Business Unit Description
- AI Chip Engineering Digital IP team defines and develops components for a wide range of products, including automotive microprocessors, application processors, microcontrollers, and networking. The Austin Digital IP team develops components for DDR, Display Controller, high-speed serial links, cores, memory controllers, and interconnect.
Job Summary:
- Review IP architecture specifications, features and programming model, microarchitecture and interface specifications.
- Plan IP documentation and design, including providing schedule assessments.
- Design IP meeting requirements for quality and performance, using Verilog and System Verilog RTL, and vendor and internal checking tools.
- Collaborate with verification team to develop test plans and complete verification execution to 100% coverage, and as per NXP standard quality and maturity standards.
- Deliver completed IP, including RTL design and supporting documentation
- Track metrics during IP development, include development plan milestones, code and functional coverage, defect tickets, and tracing of requirements versus design specification.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide expert support to subsystem, SoC, validation, and applications engineering teams during product development.
Key challenges:
- Proving design meets all requirements and ensuring zero defects escape to silicon.
- Meeting committed schedules without compromising quality
Cross-functional aspects:
- Definition reviews with architecture teams and designers
- Planning with verification team, architecture team, and project manager
- Integration of digital IP, working with local and global SoC front-end design teams
- Support for local customers on IP, subsystem and SoC verification teams, emulation and silicon validation teams
- Support for applications engineers and end-customers to replicate and identify root cause field failures, and identify workarounds.
- Collaborate with local and global verification and tools development teams in developing improved methods of verification
Job Qualifications:
- Minimum BSEE/BSCE/BSCS
- Minimum 4 years of experience in IP or SoC design
- Knowledge of SoC architecture required
- Expert knowledge of Verilog required
- Experience with design quality checks, including Lint, clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, static timing analysis (STA)
- Expert knowledge of ARM AMBA bus protocol standards desired
- Knowledge of functional safety, including ISO26262 a plus
- Knowledge of CPU or cache architecture a plus
- Knowledge of C coding a plus
- Knowledge of scripting, such as Perl or Python, a plus
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NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
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