ASIC Design / DV Engineers

Company: LeapFrog Semi
Location: San Diego
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Leapfrog SemiconductorSuitable title would be conferred depending on the candidate's experience. Candidates meeting the below requirements may share their resumes by sending it to the email id: jobs@leapfrogsemi.com. Alternate email id: schakravarthy@leapfrogsemi.com

• Post-graduates with a background in Electronics, Computer Science, Digital Signal processing, Communication Systems. Candidates skilled in HDLs (Verilog / VHDL / SystemVerilog), and are conversant with the basics of Digital Electronics System Design.
• Graduate HW engineers at all levels of industry experience in any of the following areas to applyHW engineering (Design and Verification) at Leapfrog: A sampling of responsibilities:
  • Micro-architecture, RTL implementation, verification of DSP data-path hardware (LDPC Encoder/Decoder, FFT, Filters etc) - for Leapfrog's SIMD processor core
  • Develop, integrate and verify various SoC components like NoCs, Interrupt Controllers, Debug Systems, SoC Peripherals, High Speed Interconnects like 100G Ethernet, JESD, PCIe, DDR etc
  • Develop testbenches and test automation using appropriate methodology (UVM/C/System Verilog/Python) for IP / Subsystem and Full chip verification
  • Develop FPGA based prototyping platform for system performance and software development
  • Participate in discussions with algorithms engineers and Software engineers to discover optimal solutions to complex system level problems
  • Work on various front-end tool flow including lint, CDC, Coverage analysis, synthesis, STA , Power
  • Work with embedded platforms (hardware emulation systems,reference systems, customer platforms,) to validate the hardware and evaluate system performance in the lab
  • Discover ways to improve way-of-working, by creating internal tools, scripts for automation -
  • Analyze customer requirements to evaluate improvements to the hardware
  • Work on post silicon activities to bring up, validate and characterize the performance of the fabricated silicon in lab -HW Design engineer at Leapfrog: Experience/Skills checklist
    • Experience domains:
      • Should have been part of multiple tape-outs
      • Experience on multiple frontend tools flow ( spyglass, synthesis, constraint validation, power analysis, LEC,Coverage analysis)
      • For DSP / Datapath IP developers
        • Should have hands-on DSP hardware implementation ( RTL coding, synthesis) experience with good understanding of digital communication concepts, - DSP algorithms, fixed point /floating point arithmetic, DSP data path optimizations
          • Background in FFT/LDPC/ Digital filter design is desirable
          • Background in baseband hardware design for WLAN/LTE/Bluetooth /Cable Modem/5G technologies is desirable
          • Background in RTL implementation of SIMD / Vector processing engines
          • For SoC Developers
            • Should have owned large SOC / Subsystems integration with in depth domain knowledge of one or multiple areas below
              • CPU Subsystem components : Memory controllers, Interconnects IPs , Interrupt controllers etc
              • Integration of complex IPs like PCIE, Ethernet ( MAC and PCS), DDR controller - -
              • SOC Power Management - -HW Design Verification engineer at Leapfrog: Experience/Skills checklist
                • Experience domains:
                  • For Design Verification engineers
                    • proficient in -
                      • SV and UVM
                      • C
                      • Design/Architecture development of testbench-bench environment, test automation, test planning and execution
                      • Should have owned verification of IP/Subsystem/SOC level verification like, - -
                        • Interface / Networking IPs like PCIE, Ethernet ( MAC and PCS), JESD ,
                        • Memory Controllers, - DDR Interface, DMAs
                        • Systems having NOC Interconnects, multiple CPUs, SoC peripherals, interrupt controller, debug hardware etc
                        • DSP Data pathPowered by JazzHR

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