Ruben Molina

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Ruben Molina is director of product marketing for StarRC Extraction and In-design Rail Analysis at Synopsys. Prior to joining Synopsys, he held marketing director positions at Cadence, Magma Design Automation and Extreme DA, where he was the responsible for directing business development and product marketing for static timing analysis and parasitic extraction products. He also has held senior management and technical positions at LSI Logic in the areas of design methodology, and spent several years as an IC designer for Hughes Aircraft, Radar Systems Group. Molina holds a BS in Engineering and MSEE from California State University, Los Angeles. He is the co-author of seven U.S. patents.

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No More Pizza! The Power Of HPC To Answer: “What’s For Dinner?”

By Ruben Molina - 26 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

The other night my wife and I were trying to pick a place we could both agree on for dinner. If you’ve ever been in this situation, you know it can be a difficult problem to solve. I decided to short circuit the usual torture by asking our virtual assistant for a solution. “Hey [Virtual Assistant], where’s a good place to eat?” Thus ensued 15 minutes of intermittent, wrong answers, misc... » read more

“Good Enough For Government Work?” Not Anymore.

By Ruben Molina - 26 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

When I was an engineer fresh out of college, I worked for a large defense contractor in southern California. The workplace was filled with employees that worked their whole life with the company; some of them for as many as 40 years. To get an idea of how many people I’m talking about, there was a retirement party for at least 3 or 4 people every week just in our division. You can imagine tha... » read more

3D Extraction Necessities For 5nm And Below

By Ruben Molina - 25 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

For most of my career in product marketing I’ve been focused on Static Timing Analysis (STA). It was, and still is, an area with a diverse set of topics including graph based analysis and path based analysis, on-chip variation modeling, delay calculation, evolving library models, etc. During those years I always understood that parasitic extraction was a crucial element of STA and more impo... » read more