Dirk van den Heuvel

TOPIC Embedded Systems

My name is Dirk van den Heuvel (1967), Principal Consultant at TOPIC. I have an academic degree in electronics engineering and graduated on a tool for graphical modelling and automatic code generation of hierarchical state machines for specifically FPGA devices. After having worked for several other design houses, I joined TOPIC in 2007 as an embedded systems designer. Most of the (embedded) projects I have been involved with use FPGAs as well as application processors or micro-controllers. Applications vary from ppb-accurate VCXO design to multi-stream video processing applications, from medical sensor devices to ultrasound imaging. At TOPIC I co-founded the patented Dyplo® concept, a FPGA-based Network-On-Chip solution wrapping partial reconfigurable functions in a deterministic manner with full Linux software integration. Currently, I am consultant at TOPIC and technically responsible for the premier partnership with AMD/Xilinx as well as the System-On-Modules portfolio of TOPIC.