Staff Emulation Engineer
Alphawave Semi
PerlPythonShell Scripting
Job Level
Junior
Tech Stack
Perl
About the role
- Lead all block/chip level physical design (PD) activities including floor plans, abstract view generation, RC extraction, PNR, STA, EM, IR drop, DRCs and schematic-to-layout verification.
- Work in collaboration with design team to address design challenges and achieve timing/physical closure.
- Help team members in debugging tool/design related issues and provide proactive intervention for difficult design problems.
- Constantly look for improvements in the RTL2GDS flow to improve PPA (power, performance, area).
- Responsible for all aspects of physical design and implementation of GPUs and other ASICs targeted at desktop, laptop, workstation, and mobile markets.
Requirements
- BE/BTECH/MTECH, or equivalent experience.
- 1+ years of experience in Physical Design.
- Strong understanding in the RTL2GDSII flow or design implementation in leading process technologies.
- Good understanding of the RTL2GDSII concepts related to synthesis, place & route, CTS, timing convergence, layout closure.
- Expertise on high frequency design methodologies.
- Good knowledge and experience in Block-level and Full-chip Floor-planning and Physical verification.
- Working experience with tools like ICC2/Innovus, Primetime/Tempus etc used in the RTL2GDSII implementation.
- Strong knowledge and experience in standard place and route flows ICC2/Synopsys and Innovus/Cadence flows preferred.
- Well versed with timing constraints, STA and timing closure.
- Good automation skills in PERL, TCL, tool specific scripting on one of the industry leading Place & Route tools.
- Proficiency using Perl, Tcl, Make scripting is preferred.
- Ability to multi-task and flexibility to work in global environment.
- Good communication skills and strong motivation.
- Strong analytical & Problem solving skills.
