| Personal Information | ||
| Name: | Couzijn, Wouter Erik Sebastiaan | |
| Title: | Master of Science (Electrical Engineering) | |
| Function: | CEO of AtOnce | |
| Date of Birth: | July 22nd, 1978 | |
| Place of Birth: | Heiloo, the Netherlands | |
| Nationality: | Dutch | |
| Marital Status: | Married | |
| Gender: | Male | |
| Address: | Rijtseweg 20 | |
| Postal code: | 4841 JK | |
| Residence: | Prinsenbeek, the Netherlands | |
| Telephone: | +31 (0)6 44988577 | |
| Email: | couzijn @ at1x . nl | |
| Education | |
| Sep 2000 - Aug 2001 | Leiden University, the Netherlands and Japan – Netherlands Institute, Tokyo, Japan. Japan Prizewinners Programme, a one-year postgraduate course on Japanese language, business and culture. |
| Sep 1996 - Sep 2000 | Delft University of Technology, Electrical Engineering. Research group of Control Engineering. Thesis: "Mobile Robot Chess Game". Masters achieved in 1 year less than standard curriculum, Cum Laude. Special recognition: Award for Best Graduate of Delft University in the year 2000. Bachelors: Aug 1999, Cum Laude. Propaedeutics: Aug 1997, Cum Laude. |
| Sep 1990 - Jun 1996 | Willem Blaeu, Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Grammar school, Cum Laude. |
| Professional experience | |
| Apr 2002 - now | Own company AtOnce, for ASIC design and consultancy. Various projects for multinationals in Europe, North-America and Japan, including wireless technology, medical and automotive applications (esp. in-car networking solutions), development of automated production test setups and supporting software tools (e.g. compilers and simulators). Many years of experience with proprietary embedded microcontroller cores, digital signal and audio processing for car radio receivers and FM transmitters/transceivers, mixed signal, ultra low power design, fundamentals of Bluetooth, WiFi, ZigBee, Wibree, digital radio/TV standards and GPS, coexistence issues with such systems, clock gating, switching and multiplexing, digital PLLs. Extensive experience in the latest process nodes (65nm, 45nm). Primary skills: digital design (Verilog HDL, gate-level reworks), firmware coding for embedded microcontroller cores. |
| Jan - Feb 2003 | Consultant at Fujitsu, Advanced System LSI research group, Tokyo, Japan. Development of a VLSI ASIC for simultaneous support of Bluetooth and Wifi / IEEE802.11. |
| Oct - Dec 2001 and Mar - Apr 2002 |
Consultant at Fujitsu, Advanced System LSI research group, Tokyo, Japan. Pipeline based on reconfigurable hardware added to VLIW CPU. Resulted in a publication in IEEE Transaction (Aug 2003) and a patent. |
| Sep 2001 - Apr 2002 | Senior microcontroller designer, Melexis N.V., Belgium. Responsible for the entire digital design of a high voltage CMOS ultra low-power telecom ASIC. |
| Mar - Jul 2001 | Internship at Fujitsu, Advanced System LSI research group, Tokyo, Japan. Design of a VLIW processor with reconfigurable hardware. |
| Apr 1994 - now | Freelance R&D hard- and software development for several companies, like the Union of electricity producing companies, ESTEC (Noordwijk), KPN Telecom (Voorburg), Bridge Systems (Rotterdam), Trammell Crow (Nieuwegein), Nutricia/Siemens, Mind Design (Delft) and TNO (Delft). Own company AtOnce founded for this purpose. Over 20 projects, involving concept, patents and literature studies, hard- and software design, production, as well as applications for patents and subsidies. Special focus on low-power, low-cost. Generated Intellectual Property includes an own microcontroller series, a Fast Fourier Transform algorithm (out-performing the Butterfly FFT with a factor 200 or more) for signal processing and speech recognition, a General Compiler for reconfigurable hardware platforms and a wireless networking solution for low-speed communication amongst a large number of nodes (> 100), with very low energy consumption and low cost price. |
| Extracurricular activities | |
| Mar 1994 - Apr 2001 | Participation in more than 15 science competitions, among which the prestigious European Union Contest for Young Scientists 1996 (first prize), and the Physics Olympiad 1996 (first prize). |
| Sep 1996 - Jul 2001 | Various students activities such as contest organizations (Young Scientists, Robocup, Createch), work as a student-assistant, member of the organizing committee for the National Science Day 1999 and editor of the faculty magazine "Maxwell" for 3½ years. |
| Oct 1998 | Founder of the Europe-X, a network of over 25 students from all over Europe (not only EU), informing the European Commission and local governments on international aspects of student education, e.g. exchange-programs, study credit systems, maintenance of national knowledge and financial aspects. |
| Aug 1997 | Participant of the London Youth Science Forum, London, a forum with over 200 students from all around the globe. |
| Mar 1997 | Exhibitor at Robotix '97, a world-wide annual robot exhibition in Glasgow. |
| Language skills | |
| Dutch | Native |
| English | Good |
| German | Basic |
| French | Basic |
| Japanese | Moderate |
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