• Design analog building blocks such as Analog Static RAM (ASRAM), ensuring support for complex readout formats including Dual Conversion Gain (DCG), Correlated Double Sampling (CDS), Correlated Multiple Sampling (CMS), and 4c2p.
• Perform complete schematic design flow, closely collaborate with layout engineers on device matching, symmetry, shielding, and routing for optimal noise performance and area efficiency.
• Carry out comprehensive post-layout verification, including Parasitic Extraction (PEX), Design Rule Check (DRC), Layout vs. Schematic (LVS), and Physical Electrical Rule Check (PERC) using Calibre.
• Conduct system-level analog simulation and CIS signal chain verification to ensure correct signal propagation from pixel through the entire analog front-end to digital input interface.
• Execute extensive process, voltage and temperature (PVT) and Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate functional robustness, and performance margins.
• Perform IR drop analysis and power integrity verification to ensure reliable power delivery and layout feasibility.
• Utilize Analog FastSPICE (AFS), Empyrean ALPS, and NanoSpice for block-level and full-chain validation under realistic operating scenarios.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts in Python and Perl to streamline simulation flow, including netlist generation, corner sweeping, batch result parsing, and yield analysis. Build scalable toolchains to support multi-corner, multi-mode simulations and regression testing, enhancing design turnaround and validation coverage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams with digital design, verification, process, and test to define analog-digital interface specifications, establish timing constraints, support readout calibration algorithms, and debug post-silicon performance issues.
• Participate in design reviews, tapeout signoff, and lab characterization, contributing to silicon bring-up and performance optimization.
• Operational amplifier and current mirror design,
• Noise analysis and feedback system,
• Evaluation of offset distortion and nonlinearity,
• Functional verification using ModelSim,
• Static timing analysis, power and area estimation,
• Standard-cell based logic and physical synthesis,
• Hardware scheduling and retiming,
• Number representation and digital arithmetic,
• Full analog IC design flow,
• Post-tapeout chip testing and validation,
• VLSI circuit and system design using Verilog,
• Architecture design space exploration,
• Spectrum Analyzer.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- Advanced coursework in Analog Integrated Circuit, CMOS Circuit Design, RF Circuits and Systems Design, VLSI System Design, and VLSI Signal Processing
- Analog circuit design using MOS models
- Operational amplifier and current mirror design
- Noise analysis and feedback systems
- Evaluation of offset, distortion, and nonlinearity
- Functional verification using ModelSim
- Static timing analysis, power estimation, and area estimation
- Standard-cell based logic and physical synthesis
- Hardware scheduling and retiming
- Number representation and digital arithmetic
- Full analog IC design flow
- Post-tapeout chip testing and validation
- VLSI circuit and system design using Verilog
- Architecture design space exploration
- Spectrum Analyzer proficiency
What We Do
Founded in 1995, OMNIVISION has been at the leading-edge of technology, developing and delivering advanced digital imaging, analog, and touch & display solutions for multiple applications across several industries. With more than 3,000 employees worldwide and over 13 billion products shipped, OMNIVISION is a well-known global fabless semiconductor company. Our products can be found everywhere in people’s lives including mobile phones, security & surveillance, automotive, computing, medical, and emerging applications. Across these segments, OMNIVISION’S award-winning technology enables a smoother human/machine interface in many of today’s commercial devices. In this way, OMNIVISION delivers solutions that put its customers at the leading edge of technology. Whether it be developing the first mobile handset camera accessory in 2002, introducing the world’s smallest NTS camera in 2006 or launching PureCel CMOS image sensors in 2013, our dedication to providing reliable, innovative imaging and sensing solutions continue to be the primary aim. The company has recorded numerous industry firsts in its relentless quest for technology breakthroughs that deliver #InfiniteIngenuity: • Guinness World Record for the World's Smallest Commercially Available Image Sensor (OV6948) in 2019. In 2021, it beat its own record with the new OH0TA OVMed® • First to commercialize backside illumination technology in 2007 (OmniBSI™) • Industry's 1st to deploy the most mature LED Flicker Mitigation (LFM) solution in mass production for multiple automotive applications • Automotive industry leader with HALE, our HDR & LFM Engine combination algorithm • Developer of Nyxel® near-infrared technology with by far the best quantum efficiency in CMOS near-infrared imagine • Creator of CameraCubeChip™, the industry’s 1st wafer-level camera modules • First and only global shutter image sensors with cybersecurity, for ADAS and autonomous vehicles • First to introduce RBG-Ir technology to medical
