Cache Microarchitecture & Logic Design

Responsibilities

• As a Cache Microarchitecture & Logic Design Engineer, you will own or participate in the following:
• Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
• Development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
• Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power
• Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification
• Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor or SOC design with 2+ years of direct work experience in one or more of the following areas: 
• High performance cache controllers - pipeline design, hazard detection, parity/ECC generation, coherency policies, replacement policies
• Coherent on-chip Fabrics for high performance SOCs and design of associated control structures
• Knowledge of SystemVerilog
• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
• Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
• Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
• Experience in C or C++ programming