About

Vishnu Kumar is a highly experienced Software Architect with over 16 years of experience in software product development. He is currently working at Cadence Design Systems as a Software Architect, where he is responsible for designing and implementing EDA software solutions for semiconductor chip designing tools. Vishnu is an expert in developing new and enhancing existing applications in the field of EDA domain. He is conversant with ASIC flows, at a flow and point tool level. He has developed multiple SPICE based flows for delay (base and SI) analysis, clock tree analysis and back annotation, signal EM, cycle-to-cycle Jitter analysis, IR aware timing and glitch analysis. These flows are in use for correlation, what-if analysis, and closing last few outliers. With two patents awarded and one patent pending and two publications, Vishnu has proven his expertise in software architecture and design, IT consulting, designing, debugging, and automation, data structure and algorithms, multi-core and multi-threaded programming, TCL scripting, C, C++, Unix, and Linux. He has ample hands-on experience in DC (Delay Calculation), SI Delay & Glitch, Static Timing Analysis (STA) and D-STA (Distributed STA), Noise Characterizer Tools, and EDA Design Flows. Vishnu has also led technical teams for developing new and enhancing existing software applications to achieve business goals. He has worked as a Sr. Principal Software Eng (R&D) and a Principal Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems in the past. In these roles, he was responsible for developing and enhancing SPICE based flows for correlation, what-if analysis, and closing last few outliers for delay (base and SI), clock mesh analysis and back annotation, flow for signal EM, and flow for cycle-to-cycle Jitter analysis, IR aware timing Analysis flow and glitch analysis and recently started working on D-STA, IR aware STA, and cycle-to-cycle Jitter analysis. With relevant experience of 20.63 years, Vishnu Kumar is a highly skilled and knowledgeable Software Architect who is always looking for new and innovative ways to solve complex problems.