Who am I?

My name is Dennis. Although I am Dutch, I am currently living in Germany where I am studying electrical engineering & computer science (EECS) at RWTH Aachen University. I am hoping to have attained my masters degree by the end of this year. Technological innovations have always roused my curiosity and excitement. Because I wanted to be able to develop these novel technologies myself, I decided to enroll EECS a few years ago. Since I had been programming before and thus possessed a rough understanding of computer architectures, it was important to me that my field of study would also include electrical engineering. In that way I would be able to acquire a proper understanding of computers from the lowest level—i.e. the bare integrated circuits—to the highest—i.e. user space—, and everything in between.

Contact Details

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Education

RWTH Aachen University

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science• October 2015 - October 2018

Specialization: Micro- and Nanoelectronics
Modules included: lectures on VLSI architectures, computer arithmetics, mixed analog signals, neural networks, new materials and devices in information technology, and operating systems. Lab training of VLSI design, FPGA design, and on the production of a FeRAM cell.

RWTH Aachen University

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science• October 2011 - September 2015

Final project: “Analysis of Concepts for Power Reduction in Arithmetic Units of MAP Decoders”—A mathematical, bit accurate implementation of a decoder in MATLAB and C++, to find techniques that will potentially reduce the switching activity (and so the power) in the arithmetic units of the decoder.

Sophianum SG. in het Heuvelland

Gymnasium• September 2005 - July 2011

Comparable to a university-preparatory school with Latin as additional language.

Work

Aquantia Corporation

Consultant• August 2017 - Present

Development of a level 2 Ethernet switch in SystemC. Support and further development of the FPGA user interface and the power analysis environment.

Intern • Nobember 2016 - July 2017

Power analysis of various digital chips. Development an intuitive graphical user interface, written in Python, Tkinter, and C, to access and manipulate an FPGA Ethernet debug tool.

Boscafé 't Hijgend Hert

Web developer and server administrator • April 2012 - Present

Responsible for the online marketing, the development of several websites and the maintenance and security of their Linux based virtual private server.

Headwaiter • September 2010 - October 2016

Head of a small subteam of about 8 waiters. Responsible for a smooth running of daily restaurant business.

Chair for Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems, RWTH Aachen University

Student Research Assistent • May 2016 - July 2016

Establishment of burst-mode communication between the FPGA fabric and CPU subsystem, over AXI and/or DDR interface on Altera Cyclone V devices.

Skills

Below, I listed skills I acquired during professional work or during intensive work in my free time. Besides the skills I have listed below, I have some basic knowledge about photography and photo editting, webdesign with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and server-side scripting with PHP and PostreSQL. Furthermore I know how to sript in Linux with Perl/CSH and have basic knowledge about the Linux kernel architecture.

  • C++
  • C
  • Python
  • Tkinter
  • SystemC
  • (System)Verilog
  • Matlab
  • Linux Server configuration
  • FPGA

Get in Touch

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Dennis Potter

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