E-Core CPU Design Automation Engineer
Intel
Job Details:
Job Description:
Performs physical design implementation of custom CPU designs from RTL to GDS to create a design database that is ready for manufacturing.
Conducts all aspects of the CPU physical design flow including synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, floor planning, static timing analysis, power/clock distribution, reliability, and power and noise analysis.
Conducts verification and signoff including formal equivalence verification, static timing analysis, reliability verification, static and dynamic power integrity, layout verification, electrical rule checking, and structural design checking.
Analyzes results and makes recommendations to improve current and future CPU microarchitectures closely collaborating with logic, circuit, architecture, and design automation teams.
Possesses CPU specific expertise in various aspects of structural and physical design, including physical clock design, timing closure, coverage analysis, multiple power domain analysis, structured placement, routing, synthesis, and DFT.
Works intimately with industry EDA vendors to build and enhance tool capabilities to design a highspeed, low power synthesizable CPU.
Optimizes CPU design to improve product level parameters such as power, frequency, and area.
Participates in the development and improvement of physical design methodologies and flow automation.
Qualifications:
Candidate must have a Bachelor's degree in Electronic/Electrical/Computer Engineering with 5+ years of experience in :
Deep understanding of most, if not all Physical Design and Verification Tools, Flows and Methods used in VLSI back-end custom-transistor based designs.
Expertise using industry standard Engineering Design Automation (EDA) VLSI tools from 1 or more of Synopsys, Cadence and/or Mentor Graphics in one of more of the following areas of: STA, Power, ECO, LVS, Power-rail integrity, Noise and/or ERC flows.
Deep understanding and experience of signoff aspects in STA for timing closure (OCV, constraints, parasitics), LVS, Static Power Analysis or Signal integrity analysis (Noise, SI-crosstalk).
Familiar with digital custom circuit transistor-level designs and topologies including dynamic circuit techniques and memories as well as SPICE models and netlists.
Desire to deep-dive into timing paths, perform QOR difference analysis and identify key issues.
Expertise with Linux environments and basic shell scripting.
Expertise is a must in 1 or more scripting languages such as Python, Perl and/or Tcl.
Knowledge in standard-cell liberty format syntax and digital circuit device-level SPICE modelling.
Knowledge in standard formats from 1 or more of transistor-level netlist, standard parasitic formats and/or SDC constraints.
EDA tool API coding.
Experience with advanced programming data structures.
Job Type:
Experienced HireShift:
Shift 1 (Malaysia)Primary Location:
Malaysia, PenangAdditional Locations:
Business group:
The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.Posting Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.Position of Trust
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