Missing Link Electronics, Inc. (MLE) was founded in 2010 by a group of seasoned business experts and technologists. Since then, MLE has been gaining reputation as an emerging technology company which develops and markets dependable solutions for the realization of connected embedded systems.
Our Partners
Missing Link Electronics, Inc. (MLE) was founded in 2010 by a group of seasoned business experts and technologists. Since then, MLE has been gaining reputation as an emerging technology company which develops and markets dependable solutions for the realization of connected embedded systems. To de-risk and to accelerate customer design projects we have been working closely with various partners:
MLE is a Premier Member of the AMD Adaptive Compute Program. As such MLE passed a comprehensive review by AMD of technical, business, quality, and support processes and will continue to commit engineers to passing the same rigorous training used by AMD Field Application Engineer worldwide.
MLE is Gold Member of Intel’s Partner Alliance (former Design Solutions Network / Altera’s Design Service Network) offering FPGA design services to customers located in North America and Europe.
Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable MLE to create optimal designs, which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time to market.
Trenz Electronic GmbH is a fellow member of the AMD Adaptive Compute Program. The combination of leading edge, high-quality FPGA and System-on-Modules from Trenz and FPGA Design Services, IP Cores and Full System Stacks from MLE significantly reduces development costs and risks for any FPGA user, novice or experienced.
Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute has partnered with MLE since 2014 to market and commercialize IP Cores and Test and Measurement solutions for networking and wireless communication.
MLE partners with Fraunhofer IPMS on Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Deterministic Networking (DetNet) for high-speed 10/25/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet.
Since 2010, MLE is working with ASICS World Services on FPGA-based Storage IP core integration. ASICS World Services, a Xilinx Alliance Partner, provides a broad line of general-purpose IP cores for ASIC & FPGA.
Elemaster Germany, former CAD-UL Electronic Services GmbH in Ulm, and MLE have a successful history of delivering FPGA-based Turnkey Systems for Automotive, Aerospace, Defense and Test & Measurement applications. Close proximity enables both teams to respond very shortly to customer’s special needs.
In close collaboration with E2MS partner PRO DESIGN, MLE offers complete, integrated turnkey solutions including hardware / PCB design and manufacturing, systems / software / FPGA development and test.
Opsero is a hardware design partner in the FPGA ecosystem who develops abd markets high-speed FMC adapter boards and other high-performance electronic hardware for FPGA applications.
Knowledge Resources is another fellow member of the Xilinx Partner program located in Basel, Switzerland. KR offers System-on-Modules (SoM) for Zync-7000,Zync UltraScale+ MPSoC and RFSoC which are ideal hardware platforms for MLE’s extensive range of IP cores and subsystem / software solutions.
Since 2015, MLE partners with EMCOMO Solutions AG to provide FPGA subsystems and development services for FPGA-based MicroTCA modules.
MLE is member of the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) which is an association of 700+ industry companies committed to advancing its non-proprietary peripheral component interconnect (PCI) technology.
MLE is extending its Robo/TSN patented and patent pending technology to provide industrial, medical, and robotics networking solutions combining high-accuracy time-synchronization with high data rates of 100 Gbps, and faster to interface with and tunnel of EtherCAT.
MLE is actively contributing to the Open Source software ecosystem with a special focus on FPGA-based acceleration for Power and ARM architectures.
Management Team
Endric Schubert, PhD
Co-Founder & CTO
Dr. Endric Schubert is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur in the field of electronic and semiconductor design. His background includes software engineering, FPGA technology, Reconfigurable Computing and Embedded Systems design. He worked in the Advanced Technology Group at Exemplar Logic, at Axis Systems, at Aristo Technology Inc. and later co-founded Bridges2Silicon, Inc. and ESIC-Solutions. He has authored various technical publications, is inventor of several patents and holds lectures on electronic system design.
Endric holds an Electrical Engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) from University of Karlsruhe, Germany and a PhD degree from University of Tübingen, Germany. He is an honorary professor at the University of Ulm, Germany where he researches and teaches electronic system design.
Robert Barker
COO
Robert (Bob) Barker is an experienced executive manager with many years in the semiconductor and software industries. He has worked for large and small companies; including Philips, Xilinx, and Mentor Graphics. He was responsible for introducing some of the most successful FPGA Design Creation tools Galileo and Leonardo to the market at Exemplar Logic prior to its acquisition by Mentor Graphics. He has a sustained track record with start up companies and as an employee and as a consultant has helped several companies achieve success, including Blackstone Technology Group and Future Design Automation. He has co-authored two patents.
Bob has a BSEE from California State Polytechnic University, SLO.
Christian Grumbein
Director Engineering
Christian Grumbein is Director Engineering at Missing Link Electronics where he coordinates and leads MLE’s design service teams. Chris is a Xilinx Certified Engineer and has developed FPGA systems and solutions in the areas of mixed-signal, high-speed serial IO, PCI Express and embedded Linux.
When not working on on FPGAs, he practices and teaches martial arts.
Chris holds a degree in Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) from the University of Ulm, Germany.
Ulrich Langenbach
Director Engineering
Ulrich Langenbach is Director Engineering at Missing Link Electronics where he coordinates and leads MLE’s development initiatives. Prior to MLE he was with Fraunhofer HHI where he worked on high-performance heterogeneous systems, e.g. in the field of network processing and protocol acceleration. Ulrich is a guest researcher at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin and has co-authored various technical publications about network protocols and FPGA based systems.
Ulrich holds a degree in Computer Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) from TU-Berlin, Germany.
Andreas Schuler
Director Applications
Andreas Schuler is Director Applications at Missing Link Electronics where he coordinates joint work of Xilinx and MLE. His field of operation reaches over Architecture design, Image processing, Security, Neural Networks to product development.
Andreas Schuler holds a degree in Industrial Electronics (B.Eng.) from Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Yi-Ying Li (Sandy)
Director Technology Solutions
Yi-Ying Li (Sandy) is Director Technology Solutions at Missing Link Electronics where she coordinates joint work of Trenz and MLE. Her fields of operation reaches over market development and marketing.
Yi-Ying Li holds a degree in Tricontinental Master Program in Global Studies (MSc.) from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in Germany, National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, and University of Monterrey in Mexico.
Ewald Detjens
Technology Advisor
Ewald Detjens has worked in semiconductors, computers, EDA, alternative energy, medical imaging, and machine learning. He is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and has advised many startups. He was the founder and CEO of Exemplar Logic, the first company to do logic synthesis for FPGAs. Exemplar was acquired by Mentor Graphics. He has an AB in Computer Science and a MS in EECS from UC Berkeley.
Jim Peek
Technology Advisor
Jim Peek is an experienced entrepreneur and technologist in electronic systems design from chips to large database servers. Jim worked for many years at one of Silicon Valley’s largest computer companies (Sun Microsystems) as well as other companies as engineer, designer, manager, business developer, and corporate development manager. Jim has worked on the design of general purpose micro-processors (RISC), graphics and floating point processors (Weitek), and was an architect in the area of multiprocessor systems (both SMP and Parallel Processor Systems, Pyramid Technology MIS & MESH) and fault resilient systems (Sun Clusters). He started a company that built some of the first large caches for micro-processors (RISC Systems). He later worked at other startups building storage systems, most recently at Fusion-io as Strategic Marketing Director and later in a similar position at Bay Storage Technology, prior to coming to MLE.
Jim holds BSEE & MSEE degrees from UC Berkeley.
MLE’s Embedded Cloud Computing solutions will be presented at the DESIGN & ELEKTRONIK Entwicklerforum in Session 2 “Configurable Microcontroller Solutions to Counter Obsolescence” and Session 8 “Optimizing Latency in Embedded Cloud Computing”.
MLE’s Configurable Systems design and verification will be presented in two presentations in Session 6: “ASSPs selbst bauen: Zynq machts möglich” and “Die virtuelle Plattform: Der Einsatz von Zynq für die Verifikation und das Debugging von konfigurierbaren Systemen” at the Konferenz für ARM-Systementwicklung.
MLE showcases remote control of open In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) for the electric vehicle from StreetScooter.
You’re invited to stop by booth 25 in hall 25 to see our solutions for the open-service cloud.
Stop by Xilinx Booth #1708 in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center where we will be presenting “PONG”, a real-time video processing system running Linux, fully integrated with Xilinx Zynq-7000 series Extensible Processing Platform (EPP).
… of Virtual Platform for Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform
Cadence Virtual System Platform Used by Missing Link Electronics to Dramatically Reduce Time-to-Market for Automotive Infotainment and Medical Systems
Based on the Cadence EDA tool chain MLE will present a design flow to extend Altera Cyclone FPGA devices with soft analog I/O connectivity. You’re invited to meet us at CDNLive! Silicon Valley or CDNLive! EMEA in Munich, Germany.
