Skills:
SKILLS: Deep-submicron ASIC / SoC design, encompassing micro-architecture, RTL logic design, synthesis, behavioral and gate-level simulation verification and debug, formal verification, static timing analysis, floorplanning, timing-driven layout supervision, DFT/DFx and BIST, burn-in and fault test generation, silicon test and debug, system integration and debug. Technical supervision. VHDL, Verilog, and ABEL logic design. RTL to GDS II development of ASIC IP blocks for a high-speed DDR3 PHY interface. Custom VLSI circuit design and layout. HSPICE and STARSIM circuit simulation. FPGA (Xilinx and Actel), PLD, and PCB design and debug. Signal integrity analysis and problem resolution. DSP, digital filter design, image processing, and speech processing. MATLAB and MACSYMA analysis. C, Fortran, and i960 assembly language programming. Tcl / Perl scripting. Scientific computing. EDA tools: Mentor (Modelsim / QuestaSim, Design Architect, DFT Advisor, FastScan ATPG), Synopsys (Design Compiler, DC Ultra, IC Compiler / ICC, DFT Compiler, PrimeTime, PTPX), ExtremeDA (GoldTime), Cadence (Opus, Composer, Virtuoso, Verilog-XL, Apollo APR, First Encounter, Encounter Conformal LEC formal verification), LogicVision ET (Embedded Test 4.1), Intel (CSE, Cougar, SALT, SHARK, BLAST), AMD (Tile Builder), and IBM (ASTAP, ETE, Aussim, LSSD RulesCheck, fault grading, Autogen). UNIX and Windows operating systems.