    to follow shortly

Marco Höfle

Avnet EMG GmbH Silica

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    Marco Höfle, born in 1978, lives with his family in Switzerland and is employed by Avnet Silica. He supports customers in southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria. His tasks include customer consulting, customer-specific trainings as well as customer support in their development with Xilinx products.

    The Big "X" runs through his entire professional career, starting with his diploma thesis, technical support at Xilinx in Dublin, development management in an engineering office and since May 2018 as Embedded Specialist Xilinx SoC at Avnet Silica.


Mark Frost

Intel Corporation

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    Mark is the FPGA Security and Configuration Technical Marketing Manager within Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group (previously Altera). Within this role Mark liaises between customers, sales and engineering teams worldwide for security, configuration and SEU topics, and works to create market awareness of Intel’s portfolio. 

    During his 11 years with Intel he has held roles in both marketing and as a field application engineer covering programmable technology. Prior to Intel, Mark had worked for over 15 years in a variety of engineering roles, spanning telecommunications through to designing instruments for ESA satellites. Mark has a BEng in Electrical Engineering from the University of Plymouth.

Martin Kellermann

Microchip Technology GmbH

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    Martin Kellermann is a Marketing Manager at Microchip Technology GmbH, Munich. Earlier he was a Staff Field Application Engineer at Xilinx. He is a seasoned FPGA and SoC professional with a track record of successful customer and project engagements in the industrial, automotive, and data-center domains. He possesses a strong background in high-speed serial data transmission, signal integrity and hardware debugging which helped numerous customers finish their designs successfully. He has also taught courses covering industrial applications and hardware concepts. Martin is a graduate of the Landshut University of Applied Sciences.

Masashi Tayama

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

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    Masashi Tayama is a Principal Applications Engineer at Lattice Semiconductor.

    After developing video and MIPI related IPs and reference designs,  Masashi has been working on customer designs to enable high performance and lower power solutions for client AI segments in recent years. 


Matthias Schaffland

Sensor to Image GmbH

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    Matthias Schaffland studied electrical engineering at the Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences. After some time at an IT consulting company, he joined Sensor to Image. Here he was involved in the development of customer-specific image processing components and IP cores and in the development of the machine vision standards GigE Vision, USB3Vision and CoaXPress. He is currently working as a product specialist for IP cores and advises customers with the use of the IP in their applications.

Michael Freitag

YAGEO Corporation

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    Working for KEMET Electronics since 2004 Michael has been in various positions in Sales, business development and European technical leadership latest before he changed in 2017 to enhance the product management team for products of the acquired Japanese TOKIN Corporation now called magnetics, sensors and actuator business group which became recently part of the Yageo Corporation. Part of the  product portfolio is focused on special solutions for EMI attenuation and also provides products for very high frequency challenges.

Mustafa Celik

Arrow Central Europe GmbH

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    to follow shortly

Myrtle Shah

Heidelberg University - ZITI

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    Myrtle is the maintainer of the open source nextpnr place-and-route tool, providing an alternative flow for several commercial FPGA families with thousands of users worldwide.


    After some time working as a contractor, they are currently a researcher and PhD student at Heidelberg University, working on further developing the opportunities for open infrastructure in the FPGA ecosystem.


Nikolai Krassin

PLC2 GmbH

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    Nikolai studied Embedded Systems Engineering in Freiburg. 

    He's been working as a Trainer at PLC2 since 2010 for the following topics:

    - VHDL

    - FPGA Architecture / Design Techniques

    - Vivado 

    - Timing Constraints

    - Easy Start FPGA

    Developing projects using FPGAs, MPSoCs and VHDL.


Oliver Bründler

Enclustra GmbH

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    Expert in FPGA/SoC design with 13 years of experience in digital signal and video processing on FPGA. Received a BSc degree in microelectronics in 2009 from the technical college FHNW, Switzerland. Worked at Paul Scherrer research institute in Switzerland, developing electronics for particle accelerators. Currently at Enclustra, where he spent 11 years as an FPGA/SoC system designer and project manager, working on customer design projects.

Dr. Oliver Kühlert

SYSGO GmbH

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    Dr. Oliver Kühlert rejoined SYSGO in 2019 as Technical Product Marketing Manager. Since 2022 he is responsible for the SYSGO Innovation Lab. Oliver Kühlert has a strong background on software development and architecture and was responsible for the first version of the PikeOS System Software. Before returning to SYSGO, he was head of device software development at AESKU.Systems, Wendelsheim.

    Oliver Kühlert studied at the Philipps University in Marburg and the MPI-K in Heidelberg, and holds a PhD in Physics.


Oren Hollander

 HandsOn Training Inc.

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    Oren Hollander has over 20 years of FPGA, ARM, Security design & training experience.

    Oren is an Intel, ARM, NXP, ST, NewAE, eShard, and Microchip authorized trainer.

    Oren trained over the years thousands of engineers around the world in FPGA design, Arm architecture, security for Embedded systems & FPGA security.

    He trains the top noche silicon vendors such as Apple, Samsung, Marvell, NXP, Intel, Broadcom, Microchip to name a few, so his knowledge is always one step ahead of the general market.

    Oren specialized in the military field as well, and works as senior consultant to the top notch military companies in Israel and abroad.

    Oren works closely with the silicon vendors and security researchers to bring the latest and greatest know-how and experience to the market.

Patrice Brossard

 Future Electronics S.A

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    After obtaining degree at the French “Paris Orsay University”, I spend almost 10 years designing ASIC at the company Bull then 2 years at a car manufacturer working on automotive electronic network.

    Since the years 2000, I’m working in the electronics component distribution environment. I have been working now for more than 15 years at Future Electronics supporting and promoting FPGA technologies with a new role of Vertical Segment Manager in charge of Programmable Logic for 3 years now.

    Passionate about new electronic technologies and always be on the lookout for the needs of the new applications in order to address the markets of the future.

Patrick Lehmann

 PLC2 GmbH

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    Patrick Lehmann studied computer science at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He started to teach computer engineering and computer architecture as a tutor. Later on, he specialized in digital design, FPGA technology, and high-speed communication solutions like Serial-ATA, Gigabit Ethernet, or PCI Express. He is now sharing his gained knowledge in labs, research articles, and on social platforms. His research work focused on in-memory database systems, the Serial-ATA protocol implementation and embedding FPGAs into a Cloud infrastructure.


    Since 2017, Patrick Lehman is working for PLC2 GmbH as a trainer in the topics of VHDL, OSVVM, FPGA technology as well as PCI Express. In cooperation with PLC2 Design GmbH, he is a developer and team leader in FPGA design projects.


    Mr. Lehmann is one of the developers and maintainers of The PoC-Library, a platform and vendor independent open source IP core library. He is also a contributor to the GHDL project, a free VHDL simulator. In 2016, he started an initiative called "Open Source VHDL Group", whose aim is a free collection of VHDL packages. As part of other open source projects, he is steadily promoting the integration of EDA tool and design flows into a collaborative Git environment.


    Mr. Lehmann is active in the IEEE P1076 "VHDL Analysis and Standardization Group" since 2014. He detailed and wrote major parts of the language changes for the upcoming VHDL-2018 revision. In 2017, he became an IEEE Standards Association member and was announced vice-chair of the IEEE P1076 working group. In this current work, he is working together with IEEE to release all VHDL language packages as open source, as well as creating a new collaborative, open source publishing flow in IEEE.

Patrick Urban

Cologne Chip AG

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    Patrick Urban studied applied mathematics and informatics at FH Aachen and computer engineering with specialization in networked and embedded systems at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

    Since 2012, he is part of the engineering team at Cologne Chip AG and contributes to their latest development, the GateMate FPGA family. In addition to his work in development and technical support, he is the contact person for open source tools.


Perttu Saarela

Xiphera Ltd.

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    Mr. Perttu Saarela has a M.Sc. Tech. in Mathematics from Aalto University. He is working as a cryptographic engineer at Xiphera researching, desiging, and developing cryptographic IP cores. His background in mathematics gives him the tools to succeed in the field of post-quantum cryptography."

Philipp Keydel

Synogate

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    has over 10 years of experience with software development in the roles of project lead/producer, program manager, quality assurance manager, international operations manager as well as developer and analyst. He leads Synogate’s business development activities, leveraging his experience in the computer games and financial industry, ranging from small start-ups to large banks over several continents. A fully qualified lawyer, he also takes care of legal matters. Outside of the technical areas, his interests lie with media, art, and intercultural communication.

Satheesh Chellappan

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

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    Lattice Semiconductor is a low power programmable leader, providing FPGA devices and AI solutions for various market segment. Satheesh Chellappan is a Distinguished System Architect focusing on AI Systems mainly in Computer Vision solutions for Client and IOT market segments.

Scott Senst

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation

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    Scott Senst is a Senior Director in the software engineering organization at Achronix Semiconductor with 23+ years of FPGA and EDA tools development experience.  Scott joined Achronix over 16 years ago, and helps drive a wide variety of projects throughout the company, including User Interface Development, Device Modeling and Libraries, IP Configuration, Bitstream Generation, FPGA and eFPGA HW architecture, Platform Infrastructure, etc.  Before joining Achronix, Scott worked at LSI Logic to help define, build, and test EDA tools from the ground up (RapidWorx Design Suite).  Prior to that, Scott started his career at IBM where he worked on network processors and the Cell processor for the Sony Playstation 3.

Selmar Meijer

 Xiphera Ltd

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    Selmar is the Regional Sales Manager for Xiphera for Northwestern Europe. In this role, he is responsible for growing Xiphera’s business by providing security solutions and Intellectual Property (IP) cores for FPGAs and ASICs to enable high security, performance, and agility in the semiconductor, IoT/IIoT, data center, defense,  communications, and automotive markets.

Simon Longcroft

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation

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    Simon Longcroft brings over 30 years of semiconductor design and experience to the table. As Senior Technical Architect, Simon helps Achronix customers design initial frameworks and chip architecture and helps guide the entire delivery process from concept implementation. Prior to Achronix, Simon was head of firmware/compression at Ericsson Television, where he led one of the largest FPGA design teams in Europe. As one of the leading Agile experts in the semiconductor industry, Simon led more than 200 Ericsson engineers through the transition process to Scrum- and Agile methodologies. Earlier in his career, he received the Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement – one of the highest technological honors in the United Kingdom. He also holds multiple patents in the field of special-temporal processing. 

    Simon holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bath.


Sören Heß

 PLC2 Design GmbH

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    CTO of PLC2 Design GmbH

    Agile leader with strong background in FPGA based design and architecture. Shaping designs and teams around edge based robotics systems, data processing incl. high-speed data acquisition, edge based AI inference and ROS methodologies using FPGA based technology. Proven lecturer for acceleration architecture, AI and Robotics in national and international context. Skilled advisor for leadership and stressmanagement (incl. Shinrin Yoku).



Stanislaw Klinke

 EBV Elektronik GmbH & Co. KG

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    Graduate engineer, employed for more than 20 years in various positions in the semiconductor industry.

    He gained his experience as ASIC and FPGA developer while working on projects for consumer and industrial applications.

    Since 2012 working as Field Application Engineer at EBV Elektronik.

    Besides various tasks in the field of high-end processing, he focuses especially on projects in the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence. 

Stefan Unrein

PLC2 Design GmbH 

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    Stefan has studied Electrical Engineering/ Information Technology in University of applied Science Offenburg. In his Master Thesis at PLC2 GmbH he created a high-speed UDP-Ethernet IP Core. After his Thesis he stayed at PLC2 and is here working as FPGA Developer specialized in Multi-Gigabit Transceivers and High-Speed Protocols like PCIe and Multigigabit Ethernet. Since then he had the technical project lead for several Customer projects.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Wallentowitz

Munich University of Applied Sciences

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    Stefan is a long term advocate of Open Source Silicon. He has worked on several projects of Open Source IP blocks and Open Source EDA tools. He can follow his passion in research at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences today. Beside this he has an active role in the advocacy and ecosystem of RISC-V in Europe and represents the community individuals in the RISC-V Board of Directors.

Szabolcs Bondor

Arrow Central Europe GmbH

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    Szabolcs Bondor is the FPGA-specialized Application Engineer at Arrow Electronics' Engineering Solutions Center for more than 8 years.

    Within this role, he provides technical support for the latest, FPGA-based custom solutions to R&D engineers from a wide range of European customers.

Thomas Kuhn

HTV Halbleiter-Test & Vertriebs-GmbH

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    2002-2008 Electrical engineering studies at the Technical University of Darmstadt 

    2008-2011 Research assistant at the Technischen Universität Darmstadt

    2011-2012 Semiconductor test at HTV GmbH Bensheim

    Since 2012 Management assistant at HTV GmbH Bensheim


    Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Kuhn has been management assistant at HTV GmbH Bensheim for 11 years. 

    In this function, he regularly conducts extensive research projects in the field of analytics and testing of electronic components and assembled electronics.

    In the field of FPGA technology, Mr. Kuhn leads research projects in the area of IT security. These include topics such as implementation of cryptographic algorithms with VHDL, secure loading of authenticated bit streams with partial reconfiguration and the construction of demonstrators.

    Mr. Kuhn is head of the HTV Academy and is a member of national and international working groups in the field of EEE components.

Thomas Zerrer

Smartlogic GmbH 

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    Born 1967

    studied electronic engineering and received a „Dipl. Ing“ degree from the University of Stuttgart in 1994

    Active in the field of PCI and PCI Express since 2002

    Founded Smartlogic GmbH in 2005 as owner and CEO.

    Main activity is the definition and development of DMA IP Cores




Timo Osterkamp

Sokratel Kommunikations- und Datensysteme GmbH

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    Timo completed his master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany. During his academic tenure, he also served as a member of the Software Engineering group until 2020. In this role, he specialized in model-driven software development for embedded systems with a primary focus on microcontrollers.

    Currently, Timo is employed as an Embedded Software Engineer at Sokratel, located in Bochum, Germany. He is the lead developer of an engineering team focusing on model-driven development for complex embedded systems


Tomas Hudson

Monolithic Power Systems MPS

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    Applications Engineer at Monolithic Power Systems

Tomasz Iwański

Arrow Electronics Poland Sp. z o.o.

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    Tomasz Iwański is FPGA Technology Field Application Engineer covering Eastern Europe and Turkey. Before joining ARROW as FPGA FAE in 2021, he worked in NOKIA since 2018 as FPGA Design Engineer for 5G products, in APTIV since 2017 as RADAR Engineer for Automotive ADAS and since 2015 in Polish company ASTOR where he started his professional career as Project Engineer for industrial robotics and automation.

Tom Richter

 The MathWorks GmbH

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    Tom Richter joined MathWorks in Germany 2011 and worked 10 years as a Training Engineer for Model Based Design, Signal Processing, Communications, and Code Generation. With a strong focus on ASIC and FPGA design, he also developed training courses for HDL code generation and HW/SW co-design.

    Since 2021, Tom works as an Application Engineering Specialist for HDL and System-on-Chip.

    Tom has a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Ulster in Belfast and a Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg.


Ugur Konuk

Future Electronics

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    I obtained the B.Sc. degree from Middle East Technical University (METU) Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in 2012. After my graduation, I started to work as an Digital Design Engineer and participated in various FPGA designs at Aselsan Inc., a leading defense company in Turkey. Meanwhile, I continued my academic studies and obtained the M.Sc. degree the same department in 2015. In 2017, I joined Future Electronics as FPGA Specialist covering Eastern Europe region. In 2018, my responsibilities expanded to include the High End product portfolio, as the FPGA & High End Specialist for Future Electronics covering Eastern Europe region.

Ulrich Langenbach

Missing Link Electronic

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    Ulrich Langenbach is a Computer Engineer and team leader designing high performance networked embedded systems. His expertise includes network protocols and heterogeneous systems comprising CPU, FPGAs and other accelerators.  Ulrich received his Dipl.-Ing. in computer engineering from TU-Berlin and focuses on FPGA based applications. He co-authored several publications and patents. Currently, he is with Missing Link Electronics, Germany.

Valerio Tenace

Rapid Silicon Inc.

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    Valerio works as a consultant for Rapid Silicon, where he leads a team focused on developing cutting-edge AI technologies for FPGAs. He holds a Ph.D. in Information and Systems Engineering.

Wolfgang Loewer

El Camino GmbH

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    Wolfgang Loewer is CTO and Co-Founder of El Camino GmbH. After graduating from the Munich University of Applied Science he started his career as Field Applications Engineer at Altera in 1991. He then Co-Founded El Camino as a design house for programmable logic in 1999 which soon after also specialized in functional verification of ASIC designs.

    Wolfgang Loewer has over 30 years of design, consulting and teaching experience in FGPA development and ASIC verification.

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