Dirk baumann
Physical Designer
Experience
2009 - Present
freelancer
Senior Layout Contractor
2004 - 2009
qimonda
System expert in the field of analogue & digital layout design in DRAM R&D and product development
2001 - 2004
infineon
Technical assistant, in the field of analogue & digital layout design in DRAM R&D and product development
key skills
tools
Cadence Virtuosom Mentor Grraphics, Synopsis Maxwell
programming
Cadence Skill , Perl, ShellScript, Tcl
layout
DRAM/CMOS technologies from 350nm down to 14nm, e.g. generators, bandgaps, pll’s, ESD, amplifiers, dll’s, coder/decoders, muxes, DRAM cells, NAND cells amongst other types of circuit
RF CMOS up to 20 GHz
deep understanding of lithography (anular, dipole, hexapol, double patterning), masktypes( htPSM, altPSM,COG, MoSi), Optical Proximity Correction and other enhancement techniques