ASIC Design Engineer – Fabric/Interconnect

Summary

At Apple, phenomenal ideas have a way of becoming great products and customer experiences very quickly. The industry is accustomed to Apple taping out the SOC’s for our various products at a rigorous pace. In order to achieve this, Apple’s best-in-class chip is driven by top notch design engineers who implement various blocks of the chip and deliver high quality components to SoC. This is a high transparency and critically important role and requires close working relationships with many groups and an organized approach to coordinate all tasks in parallel to hit schedules consistently with a quality design. Our position requires knowledge of interconnect fabrics and system memory hierarchy

Description

-Design & Integration of coherent and non-coherent fabrics into a subsystem or SoC with good understanding of on-chip interconnect architectures (NoC topologies, crossbars, arbitration).

• Own all aspects of RTL development design, templating, scripting and RTL generation.
• Work and collaborate with other designers in the group to deliver results.
• Integrate common/shared IP blocks to design and optimize memories/hard macros required for the block.
• Work with front-end synthesis/STA teams to ensure timing for the block is met.
• Work with power/performance and functional verification team to ensure high quality of the block.
• Work with multi-disciplinary groups to make sure designs are delivered on time and with the highest quality by incorporating proper checks at every stage of the design process

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum of BS + 0 years relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of cache coherency protocols (MESI, MOESI, directory-based coherence) and memory hierarchy.

A consistent track record of delivering large, sophisticated designs in high volume production for low power applications

Solid working experience with synthesis, power, performance and verification teams to develop and deliver high quality RTL design on time

Strong interpersonal skills, as the candidate will work with diverse groups within the company

Self-starter, highly motivated, highly organized, and schedule driven

Familiarity with all front-end tools including lint, CDC, synthesis