Chip/VLSI Design

Dear Sirs,

I am an experienced chip professional with more than 8 years of design career. I am particularly specialized in FPGA, ASIC and SOC design and I am also skilled at designing mixed analog, digital circuits and asynchronous cisrcuits. Since 2006 I entered into the VLSI industry at several semiconductor corporations and design firms and have designed numerous chips in various industry fields for a number of clients. As a result I am familiar with the entire design process and methodologies, particularly the back end layout design - partitioning, floorplanning, placement and routing. I am well acquainted with major placement and routing algorithms and I am also experienced with the mainstream CAD/EDA tools such as those from Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys, SPICE etc. I am also in good command of Verilog/ VHDL.

I am also very much interested in chip design related math and algorithms and I am currently focusing on the graph theoretical and combinatorial algorithms for the promising VLSI technologies such as FPGA, SOC, NOC, 3D (three dimensional) , and reconfigurable computing.

As a master of science of one of the top universities in China and as a PhD candidate of several top world universities, I possess sound foundation of semiconductor physics as well as basics of analog and digital ICs and components. I am familiar with the semiconductor components and CMOS processing technologies as well.

English has been my working language for many years and hence my proficiency of English is at the native level. German as well as French, is also among my linguistic menu along with several other less skilled languages such as Russian and Greek. I used to be one of the key personnel in multinationals of other, non-silicon industries.

I pretty much enjoy team work and with my own group of IC engineers I am enjoying a career and life which only the happiest folks in the world may share. Therefore I would like very much to share my joy with you as well, while delivering my excellent chip expertise.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Chen