I offer mainly development services or support for FPGA applications in the industrial sector
Development of electronic modules and firmware for various controller families
Development support and consulting in FPGA development
Successfully completed projects with different customers:
FPGA-based EtherCAT interface, hardware and software development
Multi-camera interface (4 streams) with USB 3.0 connection
FPGA emulation to support an ASIC development
Test software based on an ARM Cortex-M0 with C/C++
Setup of an ASIC test system for verification
Test software for verification with Python
Support during ASIC commissioning
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
4 years
Munich, Germany
Application Engineer
Intel Deutschland GmbH
Consulting for industrial customers throughout Germany on all technical and commercial questions regarding Intel FPGA products
Jan 2008 - Dec 2017
10 years
Burgwedel, Germany
Application Engineer
EBV Elektronik GmbH
Consulting customers on all technical and commercial questions regarding FPGA products
Responsible for a specific number of key customers and for evaluating new customers for potential commercial opportunities
Participation in regular training on new products and market segments
Jan 2002 - Dec 2008
7 years
Burgwedel, Germany
Application Engineer
EBV Elektronik GmbH
Advising customers on product selection and supporting them during development phases, series production, and all arising issues
Developing extensive knowledge of components from various manufacturers in control solutions, embedded systems, power supply concepts, and individual semiconductor components
Advising customers on applications in the industrial and automotive markets
Jan 1999 - Dec 2002
4 years
Bremen, Germany
Development Engineer
Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH
Development of components for combat simulation applications
Development of application software
Adapting software to the real-time kernel
Technical overall responsibility for the development of a Personal Communication Unit
Jan 1993 - Dec 1999
7 years
Bremen, Germany
Development Engineer
Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH
System and hardware design of a graphics card and ASIC development for the rendering ASIC of the new visual system DISI5
Conceptual development of functional blocks and their implementation in VHDL
Conceptual development and system design of a successor visual system based on the latest chip technologies
Jan 1990 - Dec 1993
4 years
Bremen, Germany
Development Engineer
Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH
Further development of the DISI3 visual system into a three-channel system
Development of additional hardware components for the DISI3 visual system series
Jan 1985 - Dec 1990
6 years
Bremen, Germany
Development Engineer
Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH
Development in the DISI3 project of the hardware required for a graphics card based on 32-bit bit-slice technology
Development of image generation algorithms using microcode programming
Responsibility for the production readiness of devices and implementation of required software for an online test and fault detection system
Jan 1983 - Dec 1985
3 years
Mannheim, Germany
Development Engineer
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
Development of a complex computer board based on the PDP-11 chip family for a portable test and fault detection system (PDAG)
Jan 1981 - Dec 1983
3 years
Mannheim, Germany
Development Engineer
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
Development of components for process data processing systems, such as mass storage based on bubble memory and programming systems for EPROM memory chips
Summary
System design
ASIC/FPGA design (VHDL) and verification
Digital hardware development
Embedded system hardware design
Microcontroller programming
System implementation and production ramp-up
Knowledge of C/C++, Python, JavaScript and assembly
Development on Linux/Windows
Many years of experience in customer support
Extensive technical consulting skills
Ability to work independently
Good team player
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Oct 1973 - Jun 1980
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Dipl.-Ing., Information Processing Technologies · Electrical Engineering · Karlsruhe, Germany
Helmholtz High School in Heidelberg
General university entrance qualification · Heidelberg, Germany