Christian Herber
European Senior Principal RISC-V Architect at NXP Semiconductors
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Herber is a European Senior Principal RISC-V Architect at NXP Semiconductors with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from TUM and four years in senior RISC-V leadership roles backed by a decade-plus career in embedded systems and networking. He leads RISC-V representation at industry bodies, drove the CV-X-IF coprocessor interface spec at OpenHW Group, and orchestrates cross-European collaboration to align processor, tooling, and software strategies. Prior to focusing on RISC-V he owned software roadmaps for Ethernet products—delivering SDKs, TSN stacks, functional-safety drivers and multi-site development pipelines for Linux, AUTOSAR and bare-metal targets. Based in Hamburg, he blends deep academic research experience in virtualization and multi-core safety-critical systems with pragmatic product delivery, making him adept at translating standards and research into deployable silicon and software. An uncommon strength is his track record of shepherding both standardization efforts and hands-on SDK/device driver projects, bridging ecosystem-level influence with implementation detail.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Technical University of Munich
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (69)
controller10
simulator10
computer-architecture10
risc10
32-bit10
emc10
modular10
interrupt10
instruction-set10
systemverilog10
risc-v10
verification10
spike10
bit10
uvm10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
riscv/riscv-zilsd
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Zilsd (Load/Store Pair for RV32) Fast-Track Extension
Contributions:28 reviews, 45 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 1 month
openhwgroup/core-v-xif
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
RISC-V eXtension interface that provides a generalized framework suitable to implement custom coprocessors and ISA extensions
Contributions:4 releases, 81 reviews, 123 PRs in 1 year 3 months
risc-visariscv32riscextensions
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