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We are looking for a strong candidate to join our CPU team focusing on power budgeting, analysis, and identification of recovery opportunities at the cross-section of micro-architecture, RTL, physical design, and technology in high performance designs.
Description
As a CPU Power Engineer, you will have the following responsibilities:
• Analyze and estimate the power impact of implementing new micro-architectural features
• Generate power rollups and projected estimates from initial to mature net lists through the lifecycle of a project • Analyze power contributions to generate opportunities for recovery in physical implementation as well as RTL
• Create power projections factoring in expected cost of convergence and implementation and refine the process
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum BS and 15+ years of relevant industry experience
- Perl/Python and TCL scripting experience from industry usage
- Experience with CPU architecture and implementation
Preferred Qualifications
- - The ideal candidate should have broad knowledge related to micro-architecture, physical implementation, auto place and route tools, STA, spice, logic design, and device physics
- - Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications for high performance and high frequency designs
- - CMOS circuit design and analysis skills
- - Experience with industry standard power analysis tools like PrimePower and PowerArtist
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