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CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

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Beaverton, OR - USA

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Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

As a CPU RTL Architect 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 BS and 3 years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with microprocessor cache design or coherent system cache design
  • Experience with Verilog and/or VHDL


  • Knowledge of microprocessor architecture
  • Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
  • Expertise in one or more of the following areas: Coherence protocols and interconnects high performance (low latency high bandwidth) design techniques or 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

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