Johan Klockars
Hardware Engineer at Cobham Gaisler
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Klockars is a seasoned hardware engineer and computer architect with 24 years of experience building close-to-the-metal systems, currently focused on RISC-V CPU architecture at Cobham Gaisler. His background spans full-custom ASIC research, FPGA image-processing pipelines, BSP and device driver development across multiple OSes, and embedded Wi‑Fi and motor control firmware. Johan has a strong track record of moving between silicon, firmware and software—implementing VHDL pipelines, low-level boot code and real-time systems—bringing both academic rigor from PhD work on CMOS clocking and practical product experience. He has consulted on advanced camera platforms and telecom test systems and previously contributed to compiler-related and PCI/USB device driver work. A long-time tinkerer, he’s maintained deep retro-hardware interests (Atari Falcon) that reflect a lifelong curiosity about system internals. Based in Gothenburg, he blends research-grade thinking with hands-on delivery in safety- and performance-critical domains.
24 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science & Engineering, Masters, Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers tekniska högskola
English, Swedish, german(somewhat)
Github Skills (29)
simulator8
gcc7
risc7
spike7
protect6
fpga6
xilinx6
vhdl6
hardware6
shadow6
integrity5
computer-architecture5
simulation5
embedded-software4
control-flow4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jklockars/fVDI_from_0.958
Oct 2001 - Jan 2013
Contributions:416 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 years 4 months
jklockars/riscv
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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