Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®.
Job Req ID: 553741
Job Posting Title: Sr Staff Physical Design Design Engineer
City: Santa Clara
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: N/A
Percent of Travel Required: 0%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: ENG-Hardware-IC Design
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ownership of design floor planning, synthesis, DFT, place and route, clock and power distribution, static timing analysis, signal integrity analysis, physical verification.
- Use circuit design skills to verify clock and power implementation.
- Contribute to developing physical design methodologies and RTL to GDS flow automation.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- BSEE, MSEE Preferred
- 6+ years directly related physical design expertise in state of the art ICs with emphasis on VLSI physical design and methodology on 45 and 28 nanometer process nodes.
- Must have a proven track record of delivering tape-out quality GDSII with silicon success.
- A solid understanding of digital circuit design and Verilog.
- Able to analyze static timing paths for high speed digital blocks, and implement design fixes to meet block frequency target.
- Basic understanding for circuit design of custom macro blocks such as RAMs, Register Files, CAMs, high-speed IO drivers and other IP cells.
- Power user of place and route tools such as Atoptech, ICC, Magma or Cadence SOCe
- Able to identify, extract and simulate critical paths using Hspice.
- Able to create schematics from RTL for semi-custom designs.
- Strong hands on familiarity with Design Compiler, Calibre, Hspice, LEC, Formality, Primetime SI, Redhawk and StarRC preferred.
- Proficiency using Perl, TCL.
- Able to work in a small team environment.
- Self Motivator and excellent problem solving skills.
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
Nearest Major Market: San Jose
Nearest Secondary Market: Palo Alto
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