Clayton Abel

Design and Verification Engineer

Tekmos•  September 2018 - June 2021

- Served as lead engineer and customer liaison on several major client projects, e.g. Collins Aerospace, Honeywell, and BAE - Created detailed Verilog test benches for design verification based on customers data sheets - Performed failure analysis on a chip with an unintentional SCR - Assisted head project Engineers in RTL design and synthesis of microchips - Quickly learned new programming languages based on customers' desired final language type, e.g. VHDL for Honeywell - Reverse engineered designs based on the customers datasheet - Designed PCB’s for long-term and high-temp reliability studies - Created microchip bonding diagrams - Created data sheets for each project - Collaborated with the head of the Quality Department to streamline the design process - Coordinated with Test Engineers to create reliability tests - Worked with the Resource Procurement Department to create a custom high temperature ceramic package for a flash design - Debugged product testing failures and coordinated with third-party manufacturing companies - Hosted a high-temperature semiconductor exhibit with the Tekmos President at the 2019 IMAPS Hi-TEN conference in Oxford, UK