Fractal Technologies is a privately held company with offices in San Jose, California, Austin Texas, Grenoble France, Yokohama Japan and Eindhoven, the Netherlands where I am based. The company was founded by a small group of highly recognised EDA professionals.The scope of Fractal Technologies is to check consistency and validate all different data formats used in micro-electronic designs and subsequently improve the Quality of: Standard Cell Libraries, IO and all general purpose electronic design IP's be it: Digital, Analog, Mixed-signal or memories...Fractal Technologies offers Crossfire software as well as services and customization.www.fract-tech.com

Worldwide Application Engineer for DREAM/Hurrican/Siclone/SiFix software.Application engineering manager.Activities: - Executing Benchmarks. - Customer Support. o Japan, Taiwan, Singapore. o Initial training and support of Japanese distributor. (KDT, Innotech) Lived in Japan for 8 months.

Starting SagantecNA in Fremont Sales&Support Office for 2 years.Activities: - Customer Support.. - Customer Education in Sagantec software. - Education of own Sagantec AE’s - Technical set-up of the Sagantec Office..

Knowledge transfer and technical support of the starting Sagantec group in Israel (Haifa) during 1 year.Activities: - Technical support of the development group. - Knowledge transfer between Sagantec NL and Sagantec IL.Projects: - Conversion SID-> Verilog - 8051 Design..

Design house oriented towards designing chips with ASA Silicon Compiler. Projects: - Token Ring Network chip. Source routing, Transparent Bridging. - FDDI Network chip.Activities: - Implementing and designing chips in cooperation with the customer. - Executing and evaluating DRC, LVS, ERC. - Maintenance of the cell libraries.

Developer on the ASA Silicon Compiler.Software engineer in research department.Activities: - Logic synthesis. - Research into RC simulation models. - Timing Analysis ( Backannotation ) - VHDL to SID ( intern HDL ) Conversion software in C. - Maintenance of the layout generation software. - Research group layout generation. - Timing driven logic synthesis - Static Timing Analyser. - Visiting conferences. (EDAC DAC) - Programming in Pascal.