ASIC Implementation Engineer – Synthesis

ASIC Implementation Engineer – Synthesis

Requirements

• 10+ Years of experience as a Front End Synthesis & Integration Engineer
• Experience with RTL Synthesis and design optimization for Power, Performance, Area
• Knowledge of front-end and back-end ASIC tools
• Experience with RTL design using SystemVerilog or other HDL
• Experience managing multiple design releases and working with cross functional teams to support and debug timing, area, power issues
• Experience with communicating across functional internal teams and vendors
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Run Logic/Physical Synthesis using advanced optimization techniques and generate optimized Gate Level Netlist for Timing, Area, Power
• Debug the timing/area/congestion issues and work with RTL & Physical designers to resolve them
• Perform Power Estimation at RTL and Gate Level and identify power reduction opportunities
• Run Formal Verification checks between RTL and Gate level netlist and debug the aborts, inconclusive and Logic Equivalency failures
• Perform RTL Lint and work with the Designers to create waivers
• Perform RTL DFT Analysis and improve the DFT coverage for Stuck-at faults
• Develop Timing Constraints for RTL-Synthesis and PrimeTime-STA for the blocks and the top-level including SOC. Analyze the inter-block timing and come up with IO budgets for the various partition blocks
• Developing Automation scripts and Methodology for all FE-tools including (Lint, CDC, RDC, Synthesis, STA, Power)
• Work closely with the Design Engineers, DV Engineers, Emulation Engineers in supporting them with the handoff tasks. Interact with Physical Design Engineers and provide them with timing/congestion feedback

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SOC Design Integration and Front-End Implementation
• Knowledge of Physical Design flow such as Floorplanning, CTS, Routing
• Good Understanding of Timing/physical libraries, SRAM Memories
• Knowledge of STA signoff and understanding of AOCV, POCV
• Experience with low power techniques for reducing power
• Experience with EDA tools and scripting languages (Python, TCL) used to build tools and flows
• Experience with Design Compiler, Spyglass, PrimeTime, Formality or equivalent tools