CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Waltham,Massachusetts,United States

Hardware

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Description

As a CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: • Micro-architecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration, through micro-architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification. • RTL ownership - development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals. • Verification - support the verification team in test bench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for formal verification • Performance exploration and correlation - explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance. • Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and verify physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

• Knowledge of microprocessor architecture

• Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL

• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools

• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Coherence protocols and interconnects

• High performance (low latency, high bandwidth) design techniques

• Memory subsystem queuing, scheduling; starvation and deadlock avoidance

• SRAM design basics

• Multiple clock/power domains and power management strategies

• Prefetchers, replacement policies

• Debug capabilities

• DFT strategies

• Error detection and correction

• Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques

• Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture

• Experience in C or C++ programming

• Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

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