SUMMARY:

Ideal Job would Include

EXPERIENCE:

1996 - Present: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, Munich Germany

Work(ed/ing) with European and Middle Eastern Customers Developing, Architecting, Improving and Maintaining IC Design Environments.

Accomplishments:

• Managed Software group of 6 Software Engineers. Voted Most Creative and Innovative by Peers.
• Author of Cadence's Extensible PCell Methodology (EPM), PCell development system including PCell Emulator and Stochastic Debugger. EPOS (Extensible PCell Object System), Additional Layer Concept (ALC), FLEX rules.
• Object Oriented Extensions to the SKILL language including, CLOS (partial implementation of Common Lisp Object System) including multiple-dispatch, method combination, application based (non-class based) dispatch. Exception Handler (VEH) based on double method dispatch.
• Automated SKILL Source Code Documentation Generator
• CCC Common Centroid device Calculator
• Design Automation: Connectivity Model Manager, Object Oriented Schematic Check and Save, Virtual Technology Rules (VTR), Physical Design Quantization PDQ (U.S. Patent).
• Programatic Parameterized Cell Development for CMOS transistors, contacts, resistors in CMOS technologies and Archimedian Spiral Inductors for HF technologies, for many customers and process technologies.
• Technology independent Cadence to Mentor (Ample) design converter.
• Automated Schematic Library Conversion to convert from customer proprietary PC base CAD platform to Cadence UNIX platform.
• Extensive enhancements and to Virtuoso, DLE/VirtuosoXL, Composer layout and schematic capture environments.
• Automatic (Reticle) Frame Generator, including extensive macro language for Frame Generator description.
• ECL Topology Analyzer and Level Checker

1992 - 1996: INTEL CORPORATION, Hillsboro OR
Sr. CAD Engineer

Designed and maintained Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools in support of engineers designing Intel's next generation microprocessor (p6) from mid-project through tape-out. Responsibilities include providing Opus user support to team of ~250 engineers, maintaining Composer schematic capture environment, DMS library maintenance, library corruption detection and repair, providing SKILL programming support, supervising junior engineer and co-op.

Accomplishments:

• Designed and developed Intel generic property editor, including GUI, property description data base, consistency checker, and interfaces to schematic extraction and netlisting.
• Implemented Intel schematic checks (ISCs) as wrapper around schematic extraction. The code assures that schematics adhere to Intel schematic capture rules of connectivity, naming, and labeling.
• Enhanced library browser to include general purpose copy, move, and delete functions at cell, cellView, and category levels. GUI includes robust pattern matching flexibility allowing users to identify target cells.
• Various SKILL programs and GUIs to enhance schematic (Composer) environment. Including Dynamic Load, Connect By Name, Graphical Data Mapper, and Hierarchy Descent Engine, as well as SKILL programmers library, including 2D form generator, menu modifier, OS interfaces, math, string, list and database manipulation functions.
• Inherited, maintained, and enhanced Opus library scanner (dmscan) to detect and repair library corruptions -- code written in C (ITK), SKILL, and Perl.
• Developed documentation Hypertext Browser used as project wide documentation center -- code written in C-shell, Perl, MIF, and HTML.
• Maintained and enhanced intel hierarchical netlister, including installation, customizing, bug fixes, and providing expert user support.

1988 - 1992: CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR, Starkville MS
CAD Engineer

Designed and maintained (CAD) tools in support of engineers designing integrated circuits. Additional responsibilities included user support, creating and maintaining various general utility programs, and other system administration tasks.

Accomplishments:

• Developed and interfaced database management package including daemon (written in C), applications programs (C and SKILL/lisp) to run and communicate across SUN network; defined common protocol
• Maintained and enhanced netlisting software, including incorporating various vendors' simulators (HSPICE, LSIM, MACH-1000, Dracula) into CADENCE OSS.
• Created a corporate-wide definitive FrameMaker document describing the usage and graphical aspects of the in-house schematic capture library.
• Rewrote generic SKILL database for integrating vendor CAD system (CADENCE/EDGE) with in-house element library, reducing possibility of user error, easing the process of adding library elements, and streamlining code to approximately 20% of original size.

1985 - 1988: MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State, MS
Undergraduate/Graduate Research Assistant

Accomplishments:

• Developed graphics software package to plot experimental data.
• Implemented linear and non-linear circuit simulator.
• Translated software to interface Hewlett-Packard test equipment with SUN workstation using General Purpose Interface Board (GPIB).
• Implemented partial PostScript interpreter

EDUCATION:

Aug 1992 MA, Mathematics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

Dec 1987 BS, Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

PUBLICATIONS:

• U.S. Patent - No. ??????? - PCell Encapsulation
• Extensible PCell Object System: A Multiple-Inheritance approach to PCell Development. (Proceedings), AIS'04/CAD-2005 An IEEE sponsored international conference on Artificial Intelligence Systems and Joint international conference on Intelligent CAD Systems
• Automated PCell Documentation System International CADENCE Users Group Conference (Proceedings), Oct 2004.
• Connect By Name Checker, International CADENCE Users Group Conference (Proceedings), Oct 1994.
• Graphical Data Mapper, International CADENCE Users Group Conference (Proceedings), Oct 1994.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• UNIX (20 years total / 3 years IBM(AIX) / 17 years on SUN / 2 years on VAX-Ultrix) / Linux (4 years)
• CADENCE Design Systems software (Edge and Opus) (16 years)
• Programming languages include:
  • Proficiency in
    • Common LISP - 2 years
    • SKILL (CADENCE version of LISP) (12 years)
    • CSH shell (20 years)
    • C (10 years) (very rusty)
  • Familiarity with Perl, Python, HTML, Emacs lisp, PostScript, Bourne Shell, CVS, Mentor (Ample).

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