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Job Description:

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller, analog, FPGA, connectivity, and power management semiconductors. The company's solutions serve more than 130,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets. The corporate CAD and ES (Engineering Services) group offers industry leading digital and mixed-signal design implementation of full RTL2GDS spectrum on advanced technology nodes with cutting edge EDA tooling platform.

Job Description

• To lead technically in ASIC physical design domain, which may include stages from design specification understanding till layout and timing signoff for tapeout
• To develop and signoff I.C. design projects physical design and flow improvement. Responsibilities include (as applicable)
  • Effective and efficient auto Place-and-Route implementation, covering floorplanning, PG mesh, placement, CTS, routing and chip-finishing
  • Identify and derive special handling from design spec, such as NDR, source-sync and latency/skew control DRC/LVS and RV debug and convergence, including analysis for waiver request
  • Low power design; vector-driven layout optimization and leakage/dynamic power control techniques
  • Provide technical guidance and review for team members in solving complex challenges, with high problem solving skill and critical thinking capability
  • Creating technical intellectual property such as patents and trade secrets
  • Drive for Best-in-Class design implementation approach/process or new design methodologies benchmarking
• To document I.C. Design layout and work procedures
  • Capturing physical design layout approach, consideration, challenges and solutions employed using corporate template documentation
  • Complete audit and checklist fill-in, review and closure in compliance to corporate Design Control Procedures (DCP)
  • Filing issues, solution details and review confirmation in project ticketing system (PEPS) or CAD ticketing system (JIRA)
• To interface with
  • Project manager, product-development, IG and ATPG team on project related issues
  • CAD/TA on flow methodology

Requirements/Qualifications:

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, with 12+ years of ASIC I.C. Design working experience
• Cadence Innovus or Synopsys ICC/ICC2 expertise
• Cadence Voltus or Apache Redhawk expertise

Added advantage

• Exposure to 7nm and below advanced process nodes
• Familiar with PDK and advanced layout design rules and requirement
• Strong scripting skills in Perl, TCL, Shell or Python

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

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