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STAFF CAD ENGINEER
Summary
A CAD engineer position in a semiconductor or EDA organization seeking expertise in IC design characterization, verification, flow automation. Over 10 years of experience developing IP characterization and design automation tools in semiconductor and EDA industry. Energetic, self-motivated, reliable team player, with a track record of excellent annual performance reviews.
Highlights
PERL, PYTHON, C programming and Unix/Linux shell scripting. Proficiency in using various circuit simulators, Calibre DRC and LVS, StarRC, Totem. Solid knowledge in CMOS circuits, Verilog, SQL, Sungrid, schematic and Layout Editors, circuit simulation, parasitic extraction, timing and power analysis.
Experience
Marvell Semiconductor IncSanta Clara, USAStaff CAD Engineer01/2006 to Current
  • Responsible for all Marvell compiler and customer memory characterization and timing/power/noise/Verilog/AVM/CPF/Apache model generation.
  • Designed and developed Marvell memory compiler characterization automation flow, CCS noise model and Apache power model generation flow.
  • Major developer for coding Marvell SRAM, Register File, ROM, EFUSE compilers.
  • Wrote various automation utilities to support customers, memory designers and layout engineers, including parallel parasitic extraction, liberty generation, data validation, netlist encryption, DRC/LVS verification, circuit check and rom code verification tools.
  • Evaluated multiple commercial EDA tools, including circuit simulators XA, Finesim, Spectre, characterization tool SiliconSmart.
Legend Design Technology IncSanta Clara, USAR&D Engineer01/2002 to 01/2006
  • Developed a fully automated memory characterization system Charflo-Memory!, which was adopted for production use by many semiconductor companies.
  • Designed and implemented "Activenet-Extraction Flow" in the characterization system, which greatly reduced overall run time.
  • Developed power characterization automation system for cell leakage and active power report.
  • Participated in all phases of EDA software development, including project planning, problem identification, design specifications, algorithm development, task scheduling, code implementation and testing, interfacing with application engineers and customers.
  • Co-author of several patents on reliability-based characterization system of IC designs: Reliability based characterization using bisection Timing soft error check Verification and Characterization of noise margin in memory design Glitch and Meta-stability checks by signal characteristics.
Lenovo CoBeijing, ChinaApplication Engineer01/1995 to 01/1998
  • Responsible for communication system testing, trouble-shooting and customer service.
Education
Master's:Computer EngineeringUC Santa CruzComputer Engineering
Master's:Electrical EngineeringChongqing UniversityChinaElectrical Engineering
Skills
Apache, automation, C programming, circuit design, encryption, customer service, data validation, delivery, Layout, Linux, memory, developer, PERL, coding, project planning, PYTHON, quality, scheduling, shell scripting, simulation, software development, SQL, trouble-shooting, Unix, utilities, Verilog, author, XA
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Marvell Semiconductor Inc
  • Legend Design Technology Inc
  • Lenovo Co

School Attended

  • UC Santa Cruz
  • Chongqing University

Job Titles Held:

  • Staff CAD Engineer
  • R&D Engineer
  • Application Engineer

Degrees

  • Master's : Computer Engineering
    Master's : Electrical Engineering

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