AMS IC Design & Verification @ Cortina Systems
Ottawa, Canada Area
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- Member of Technical Staff at Cortina Systems
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- A/MS IC Design, EDA and Verification (Contractor) at Cortina Systems
- Product Engineer at Cadence Design Systems
- Applications Engineer at Cadence Design Systems
- Design Analysis Engineer at Chipworks
- Intern in Microelectronics at CMC Microsystems
- IT Support at Young & Rubicam
- Science Demonstrator at Science North
- Education
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- Queen's University
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Andrew Plumb’s Summary
Electrical engineer, specialist in analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) design flows with detailed knowledge of the Cadence Virtuoso suite of software.
Andrew Plumb’s Specialties:
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Andrew Plumb’s Experience
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Member of Technical Staff
Cortina Systems
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Semiconductors industry)
August 2008 — Present (5 months)
Specification-driven verification of analog/mixed-signal IC designs. Behavioural modeling of AMS blocks for accelerated system-level verification. Custom dotlib model generation flows.
General EDA support:
- Cadence Assura, IC, MMSIM and IUS infrastructure.
- Mentor Calibre infrastructure.
- OpenAccess API, SKILL coding, Perl scripting, XML-based document generation (MS Office and custom formats). -
A/MS IC Design, EDA and Verification (Contractor)
Cortina Systems
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Semiconductors industry)
February 2008 — August 2008 (7 months)
Specification-driven verification of analog/mixed-signal IC designs. Behavioural modeling of AMS blocks for accelerated system-level verification.
General EDA support:
- Cadence IC, MMSIM and IUS infrastructure.
- OpenAccess API, SKILL coding, Perl scripting, XML-based document generation (MS Office and custom formats). -
Product Engineer
Cadence Design Systems
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CDN; Semiconductors industry)
November 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 2 months)
Supported the Virtuoso Analog Design Environment (ADE L, XL and GXL) R&D activities.
* Wrote product requirement specification (PRS) documents for new and enhanced capabilities. Coded accompanying mock-ups and functional prototypes where appropriate.
* Wrote and edited tutorials communicating new features and fixes to the field.
* Captured issues uncovered during beta testing in forms reproducible by R&D.
* Devised work-arounds for bug and enhancement requests.
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Applications Engineer
Cadence Design Systems
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CDN; Semiconductors industry)
October 1999 — October 2003 (4 years 1 month)
Worked in the field demonstrating analog/mixed-signal IC electronic design automation (EDA) software, troubleshooting customer issues, conducting workshops and delivering educational services courses.
Supported the Analog Design Environment (a.k.a. Analog Artist), schematic capture, mixed-signal simulation using both the Verimix (a.k.a. Spectre-Verilog) and AMS Designer flows and engines, and parasitic back-annotation flows using Diva and Assura extraction results. -
Design Analysis Engineer
Chipworks
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
May 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 6 months)
Reverse engineering ICs for the purposes of patent infringement and competitive analysis.
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Intern in Microelectronics
CMC Microsystems
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)
May 1997 — May 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Supported EDA software and fabrication access for the Canadian University community.
* Supported the use of Analog Artist in the Cadence 97A and IC 4.4.1 releases.
* Supported the Gennum GA911 process design kit.
* Wrote Perl scripts for submitting Requests For Manufacturing (RFM) from the website instead of by Fax or E-mail.
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IT Support
Young & Rubicam
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WPP; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 1995 — August 1995 (4 months)
Summer job doing IT support @ Y&R Toronto, discovering life in the big city, etc.
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Science Demonstrator
Science North
(Non-Profit; Museums and Institutions industry)
September 1984 — August 1994 (10 years)
Volunteered, worked part-time and full-time over summers in, what was known at the time as, Biosphere and Infosphere.
Andrew Plumb’s Education
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Queen's University
B.Sc., Math & Engineering, Control and Communications Systems, September 1992 — December 1997
- Activities and Societies:
- IEEE, Queen's Orchestra
Andrew Plumb’s Contact Settings
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