Jef van Meerbergen is a professor at the department of Electrical Engineering the Technical University of Eindhoven and at the Eindhoven Embedded Systems Institute. I am also a Research Fellow of Philips and Associate Editor of "Design Automation for Embedded Systems".
My research interests are architectures for embedded systems, system level design methods, VLSI aspects, multiprocessor systems and reconfigurable computing.
I received the Electrical Engineering Degree and the Ph.D. degree from the KU Leuven in 1975 and 1980 respectively. In 1979 I joined Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven where I was involved in the design programmable DSPs which resulted in the SP50xx family which was the first DSP within Philips.
In 1985 I got involved in an Esprit project with Imec which was targeted at application-driven high-level synthesis for audio and telecom applications. The results of this project are commercialised by Frontier Design and are currently available as the A|RT tools. These tools are used also in the course "Design of large ICs". Later the application domain shifted towards high-throughput applications and the Phideo compiler was developed. This compiler was used by Philips for several commercially available designs like Melzonic and Falconic. These chips implement the Natural Motion feature in high-end TV sets of Philips. This work also received the best paper award at the 1997 ED&TC conference.