Jens Bretschneider

Contracting work for leading Semiconductor Companies and Microwave / Telecommunication Solutions Providers. Projects were among others targeting development and implementation of automated RF tests running on satellite test systems, emulation and test environment for automotive radar chipset in SystemC

Development of C++ firmware from concept to verification on LTE/LTE-A PHY focusing on RF chip control (incl. AGC, AFC, time tracking) for several modem and RF chip generations; Contribution to specifications for upcoming products; Customer's product bring-up support; LTE field test for products and improvement of lab verification, creation of database of many operators worldwide on cell sites and deployed cell configs, mobility control and network layout.

Embedded Firmware development on LTE PHY performing RF chip control. (Note: Blue Wonder Communications GmbH as Infineon Technology company was aquired as part of Infineon's Mobile Communications branch by INTEL effective 02/2011.)

Contract engineer for 4G / 3G / 2G development at ST Ericsson AT GmbH; Concepts for and implementation of HW and SW of 10Gbps SRIO based interface on µTCA backplane of Signalion's recent LTE Multi-UE emulator, FPGA based microprocessor real-time subsystem and protocol interfacing between LTE baseband processing and L2 protocol stack (MAC), VHDL/C code generator for subsystem component bus interfaces and control register files, real-time SRIO packet and protocol tracer

Concepts and roadmap for Signalion's next-generation products, Technical marketing, Project management for advanced development and evaluations, Participation in telecom standardisation bodies

Participation at 3GPP LTE RAN2 Standardisation; Concept development, implementation and integration for LTE/3G multi-mode Layer 2 protocol firmware. Linux device driver development, USB and SDIO embedded firmware. International multi-site development

Participation at 3GPP LTE RAN2 Standardisation; Concept development, implementation and integration for LTE/3G multi-mode Layer 2 protocol firmware. Linux device driver development, USB and SDIO embedded firmware. International multi-site development

WLAN OS driver and embedded ARM SW development for WLAN products; International multi-site, multi-cultural development team; Special design-in projects for telecom and IDH customers requiring strong trouble shooting skills and involving customer on-site support

Automation control SW for RF / Antenna measurements and firmware evaluation, RF certification (FCC, ETSI, Telec) for WLAN chipsets, WLAN OS driver and embedded ARM SW development for WLAN products; International multi-site development

Concept study for UMTS L1/L2 implementation on a Vector DSP based SoC, monitoring 3GPP standardization progress; IC design and FPGA prototyping for a HiperLan/2 and WLAN (802.11) multi-mode chipset; Host bus interface verification; ADC/DAC evaluation; RF and antenna measurement automation

HW and FPGA design for 60GHz Multimedia Broadband and 5GHz Cellular ATM (HiperLan2) prototypes; System Integration with international multi-site, multi-company project partners

Diploma Thesis on Design and Implementation of a configurable Modem for a Wireless Cellular ATM System Prototype

Design and implementation (HW, FPGA, uC embedded SW) of a test and evaluation board for a speech codec IC

Data/Mobile Communications, RF design, IC design, Biomedical engineering - Diploma Thesis on Design and Implementation of a configurable Modem for a Wireless Cellular ATM System Prototype