CPU Systems RTL Engineer

Required for this Role:

• MS degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of CPU RTL or similar experience.
• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: Timers, Interrupt controller, Configuration access protocols, RAS and safety aspects, AMU/PMU architecture, Power management architectures – Active and Idle power management, Limit and clock architecture, Debug/Trace and scan dump architecture
• Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications.

Preferred qualifications:

• MS degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering.
• Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques.
• Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture.
• Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python.

Roles and Responsibilities:

As an RTL engineer you will own or participate in the following:

• Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.
• Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.
• RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.
• Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.
• Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
• Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power.
• Work alongside with Software, Firmware and platform team to make CPU systems features enabled in the products.

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