Cristopher Villegas is an Industrial Ph.D. candidate at Cadence Design Systems in Munich, Germany, in collaboration with Ulm University (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), since 2020. Prior to this, he worked for over five years as an SoC Design Engineer at NXP Semiconductors in São Paulo, Brazil. His expertise spans SoC front-end design flows, verification, virtual prototyping, and functional safety in automotive-grade SoC architectures.