About me

I studied computer science at the RWTH Aachen University with a focus on Human Computer Interaction and Wireless Sensor Networks.

During this time I worked as a student assistent at The Media Computing Group in the area of deeply embedded electronics and helped the Institute of Transport Science rebuild their railway signalling lab. I also programmed autonomous robots for the Eurobot competition as a member of the RoboterClub Aachen e.V..

During my 2+ years at Arm, I worked as an Embedded Software Engineer on mbed OS core and HAL, as well as uVisor, a device security layer for Cortex-M microcontrollers, and the arm-none-eabi-gcc toolchain, and co-authored three patents. I have expert knowledge on and experience with all M-profile architectures (v6-M, v7-M and v8-M).

I'm currently back at university studying and working (again) on the VIA railway signalling lab where I'm designing and manufacturing a highly modular 1:32 scale signals system made of PCBs and 3D prints.

I love all kinds of engineering and technology, especially aviation, railways and robotics. Make my day by sharing about your expert knowledge!

Code

I maintain a C++20 barebone embedded library generator called modm which can generate custom HALs for thousands of different AVRs and Cortex-M devices.

My other projects are hosted on GitHub too.

Talks

At emBO++17 I presented modm: a toolbox to generate microcontroller HALs.

At emBO++18 I held a lightning talk on ARMv8-M and TrustZone-M.

At the DLR Software Engineering Workshop 2018 I gave the keynote about Improving Embedded Software with Data Science.

At emBO++19 I gave a short talk about Modular Code Generation with lbuild.

Communication

You can reach me via electronic mail at niklas@salkinium.com.
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For more structured thoughts refer to my blog.