Henrik Møller Pedersen - ASIC Consultant

Q: Where is Henrik based?

Henrik is based in Eindhoven, Netherlands .

Q: What languages does Henrik speak?

Henrik speaks the following languages: Danish (Native), English (Advanced), German (Elementary), French (Elementary) .

Q: How many years of experience does Henrik have?

Henrik has at least 18 years of experience. During this time, Henrik has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 9 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 2 years . Note that Henrik may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Henrik's latest experience?

Henrik's most recent position is ASIC Consultant at Imec .

Q: What companies has Henrik worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Henrik has worked for Imec , TII , and imec – Holst Centre .

Q: Which industries is Henrik most experienced in?

Henrik is most experienced in industries like Manufacturing , Telecommunication , and Information Technology (IT) . Henrik also has some experience in Healthcare .

Q: Which business areas is Henrik most experienced in?

Henrik is most experienced in business areas like Product Development , Quality Assurance (QA) , and Research and Development (R&D) .

Q: Which industries has Henrik worked in recently?

Henrik has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT) and Manufacturing .

Q: Which business areas has Henrik worked in recently?

Henrik has recently worked in business areas like Product Development , Quality Assurance (QA) , and Research and Development (R&D) .

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Experience

Jul 2024 - Present

1 year 8 months

ASIC Consultant

Imec

Setup vManager flow within IMEC with Jenkins Plugin
vPlan, constraint-random verification, coverage, CRF regressions for IMEC Gen4 UWB modem
Setup Stratus high level synthesis flow within IMEC
Setup GitHub CI/CL flow for UWB
IEEE 802.15.4a HRP UWB modem improvements: re-architecture and completely rewritten in SystemC, implemented with high level synthesis; quantization and resource-sharing refactor delivering 1/4 of the Gen4 size (area) while improving PER
Soft-decision Viterbi (6-bit) with traceback depth 12; survivor memory and fixed-point widths tuned for robustness and latency using Matlab to Stratus flow
Symbol timing and acquisition refined with Kalman filter and demodulator re-architecture
Verification lead of the Seneca project in the last 2 months before tape-out

Jul 2022 - Jul 2024

2 years 1 month

Hybrid

Lead Engineer

TII

Design and verification/validation of true random number generator using a generalised ring oscillator and a Linear Hybrid Cellular Automata
HLS design and verification of AES accelerator
AES-GCM design and verification with minimalistic area and masked leakage; lab validation of side-channel leakage (ChipWhisperer)
Xilinx SoC implementation with MicroBlaze platform and secure IP peripherals
Constraint-random verification and SoC design of GF 22 nm ASIC for side-channel analysis
Created Cadence Genus synthesis and Conformal flow; UPF 2.1 power-aware RTL simulations and GLS
Principal reviewer of RTL and UVM verification framework of cryptographic hardware library

Nov 2020 - Jul 2022

1 year 9 months

Senior Principal ASIC Specialist Consultant

imec – Holst Centre

UWB ASIC: design and verification of sample-rate converters, de-spreaders, and Viterbi decoders; top-level verification and schedule adherence
DARE6 radiation IP: clock-tree re-architecture; internal SRAM timing engines; reliability/performance analysis on imec IC-link DARE65 nm platform

May 2020 - Nov 2020

7 months

ASIC Verification Consultant

Xilinx

5G NR PRACH UVM verification: test plan, sequences, constraint-random verification, coverage, CRF regressions
Prepared written summaries of simulations and coverage analysis; achieved 100% functional and assertion coverage

Mar 2018 - Mar 2020

2 years 1 month

Stockholm, Sweden

Verification Lead Consultant

Ericsson

Shark/Radon/Krypton 5G control subsystems: introduced CRV techniques; significant improvements in functional and code coverage
Maintained functional coverage groups and UVM scoreboards; streamlined vManager vPlan regressions (Hansoft Scrum)

Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

1 year 1 month

Leuven, Belgium

Expert ASIC Consultant

Huawei Technologies

Top-level verification of 5G Direct Mode TX; UVM register-layer testbench (cycle and bit-accurate versus C++ reference); Jenkins CI
Re-architected digital up-sampling chain and clock-tree resulting in ~50% power reduction; HLS synthesis of DPD; formal verification of IP blocks

Sep 2015 - Mar 2017

1 year 7 months

Oxford, United Kingdom

Senior Principal ASIC Specialist Consultant

Frontier & EnSilica

ARM Cortex-M3 mixed-signal SoC (battery charger): target IC spec, architecture design spec, IP selection; area and power tracking; DFT strategy
NFC-powered smart card SoC (Cadence BBE16EP DSP): requirements, memory optimization, clock-gating and DVFS options; Jenkins CI; FPGA prototyping
Sensium Healthcare WBAN 802.15.6 SoC: RTL for PMU, clock, AES-CCM, security engine, low-power heart-rate accelerator; SRAM arbitration; APB/ADC/RF interfaces

Dec 2013 - Sep 2015

1 year 10 months

Manchester, United Kingdom

Principal Engineer

Micron Technology

PCIe-connected AHCI/NVMe SSD virtualization; NVMe error management and high-availability architecture
Verification of AHCI virtualization layers on FPGA; advanced NVMe SSD controller design

Nov 2007 - Dec 2013

6 years 2 months

Copenhagen, Denmark

Senior ASIC Specialist

Nokia/Renesas

Wireless Modem SoC front-end tech lead (GSM, LTE, 3G, DigRF); Viterbi decoders (enhanced SISO and list); low-power optimizations
Power estimation and reduction (PowerTheater, PowerArtist); UPF power-aware simulations (VCS); Jenkins test automation; Certitude testbench and suite qualification
Synopsys flow (DC, PrimeTime, PX) and Magma (Conformal, Blast); clock-tree optimization and power-gating; multi-site coordination

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Manufacturing (12.5 years), Telecommunication (9 years), Information Technology (4 years), and Healthcare (1.5 years).

Manufacturing

Telecommunication

Information Technology

Healthcare

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Product Development (18 years), Quality Assurance (16.5 years), and Research and Development (7 years).

Product Development

Quality Assurance

Research and Development

Summary

Strong technical expertise in lead, architecture, design and verification tasks of ASIC and FPGA design products in multicultural teams and international companies. I have in-depth knowledge of GSM/3G/LTE/5G and Ultra Wide Band standards and implementation as well as Ultrasonic/Radar designs. Outstanding skills in problem analysis and capability development. Well-versed in supervising cross-functional teams and completing first-time-right ASIC tape-outs.

Extensive experience in SoC and VLSI design and IP block implementation including high level synthesis.

Instrumental in managing ASIC and verification requirements resulting in high-quality verification closure with vManager or VC Execution Manager in a UVM framework. Excellent skills in establishing regression testing flows and verification plan development.

Verification experience with SystemVerilog / UVM workflow / formal verification / UPF power aware verification / gate level simulation / Certitude Functional Qualification System. Verification methods applied for advanced mixed signal SoC projects. Design and verification process control, method development, verification visibility and development of project KPIs.

I am proactive, I have attention to detail and timely execution. I am looking forward to working with technology driven companies.

Skills

Asic & Fpga Design Solutions
Signal Processing Algorithms
Design For Test (Dft)
System-on-chip (Soc) Designs
Matlab, Simulink; Field Ii (Ultrasound Simulation)
Verilog, Vhdl, Systemverilog; C, C++, Lisp; Perl, Python, Tcl, Shell
System Architecture Verification; Requirement Management
Power Analysis & Optimisation; Low Power Design Techniques; Upf Power-aware Verification
Jenkins / Github Continuous Integration; Git/cvs/pcvs/svn
Stratix; Genus; Conformal; Jaspergold; Vmanager; Xcelium/vcs/questa Sim
Interfaces: Pcie, Digrf, Mipi, I2c, Spi; Amba Axi/axis/apb/ahb, Cpri …
High Level Synthesis (Hls); Uvm & Formal Verification

Languages

Danish

Native

English

Advanced

German

Elementary

French

Elementary

Education

DTU

M.Sc., Synthetic Aperture Radiometer · Synthetic Aperture Radiometer · Lyngby, Denmark

Profile

Created

February 2026

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Where is Henrik based?

Henrik is based in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

What languages does Henrik speak?

Henrik speaks the following languages: Danish (Native), English (Advanced), German (Elementary), French (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Henrik have?

Henrik has at least 18 years of experience. During this time, Henrik has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 9 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years. Note that Henrik may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Henrik be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Henrik would be well-suited for roles such as: ASIC Consultant, Lead Engineer, Senior Principal ASIC Specialist Consultant.

What is Henrik's latest experience?

Henrik's most recent position is ASIC Consultant at Imec.

What companies has Henrik worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Henrik has worked for Imec, TII, and imec – Holst Centre.

Which industries is Henrik most experienced in?

Henrik is most experienced in industries like Manufacturing, Telecommunication, and Information Technology (IT). Henrik also has some experience in Healthcare.

Which business areas is Henrik most experienced in?

Henrik is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Research and Development (R&D).

Which industries has Henrik worked in recently?

Henrik has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT) and Manufacturing.

Which business areas has Henrik worked in recently?

Henrik has recently worked in business areas like Product Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Research and Development (R&D).

What is Henrik's education?

Henrik holds a Master in Synthetic Aperture Radiometer from DTU.

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