ASIC Engineer – Physical Design

ASIC Engineer – Physical Design

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience in interpersonal, teamwork, communication skills and experience interfacing with cross-functional teams, IP, and EDA vendors
• Experience in physical design and timing closure
• Experience with large SOC designs (>20M gates) with frequencies over 1GHZ
• Experience in floor planning, place & route, power and clock distribution, and timing convergence of high-frequency designs
• Experience with EDA tools like DC/Genus, Innovus/ICC2, Primetime, Redhawk/Voltus, or Calibre
• Programming/scripting skills: TCL, Python, Perl or Shell
• Knowledge of RTL2GDSII flow and design tape-outs in 5nm or below process technologies
• Knowledge of geometry/process/device technology implications on physical design

Responsibilities

• Develop and own physical design implementation of multi-hierarchy low-power and high-performance designs, including physical-aware logic synthesis, floorplan, place and route, clock tree synthesis, static timing analysis, IR drop, EM, and physical verification in advanced technology nodes
• Resolve design and flow issues related to the physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution
• Deliver physical design of an end-to-end IP or integration of ASIC/SoC design and point out lower power and higher performance trade-offs
• Define and implement schemes, including semi-custom placement and routing, to improve performance and power
• Work with the RTL design team to understand partition architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle
• Interface with the RTL design team to drive design modifications to resolve congestion/timing issues and implement functional ECO’s
• Use EDA tool-based programming and scripting techniques to automate and improve throughput and quality
• Interact with tool vendors to drive tool fixes and flow improvements. Perform tool evaluations of new vendor tools and functions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in full chip floor planning, partitioning, budgeting, and power grid planning
• Experience with low power implementation, power gating, multiple voltage rails, UPF/CPF knowledge
• Experience in planning, implementing, and analyzing high-speed clock distribution networks. Experience with alternate strategies for clock distribution, including standard trees, mesh, H-Tree, and clock power reduction techniques
• Knowledge of static timing analysis and concepts, defining timing constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions
• Knowledge of Circuit design, device physics, and sub-micron technology
• Experience in the physical design of data-path intensive designs
• Experience in the 3D-IC technology, methodology, and advanced packaging
• Experience in validating Power Distribution Network (PDN), IR/EM, Thermals for 3D-IC