Jef van Meerbergen, Research Fellow
Philips Research Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Jef has been at Philips Research since 1979. He is an expert in the design of digital CMOS circuits, domain-specific processors and general-purpose digital signal processors (DSPs). He has contributed to architectures and compilers for DSP applications (e.g. for CD, Digital Audio Broadcasting and UMTS Turbo decoder) and for high-throughput video applications (e.g. for Natural Motion which won the Innovation Award from the European Imaging and Sound Association).

Currently, he focuses on multiprocessor systems, networks-on-chip and wireless sensor nodes for healthcare applications, such as ECG and EEG and lighting applications (e.g. presence detection).

He is part-time professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

He won a Best Paper Award at the Electronic Design & Test Conference (ED&TC).

His work resulted in startup companies like Adelante and Silicon Hive.