Silicon Microarchitecture & Logic Design

Responsibilities

• Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
• Development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
• Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification
• Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance
• Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor or system architecture in one or more of the following areas: 
• CPU: Instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, cache and memory subsystems
• SOC: Fabric and network-on-chip solutions, high performance system-memory solutions, controllers for high speed I/O like PCI Express, low speed I/O like i2c, Power-management and power delivery
• Knowledge of SystemVerilog
• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
• Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
• Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
• Experience in C or C++ programming
• Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

Education and Experience

• PhD, Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in technical subject area.