Vani K.

About Vani K.

14+ years of experiance in the semiconductor industry, specializing in custom analog EDA tools development, automation, and analog/mixed-signal layout design. Currently holding the role of Principal Product Engineer at Cadence Design Systems with over a decade of tenure in various product and validation roles.Expert in Analog Layout Migration across multiple foundry nodes (including TSMC N2, N3, N5, N7, etc.). Proven track record in defining tool requirements, creating prototypes, developing automation scripts, and collaborating with R&D for new feature development and software release planning.Key Expertise:EDA Tools & Flow Development: Specializes in Virtuoso Analog Layout Migration, Auto Place & Route, and verification flows (DRC/LVS/RC Extraction/EMIR) using tools like Virtuoso XL/EXL/MXL, PEGASUS, QUANTUS, VOLTUS-FI, Calibre, and Assura.Customer & Product Focus: Highly skilled in customer interaction, flow adoption, issue debugging, providing training/demos, and creating technical documentation (RAK, user manuals, technical blogs).Layout Design: Prior experience as an Analog Layout Designer on projects like PLL and SERDES across various process nodes (3nm to 180nm), focusing on floor planning, routing, EM/IR, DRC, and LVS checks

Experience

1. Principal Product Engineer

   Cadence

   Nov 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Product engineer for virtuoso custom Analog layout Migration - Provide extensive support to worldwide Application Engineers(AEs) and customer for Migration flow,Auto Place and route -Responsible for defining tool requirements, use model and solutions- Create proto - types for GUI, form and features- Work with R&D to define/develop new features and software release planning- Provide training and demo of new flow and features to Application Engineers- Work with foundry team for flow pipe clean on different process nodes- Work with Early customers for new flow adoption, flow pipe-clean with their testcase data, issues fixes, EHF build delivery- I work with marketing team for tool and flow promotional videos, materials and events- Do customer interactions with account teams. Visits and give presentations, demos, code testing, customer follow-up for issues and new requirements- Customer benchmarking. work with customer testcase and validate results with golden data- Prepare RAK, training materials for internal and external customers- I work with documentation team for user manual, new flow, features update and technical blog writing- I work with product validation team on test plan creation and validation- Work with world-wide teams and customers.

Education

• Banasthali Vidyapith

  10th

• Banasthali University

  M.tech, VLSI

• Banasthali University

  B.SC, Maths,CS,Electronics

• Banasthali Vidyapith

  12th, PCM

• Banasthali university

  M.sc, Electronics