Felix Schneider
Doktorand at Fachhochschule Dortmund
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolFelix Schneider is a doctoral researcher in integrated digital and mixed-signal circuits with six years of experience spanning model-based design, circuit layout, and digital signal processing. Based in Bochum, he combines academic research at Fachhochschule Dortmund with practical Cadence and Synopsys flow expertise to develop robust IC solutions. His background in mechatronics (B.Eng.) and a top-rated M.Sc. in electrical engineering underpin a hands-on approach to digital integrated circuit design. Beyond academia, he contributes to the LLVM project’s MLIR ecosystem, improving integer-range analysis and extending support for quantized operators—an uncommon cross-domain bridge between compiler infrastructure and hardware design. Colleagues know him for translating complex signal-processing requirements into verifiable silicon-oriented implementations.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronik, 1,7, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronik, 1,7 at Hochschule Bochum - Bochum University of Applied Sciences
German, English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
compiler-design10
multilevel10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
intermediate10
llvm10
optimization9
testing9
test-framework9
tensorflow7
operation7
tensor7
tensorrt7
quantization6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 73 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributes to the MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) project, specifically focusing on the `arith` dialect and integer range optimizations. They addressed bugs in the range inference for `arith.shl` operations and extended the testing framework to support arbitrary integer types. Further contributions include implementing no-wrap flags in inference, and fixing issues with loop bounds in the IntegerRangeAnalysis. The user also adapted the `test.reflect_bounds` test Op to use explicit signed and unsigned representation and added a quantized conv2d operator.
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
ubfx/siliconcompiler
Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
A modular build system for hardware
Contributions:61 pushes, 16 branches in 5 months
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