Ivan Stefanov

Background

About Ivan Stefanov

Investigate, Commit, Overdeliver. Bridging the well-known gap between the Analog Designer and the Design Enablement team since 2022. Professional mediator and successful advocate for PDK Quality and Customer requirements with deep technical knowledge throughout the Analog domain. Debugging abilities and skills include, but are not limited to-Exceptional communication skills with breathing things (people and cats, not chatbots)-Design environments (Virtuoso/CC)-Verification and sign-off tools (Calibre/ICV/PVS)-Compact Model Cards, Analog simulators and environments (Spectre/HSPICE/PrimeSim, ADE, PrimeWave)-Semiconductor FEOL Reliability mechanisms (TDDB, HCI, BTI)-Understanding of Manufacturing/Process/Device physics -Surface level ESD/Latch-up knowledge, more than enough to drive the point across -Great Corporate/Domain architecture/Networking experience, Troubleshooting internal systems and the local office's intranet issues with IT-Deep understanding of Linux (I use arch btw) 28nm Platform stakeholder and AE Technical Champion. CEO Business Award holder of 2024 by going above and beyond the regular scope of AE. Certified rabbit hole explorer - I will find the root cause and propose a solution for it. You happen to have a question? I will address it. Curiosity killed both the cat and the bug in the PDK.