Simon Burkhardt
R&D Engineer (FPGA) at Keysight Technologies
Solothurn, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSimon Burkhardt is an FPGA-focused R&D engineer from Switzerland with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping embedded systems across industry and academia. He blends deep VHDL/FPGA expertise (high-speed GTY transceivers, Aurora protocols) with embedded C and system-level DSP work, having moved from prototyping and electronics repair to research and commercial product development. His background spans post-quantum cryptography on ARM, MATLAB/Simulink DSP simulation, and lab automation, showing comfort across hardware, firmware and test infrastructure. Currently at Keysight after an FPGA role at AnaPico, he thrives on international, cross-disciplinary teams and enjoys turning academic algorithmic work into production-ready FPGA implementations. Notably, his early career included hands-on PCB design and analog troubleshooting, giving him practical insight into real-world constraints that improve his digital designs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNWElektroniker EFZ, Elektroniker EFZ at GIBS SolothurnERASMUS Semester Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ERASMUS Semester Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Linköping University
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Github Skills (175)
visa10
stm32hal10
neopixel10
arduino-library10
controlling10
morph10
wifi-hacking10
gpib10
beacon10
24-bit10
esp826610
post-quantum-cryptography10
scanning10
arduino10
wifi10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fhnw-ise-qcrypt/mcp3564
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
C Library for configuring the MCP3561/2/4 1/2/4 channel 24 Bit sigma-delta ADC on STM32
Contributions:11 reviews, 13 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
deltastm3224-bitc-librarymcp3561
mnemocron/sittningtex
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Personal project. An interplay of Python and LaTeX, these tools help generate Sittning songbooks in a clean and automated manner.
Contributions:2 releases, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
pythoncleanlatexmannerinterplay
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