Frans Skarman
Postdoctoral Researcher at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
Linköping, Sweden
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Top SchoolFrans Skarman is a postdoctoral researcher and embedded systems engineer with 12 years of experience building open-source development tools for FPGAs, ASICs, and microcontrollers. He led research and development on spade-lang.org, a modern hardware description language born from his PhD work at Linköping University, and now continues that trajectory at Hochschule München. An active contributor to embedded Rust ecosystems, he implemented RTC support and thorough documentation for the stm32f1xx-hal, bridging low-level firmware with accessible examples. Based in Linköping, Sweden, Frans blends academic rigor with practical engineering—favoring embedded Rust and publishing many personal projects on GitLab that reveal a hands-on, tool-building mindset beyond his publications.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Linköping University
Github Skills (7)
embedded10
rust10
stm10
microcontroller10
sys10
rtc10
hal10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
stm32-rs/stm32f1xx-hal
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
A Rust embedded-hal HAL impl for the STM32F1 family based on japarics stm32f103xx-hal
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 73 commits, 140 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Frans primarily contributed to the implementation of real-time clock (RTC) functionality within the STM32F1 HAL library. This involved adding support for RTC initialization, setting the time and alarm, and implementing interrupt handling for seconds and alarms. They also provided usage examples and documentation to help users integrate the RTC features. Additionally, the user made documentation and example improvements.
stlinkruststm32f1embedded-rustembedded
lithekod/bylaws
May 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 branch in 3 years
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