Christopher Younger Email & Phone Number

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Characterization/Modeling EngineerTeam lead engineer for an international team of engineers working on standard cell library and I/O cell characterization supporting modeling views for timing, power, and signal integrity in Synopsys Liberty and Apache APL library formats.• Team leader and methodology architect for characterization and modeling for all of LSI’s standard cell and I/O libraries.• Expert in characterization methodologies with experience developing and productizing both internal and third-party characterization tools, including tools from Magma and Synopsys. Expert user of Magma’s SiliconSmart and Synopsys’s Liberty NCX tool, in addition to Synopsys’s Liberty modeling format.• Experience in Apache APL characterization and modeling formats.• Significant third-party vendor relations experience. Work with industry leading CAD companies on tool development, support, issue tracking, and bug and feature prioritization. Interim technical manager assignment leading a team responsible for characterization and global design kit development and deployment.• Responsible for project planning, delivery and deployment for several major design kit software releases.Design kit developer for Viewlogic and Synopsys• Developed design kits for Viewlogic schematic capture and Synopsys synthesis libraries.Standard Cell Library Developer• Designed standard cells and I/O buffers for use in library offering. Supported design kit development and deployment.Reliability Qualification Engineering• Facilitated IC qualification programs for several IC technologies. Responsible for scheduling, testing, and reporting of product reliability qualification. Developed new on-line status reports that showed instantaneous status of all qualification studies.IC Product Test Engineer• Developed custom test programs to test analog integrated circuit functions on ATE machines.• Developed, optimized, and tested programs for IC testing prior to production handoff.

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Electronics Engineering