Rafael Calcada
Associate Software Engineer
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Calcada is an associate software engineer with nine years of experience building EDA tools and digital design IP, currently developing quality-assurance software for integrated circuit verification at Siemens EDA in Eindhoven. He combines C/C++ and Python expertise with a deep practical knowledge of chip-design formats and standards such as Verilog, Liberty, LEF/DEF, GDSII, and SPICE. Prior roles include R&D work on ultra-low-power backscatter wireless IP and hands-on digital design, giving him cross-domain fluency between hardware description and verification tooling. Rafael is also the creator and maintainer of RVX, an open-source RISC-V microcontroller core, reflecting his commitment to reproducible hardware design and community-driven projects. Comfortable working across research and product contexts, he brings a pragmatic engineer’s mindset and a track record of turning complex design rules into automated, reliable checks.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese, Dutch
Github Skills (30)
uart10
cpu10
risc-v10
spi10
microcontroller10
gnu-toolchain10
i2c10
gpio10
asic10
fpga10
system-on-chip10
processor10
mcu9
logic8
wireless7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelcalcada/rvx
May 2020 - Dec 2022
RISC-V microcontroller for embedded, FPGA and ASIC applications
Contributions:3 releases, 27 reviews, 205 commits in 2 years 7 months
asicfpgamicrocontrollerrisc-vrv32i
rafaelcalcada/aigbdd
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:43 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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