Michael Tempelmeier
FPGA Engineer at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Tempelmeier is an FPGA engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in security-focused embedded systems and R&D, currently working at Giesecke+Devrient. He holds advanced degrees from TUM and is completing doctoral work in electrical engineering, blending deep academic research with practical product development. Michael has contributed to high-profile open-source silicon security work such as OpenTitan—implementing sparse FSM encoding, a double-LFSR primitive to mitigate fault injection, and lifecycle hardening for KMAC—which highlights his focus on hardware security and fault resilience. He also teaches security for embedded systems at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, preparing future leaders to tackle real-world device threats. Known for combining rigorous formal thinking with pragmatic engineering, he brings both research credibility and production-grade delivery to secure silicon and FPGA projects.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor-Ingenieur Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Doktor-Ingenieur Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik at Technical University of Munich
German, English, French
Github Skills (6)
it-security10
verilog10
embedded10
sys10
security10
hardware-designs9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lowRISC/opentitan
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:158 reviews, 39 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:The user, Michael Tempelmeier, primarily focused on improving the OpenTitan project's kmac module. Their contributions include implementing sparse encoding for various Finite State Machines (FSMs) within the kmac component, enhancing security. They introduced the `prim_double_lfsr` primitive to guard against fault injection attacks and integrated counters for various components. Furthermore, the user added life cycle escalation for the same component.
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m-temp/ot-sca
Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
Side-channel analysis setup for OpenTitan
Contributions:80 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 5 months
side-channel
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