ALTEN ยท 5 months ago
Senior Physical Design Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelALTEN is a company focused on providing engineering services, and they are seeking a Senior Physical Design Engineer to manage SOC Physical Design implementation. The role involves working with Synopsys EDA tools and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet SOC development objectives.
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Responsibilities
Responsible for doing all aspects of SOC Physical Design implementation
Representing Synopsys under the Design Services organization working on physical design implementation for SOC programs
Working with Synopsys team members and customer augmentation with well-defined responsibilities
Highly proficient in using all the Synopsys EDA tools/flows with little to no ramp-up time needed
RTL Hand-over experience a plus for RTL to GDS
Experience with top-level floorplanning, bump-maps, RDL IO Pad/Ring creation/verification, power grid creation/verification, hierarchal floorplanning/partitioning
Solid experience with full SOC clocking methodologies (H-Tree, Structure Clocking, MS CTS for Top/Blocks with push/down & bottoms up approaches)
Highly proficient with SDC STA constraints development driving back-end tools for blocks and full-chip through timing closure & sign-off
Ability to define sign-off requirements/margins based on Foundry technology requirements a plus
DFT experience with compression, scan, TDF, and MEMBIST a plus
Synopsys Formality for formal verification (RTL to Gate, Gate-to-Gate) & Formality ECO flows
Familiar with UPF flows & methodologies for multi-voltage power domains with turn on/turn off using UPF
Synopsys ICV for PV (Physical Verification - DRC/ERC/LVS/PERC)
Ansys Redhawk SC (For IR analysis for static, dynamic, & EMIR)
Experience in PD implementation/design closure on complex IP Sub-Systems such as PCIe, USB, MIPI, DDR, & HBM a plus
Experience with GlobalFoundries, TSMC, & Samsung technology nodes a plus
Consultants should have a solid track record on execution delivering to high-quality standards to delivering to high quality tape-out
Work well with cross-functional team members both within Synopsys and with customers to meet their SOC development objectives
Qualification
Required
Synopsys Fusion Compiler/ICC2 (Synthesis, DFT insertion, Place & Route, Chip Finishing, PT-SI STA, Timing Closure, PV (DRC/ERC/PERC/LVS/)
Synopsys DC, DCG, DC TOPO
Synopsys Flow Development & SOC implementation methodologies that will be deployed and used by our Synopsys customer Physical Design Implementation team members
Solid experience with full SOC clocking methodologies (H-Tree, Structure Clocking, MS CTS for Top/Blocks with push/down & bottoms up approaches)
Highly proficient with SDC STA constraints development driving back-end tools for blocks and full-chip through timing closure & sign-off
Ability to define sign-off requirements/margins based on Foundry technology requirements
Synopsys Formality for formal verification (RTL to Gate, Gate-to-Gate) & Formality ECO flows
Familiar with UPF flows & methodologies for multi-voltage power domains with turn on/turn off using UPF
Synopsys ICV for PV (Physical Verification - DRC/ERC/LVS/PERC)
Ansys Redhawk SC (For IR analysis for static, dynamic, & EMIR)
Consultants should have a solid track record on execution delivering to high-quality standards to delivering to high quality tape-out
Preferred
Familiar with Synopsys Lynx
RTL Hand-over experience a plus for RTL to GDS
Experience with top-level floorplanning, bump-maps, RDL IO Pad/Ring creation/verification, power grid creation/verification, hierarchal floorplanning/partitioning
DFT experience with compression, scan, TDF, and MEMBIST a plus
Experience in PD implementation/design closure on complex IP Sub-Systems such as PCIe, USB, MIPI, DDR, & HBM a plus
Experience with GlobalFoundries, TSMC, & Samsung technology nodes a plus
Company
ALTEN
Alten is high-technology consulting and engineering group. The group's services are supplied to technical departments.
Founded in 1988
10001+ employees
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