Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Ropers

Seasoned R&D Manager with a passion for strategic software development. Dedicated to customer success and expert for high quality and scalable software architectures. Long term experience in people development and management of large scale R&D teams.

Management & technical lead for group of 10 people. Specialist for automotive software development, functional safety, embedded software debuggers and hybrid simulation (virtual prototypes & emulation/prototyping).

• Developing SystemC debugging solutions • Leading automotive Initiative for Virtual Platforms • AddIn development for Visual Studio in C++ and C#

Technical Marketing Manager for Fast Models (Virtual Prototypes) of ARM processor cores.

• Technical lead for the development of fast virtual prototypes used in 3rd party simulation environments based on SystemC, line management for skill group of 4 engineers. • Developing fast processor models (ARM and other vendors) • Member of the OSCI SystemC working groups • Working on the simulation infrastructure (System Generator) and espacially on the standard compliant export into other EDA vendors imulators. • Automatic generation of compilers out of a processor description languages and the mo

Responsible for the design and implementation of EDA tools. Was acquired in 2004 by ARM (see current position)