Christian Herber
European Senior Principal RISC-V Architect at NXP Semiconductors
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Herber is a European Senior Principal RISC-V Architect at NXP Semiconductors with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from TUM and four years in senior RISC-V leadership roles backed by a decade-plus career in embedded systems and networking. He leads RISC-V representation at industry bodies, drove the CV-X-IF coprocessor interface spec at OpenHW Group, and orchestrates cross-European collaboration to align processor, tooling, and software strategies. Prior to focusing on RISC-V he owned software roadmaps for Ethernet products—delivering SDKs, TSN stacks, functional-safety drivers and multi-site development pipelines for Linux, AUTOSAR and bare-metal targets. Based in Hamburg, he blends deep academic research experience in virtualization and multi-core safety-critical systems with pragmatic product delivery, making him adept at translating standards and research into deployable silicon and software. An uncommon strength is his track record of shepherding both standardization efforts and hands-on SDK/device driver projects, bridging ecosystem-level influence with implementation detail.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Technical University of Munich
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (58)
git10
systemverilog10
llvm10
risc-v10
microcontroller10
hardware10
iot10
bluetooth10
instruction-set10
toolchain10
compiler10
embedded10
opcodes10
uvm9
zephyr9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
puranikvinit/newlib
Mar 2025 - May 2025
This is a mirror of the newlib library maintained on sourceware, for newlib optimization (LFX'25)
Contributions:107 reviews, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
openhwgroup/core-v-xif
Mar 2023 - Jul 2025
RISC-V eXtension interface that provides a generalized framework suitable to implement custom coprocessors and ISA extensions
Contributions:4 releases, 81 reviews, 123 PRs in 2 years 4 months
risc-v
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