Tim Fischer
PHD Student at PULP Platform
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Fischer is a PhD student at ETH Zürich with eight years of experience designing scalable, energy-efficient on-chip and off-chip communication systems from RTL to physical implementation. He combines a strong academic foundation in electrical engineering and information technology with hands-on expertise in embedded systems, IoT, and machine learning. As Head TA for a VLSI course he enabled students to perform real chip tapeouts using industry EDA tools, showing his commitment to bridging theory and practice. An active member of the PULP Platform, he contributed modular, parametrizable AXI IP and testbenches, reflecting a focus on configurable hardware and verification. Based in Zurich, he is passionate about programming and frequently applies software-like development practices to hardware design to improve clarity and reuse.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik, Master of Science - MS, Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (10)
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fpga10
ax10
systemverilog10
hardware10
axi410
asic9
ip8
testbed7
testbench7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pulp-platform/axi
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
AXI SystemVerilog synthesizable IP modules and verification infrastructure for high-performance on-chip communication
Role in this project:
Hardware Engineer
Hardware EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the `axi_xp` module, focusing on its configuration and integration. Their work involved uniquifying AXI master and slave ports, adding comments to parameters for improved clarity, and disabling default routing. Furthermore, the user made the crossbar configuration parametrizable and removed unnecessary parameterizations, indicating a focus on modularity and configurability. Finally, the user added an initial testbench for the module.
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fischeti/Variometer
Apr 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 48 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 8 months
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