Yoan Dupret

CSR designs single-chip wireless devices. Our business started with a focus on solutions for the 2.4GHz Bluetooth® personal area networking standard; in November 2004, we entered the IEEE 802.11 marketplace - a family of wireless standards also referred to as 'Wi-Fi' or 'Wireless LAN' - with devices capable of operation in both the 2.4 and 5GHz frequency bands.
In the Bluetooth market, CSR is ranked #1 in every Bluetooth market segment with a unit market share in excess of 50%.
http://www.csr.com

In CSR, I'm working in the PDK team which is part of the Advanced Technology team. This includes the following tasks:

• Technical interface between foundry partner and internal analog/RF design teams
• Analog and RF design teams PDK support
• PDK development, QA and maintenance
• Benchmarking of EDA tools and best-in-class PDK practices
• Manager back-up, students (master and PhD) management

In Infineon, I was working in the Design Technology Interface Department in Villach, Austria. I was doing the interface between analogue designers and the foundries, for all the advanced CMOS plateforms (from 130nm to 65nm).

I was responsible of the analogue PCM (Process Control Monitoring) coordination between fabs and correlation with models.

I was doing the support of the analogue and RF design teams: control and updates of passives and actives Spice models, simulation vs production correlations, writing of design help tools, ...

I was also participating at the technology transfers activities, from one foundry to another.

I was organizing regular and on demand meetings, where last technologies and tools information were presented to the design teams.

"Modeling the performances of analog IP (Intellectual Property) taking into account the effects of process dispersions".

Developed and improved an existing statistical method to avoid the use of costly full circuit Monte Carlo simulations for circuit performances estimation.
Applied with success two theoretical methods to statistical circuit and manufacturing yield modeling.
Delivered statistical MOS models for an advanced Altis process.

Established analog circuits models in VHDL-AMS.

3 international publications, co-writing of a chapter in the "Semiconductor Manufacturing Handbook" published by McGraw Hill in 2005.

Assisted to the establishment of a model of the power consumption of an MPEG4 decoder.
Improved a parasitic capacitances extraction tool.
Implemented the resulting models in a cycle time simulator (CASS), in C.

Developed a software in SAS language for identifying the production tools with a defective behavior, with auto reporting. Implemented advanced Data Mining methods.
Taught new SAS tools to the engineering team.