THE ROLE :
We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivative design engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMDs abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Physical Design Engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.
THE PERSON :
Engineer with good attitude who seeks new challenges and has good analytical and communication skills. Candidate needs to have the ability and desire to learn quickly and should be a good team player.
KEY RESPONSIBLITIES :
- Handling SOC floorplanning / Partitioning, Die size estimation
- Experience on abutted and non-abutted designs
- Handling of Hierarchical designs (Subfcs), Block partitioning, block pin placement, Feedthrough punching, HFN implementation
- Planning clock Mesh / Tree at SOC / Sub System level
- Full SOC bump planning including GPIO Bump Placement, Pad ring generation / GPIO placement, Hard IP bump placement, GPIO and PG RDL routing
- Handling different PNR tools - Synopsys Fusion Compiler, ICC2, Design Compiler, PrimeTime, StarRC, Mentor Graphics Calibre, Apache Redhawk, Cadence Genus, Innovus
- Provide technical support to other teams
P REFERRED EXPERIENCE :
12+ years of professional experience in physical design, preferably ASIC designs.Knowledge on bump placement / critical IP placement.Experience in automated synthesis and timing driven place and route of RTL blocks for high speed datapath and control logic applications.Experience in automated design flows for clock tree synthesis, clock and power gating techniques, scan stitching, design optimization for improved timing / power / area, and design cycle time reduction.Experience in floor planning, establishing design methodology, IP integration, checks for logic equivalence, physical / timing / electrical quality, and final signoff for large IP deliveryStrong experience with tools for logic synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and design checks for physical and electrical quality, familiarity with tools for schematics, layout, and circuit / logic simulationVersatility with scripts to automate design flow.Strong communication skills, ability to multi-task across projects, and work with geographically spread out teamsStrong analytical / problem solving skills and pronounced attention to detailsACADEMIC CREDENTIALS :
Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering / Electrical EngineeringSkills Required
Physical Design