Björn Berglöf

 
    Tallsätravägen 8
144 63 Rönninge
SWEDEN 		+ 46-8-532 532 60 (home)
bjorn@mrbear.se
www.mrbear.se
 
  Education
    Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. May 1986.
     Technician degree May 1978.
 
  Areas of knowledge
    ASIC, FPGA design Telecommunication
    Microprocessors Power switching
    Assembler Graphics processors
    Batteries, Accumulators Video processing
    Analog electronics Teaching
 
  Experience
     
  4/06 - 
present		 Senior HW Designer at Edgeware
Designing 20Gb/s Video On Demand server.
     
  6/02 - 3/06 Senior HW Designer at Xelerated
Designing  40Gbit/s (100Mgate+). network processor  Responsible for generic DDR-SRAM/FCRAM/RLDRAM/NSE programmable interfaces, handling i/o at 530Mbps/pin. Also designed co-processor in FPGA handling high performance shaping and metering.
     
  4/01 - 5/02 Independent Consultant.
 Contract with Ericsson Telecom in Älvsjö, Stockholm.
Designing a voice processing ASIC for the AXD301 high performance ATM switch. Designing high performance arithmetic blocks. Used Celaro hardware acclerator for verification.  
     
  7/97 - 3/01 Independent Consultant.
Contract with Ericsson Saab Avionics, in Kista, Stockholm.
Designing a graphics processor ASIC for a fighter jet plane. Tool support and contacts with Vendor. Several Altera CPLD/FPGA designs for video processing as well as C++ code in embedded VxWorks environment. Researching the use of commercial graphics processors in mil spec environments. As senior designer supervising several projects as well as giving courses and lectures.
     
  3/98 - 9/00 Advicer, lecturer.
Some shorter engagements with ContextVision in Linköping (design house and vendor selection, contract review) and C technologies in Lund (advising design flow, course in various front-/back-end issues).
     
  2/96 - 6/97 Subcontractor to Mentor Graphics.
Contract with Ericsson Communication Systems, Lund.
Designing with the VLSI 0.5u and 0.35u asic technology (400+ kgates). Responsible for deep-submicron design flow. Synopsys tool support. Using VHDL and several Mentor Graphics tools. Also handled libraries and contacts with vendor. Asics for GSM and AMPS mobile phones. Low voltage and low power design.
     
  1/93 - 6/95 Independent Consultant.
Contract with Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm.
Designing with the Motorola 0.5u asic technology (300+ kgates). Using Verilog and Synopsys. Several designs including: JTAG logic, High Speed block (300 MHz). Responsible for generating functional test vectors and ATPG vectors using Hitest and Synopsys Test Compiler.  
     
  6/91 - 1/93 Consulting ASIC designer. ÅF-Industriteknik, Stockholm.
Design of four Texas Instruments ASICs in 0.7u BiCMOS process (up to 70kgates) handling up to 184 Mbit/s data rate for Ericsson SDH equipment. Using Verilog and Synopsys on SUN workstations in UNIX environment. Responsible for bus interface to Motorola 68302, 68360. Wrote syntax checking tool in C. Also designed in Motorola H4C technology. Using Motive static timing analyzer.
     
  4/88 - 6/91 Consulting engineer. ÅF-Industriteknik, Stockholm.
Designing modems for laptop computers. The work included a lot of traveling, trouble-shooting and contacts with the telecom authorities in several countries. Analog/digital design and real-time assembly programming INTEL 8096. Several designs intended for outdoor environment including power supplies, battery operated equipment and battery chargers. Participated in a demanding 6 month manager training program.
     
  8/86 - 3/88 Lecturer at The University of Zambia (Africa).
Giving course: 'Communication Theory and Systems' for final year telecom. students. Supervising BA students electronics projects.
     
  9/81 - 8/86 MS student. Royal institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Master's project 'Fiber-Optic Power supply' lead to file a Patent application. During studies, part time teacher in various undergraduate courses.
     
  6/79 - 9/81 Programmer at Ellemtel, Stockholm.
Writing programs at HP test equipment and computers used for production testing and measurement of telecom equipment.
 
  Personal
    Outgoing, creative and responsible.
Travel / relocate subject needs.
Fluent in English, some German.
Twenty years as scuba diver, one star Instructor level.
Married.
Born Dec 16, 1958.
Enjoying excellent health.
 
       
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