IC Design Engineer

IC Design Engineer

Requirements

• BS+12 Years of relevant industry experience. Advanced degree preferred
• Must have strong Logic Design, RTL coding (Verilog HDL) and debugging skills
• Must have an understanding of low power design and validation techniques including UPF/CPF
• Must be familiar with design constraint generation, logic synthesis, timing closure analysis and Clock/Reset domain crossing checks
• Must be able to assist in silicon and FPGA debug and bring-up

Responsibilities

• Participate in IP level architectural definition including micro-architecture definition
• Perform RTL design using Verilog HDL, with an emphasis on performance and area
• Implement multi-power and low-power designs
• Analyze and resolve Lint and Clock/Reset Domain crossing issues in the design
• Collaborate with verification team on test plan development, debugging, and coverage closure
• Collaborate with physical design team on constraint generation, timing closure analysis, formal verification, low power checks using UPF/CPF flows and ECO implementation.
• Support system level validation efforts on FPGA/emulation
• Support silicon bring-up and debug efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the following are highly desired: ARM CPUs, Memory controllers, Peripherals such as I2C, SPI and UART, Peripherals and interconnect protocols such as APB, AHB and AXI
• Experience with the following are a definite advantage: Digital Signal Processing designs, usage of Matlab and Simulink, Scripting languages such as (Python perl/tcl), Mixed signal design