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Rochester, Mn, Us

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Rochester, Minnesota Area

Rochester, Mn

• Lead teams of engineers on challenging 14nm and 7nm ASIC designs• Lead/engage engineers across the world• Implement high performance ARM processor cores• Drive customer benchmarks to bring new business and enhance existing tool/IP/methodology• Synthesis, floorplanning, placement, routing, timing optimization, power optimization/analysis• Engage with clients to ensure seamless implementation• Lead architect of the design automation flow environment used by over 500 hundred designers• Drive EDA vendors to deliver quality products and methodologies• Develop many Tcl/Perl/Python scripts to aid productivity via automation• Work with tools from a variety of vendors (Cadence, Synopsys)

Rochester, Minnesota Area

• Lead teams of 5-10 physical design engineers on challenging 45/32/14nm products• Lead/engage engineers from multiple geographies• Responsible for successful tapeout of 20-30 blocks per chip (many multi-million blocks)• Floorplanning, placement, routing, timing optimization• Engage with clients to ensure seamless implementation• Developed web-based status tracking system used by multiple designs to improve productivity• Drive EDA vendors to deliver quality products and methodologies• Developed various Tcl/Perl scripts to aid productivity via automation• Work with tools from a variety of vendors (IBM, Cadence, Synopsys)

Rochester, Minnesota Area

• Point of contact for design automation on multiple deep sub micron designs• Worked on designs delivered into high-profile products such as Sony PS3, Microsoft XBOX360, as well as various IBM Servers and other customer products• Primarily focused on high-level/logical/physical synthesis• Develop and support standard and customized design methodologies• Develop and support design automation software for use in IBM Server/ASIC methodologies• Produced a variety of helpful scripts and applications using C++, Tcl, and Perl• Utilize tools from various vendors (IBM, Synopsys, Cadence)• Developed graphics package used by several IBM EDA tools based on GD library