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IC Layout Design Engineer with skills in team management

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Nick Trompert

Harry – IC Layout Design Engineer

  • Custom layout of cells, IP blocks, and chips; including, where appropriate, floor planning, power planning, Analog/Digital custom layout, physical verification, and extraction.
  • Place and Route of IP and at Chip Level; including floor planning, power planning and routing, Placement (based on one or more of the following Timing, Power, Clocks, Regions and Groups, Routing density), Clock tree synthesis, Custom Analog routing (Shielding, RC matching, and keep out areas), Detail routing, ECO, layout verification (DRC/ERC/LVS/Antenna/Density/LVL), and extraction.
  • Group management; Schedule, methodology, and standards development.

  • Enabling collaboration across the team, group, department, and corporation. Developing the understanding of the cost of delay, and the cost of an iteration.
  • Completing hundreds of layout projects that have ranged from libraries to Analog IP, and Memory chips to Mixed Signal products to Systems on a Chip.
  • Development and corporate adoption of an Embedded Array Methodology and Library.
  • Evaluation, adoption, and corporate acceptance of improved PnR tools and methodologies.
  • Multinational, multi-site, multi divisional Physical Design team management.
  • Developed, and led, multi-site and cross divisional Physical Design collaboration team;
    • Team Patent # 5774684 – IC with Multiple functions, sharing multiple internal busses … (SOC).
    • Managed a high caliber Physical Design team that prided itself on meeting our committed schedules and having <1% of silicon problems attributed to Physical Design.
    • Multi-site, multinational, IP library methodology development and implementation.

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Topics: Design Engineer, Layout Engineer

Nick Trompert

Nick Trompert is a Sr. Manager. He is responsible for connecting with the best engineering and information technology talent and resources in the world. He is one of the founders of Talent 101 and joined full time after college.

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