CPU Design Verification - Staff Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

o Responsible for power management verification includes Boot, Reset, clock gating, power gating, Voltage/frequency management, limit management and throttling.

o Work closely with design/verification teams within CPU to develop comprehensive test plan.

o Use simulation and formal verification methodologies to execute test plans. Write checkers, assertions and develop stimulus.

o Verify power intent through use of methodologies like UPF.

o Work closely with system architects, software teams and Soc team to validate system use cases.

o Work closely with emulation team to enable verification on emulators and FPGA platforms.

o Debug and triage failures in simulation, emulation and/or Silicon.

o Experience in power management verification.

o Implementation of assembly and C language embedded firmware.

o Experience in C/C++, scripting languages, Verilog/system Verilog.

o Strong understanding of power management features in CPUs and CPU based Socs.

o Experience in verification of power management features such as clock gating, power gating, UPF, DVFS/DCVS, reliability, throttling etc.

Preferred Requirements:

o Good Understanding of CPU architectures and CPU micro-architectures.

o In-depth knowledge of digital logic design, micro-processor, debug feature, and DFT architecture and microarchitecture

o Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal and assertions is a plus

o Knowledge and verification experience in DFT and structural debug concepts and methodologies: JTAG, IEEE1500, MBIST, scan dump, memory dump is a plus