Pre-Silicon Digital Verification Engineer
Join an accomplished team at Apple developing custom integrated circuits for Apple's existing and future product lines. As a member of our PMU ASIC team, you will be responsible for verifying complex digital IP's. You will work with the product teams, system architects, and digital designers, in refining microarchitecture specifications. You will use the specifications to build verification plans to exercise the functional, performance, stress cases, and error conditions in your blocks. You will own the creation of the verification testbenches, using formal verification and UVM based simulation. Then you will build the testcases using System Verilog Assertions and constrained random UVM testcases to get complete functional and code coverage for your blocks.
You will participate in code reviews of other blocks in the chips, offering proposals to more efficiently achieve our goal (and outstanding track record) of delivering bug free designs on the first tapeout. In addition to traditional digital circuit simulation, you will have the opportunity to learn and use other verification techniques such as formal verification, digital mixed signal verification, and analog mixed signal simulation using state-of-the-art tools. We have a flexible approach to problem solving that allows team members to tailor methodologies to optimize their productivity.
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Description
You will have the responsibilities as follows:
Collaborate in developing precise design specifications for digital control blocks
Use design specifications to create block and chip level verification plans
Architect and create block level verification elements
Assist in architecting chip and system level verification environments.
Use System Verilog and UVM to develop drivers, tests, reference models and checkers
Debug test failures and work with designers to develop fixes
Use formal verification to prove assertions derived from microarchitecture specifications
Use functional and code coverage to track progress and gauge tapeout readiness
Preferred Qualifications
At least 10 years of experience in ASIC pre silicon verification or design
Extensive course work in digital design and computer architecture
Foundation in object oriented programming techniques
Lab courses or work experience with System Verilog
Familiar with constrained random verification techniques
Familiarity with clock domain crossing design and verification techniques
Knowledge of digital ASIC development flow
Familiarity with power reduction techniques in digital ASICs
Minimum Qualifications
BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience
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