Yongwon Lee

• 20+ years experience in PDK (Process Design Kit) and EDA (Electronic Development Automation) area in the semiconductor industry. • Led the PDK development focusing on development, qualification and automation of internal and third party PDKs. • Wide knowledge of integrated circuit (Analog/Digital) design methodology and EDA tools from front-end to back-end. • Experience in providing best practice methodologies on back-end design tools for company-wide design use based on standardization and automation. • Technical leader who provided mentoring to the PDK team members and R&D engineers. SKILL • Expert in establishing and releasing whole PDK configuration • Expert in developing Calibre/Assura/Diva Verification Rule decks (DRC/LVS/LVL/ERC/PERC/QRC/PEX) of Analog IC Processes (LVIC/BiCMOS/HVIC). • Expert in developing Calibre/Assura Verification Rule decks (DRC/LVS/LVL) of Discrete Processes. • Expert in developing Cadence Pcells (Parameterized Cells) of Analog and Discrete processes. • Expert in developing Symbol, CDF (Component Description Format) and Callbacks of Analog and Discrete processes. • Expert in developing Cadence Technology Libraries of Analog and Discrete processes. • Expert in validating Process Design Kit (PDK QA) using various test cases. • Expert in developing tools and scripts of PDK Automation and Design Environment enhancement • Expert in troubleshooting (providing solutions, workaround and, fix bugs) on environment issues and bugs of PDK and Design issues. • Experienced in programming using SKILL(Cadence Script Language), Perl, TCL and Csh/Bash Shell Script • Experienced in migrating verification rule decks among Dracula, Diva, Assura and Calibre. • Experienced in migrating Cadence Platform from CDB to OA using automation script developed myself. • Experienced in evaluating various frontend/backend tools of Mentor and Cadence. • Experienced in establishing methodologies on PDK development flows • Experienced in collaborating relationships with EDA tool vendors (Cadence and Mentor). • Experienced in working with Design IT to enhance and rollout infrastructure changes in environment setup and license management. • Experienced Commercial EDA tools: Cadence ADE/Spectre/AMS/Encounter/RTL Compiler • Experienced in using and supporting data revision control systems: Synchronicity, Cliosoft , ICmanage • Experienced in collaborating relationships with EDA tool vendors (Cadence and Mentor)