Skills and Tools

Formal languages:

• Programming languages: C, C++, Matlab (and in earlier times: Common Lisp, Algol, Pascal, Fortran, etc.).
• Hardware description languages: VHDL, Verilog, Verilog-AMS, SystemC, ART-C, Arx.
• Scripting languages: Tcl, awk, sed, bash, csh, make.
• Web development: HTML, CSS, PHP.

Design automation tools:

• Synopsys RT-level design: Design Compiler, Primetime, Test Compiler, Power Compiler, Formality, Tetramax.
• Synopsys system-level design: CoCentric System Studio.
• Mentor: Modelsim/Questasim, HDL Designer, Leonardo, DFT Advisor.
• Cadence: schematic entry, NCsim.
• Altera: Quartus II.

Other tools:

• Version management: Subversion, CVS, Synchronicity.
• Text processing: LaTeX, Framemaker, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, TimingDesigner,

Natural languages:

• Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, and Turkish at various degrees of fluency.