High Speed IO Analog Mixed Signal Design Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• High Speed IO/SerDes AMS circuit architecture and design
• Work and collaborate with System/Platform & SOC architects to translate system level specs to AMS blocks/circuit level specifications.
• Author AMS blocks circuit and architecture technical specifications, AMS pre-silicon verification, AMS post-silicon characterization/validation test plans.

Preferred Experience

• Hand-on design experience in multi-Gbps serial (PCIE, USB, …), parallel high BW memory interface PHY/IOs (DDR4/DDR5, HBM2/HBM3, gDDR5/gDDR6, …) and chip-to-chip links PHY IPs
• In-depth knowledge of mixed signal circuit architecture and design techniques for receiver/transmitter and PLL/DLL/clocking
• Solid experience of designing and architecting analog mixed-signal circuit blocks including DLLs, phase interpolator, low jitter clock distribution, bandgap, biasing circuits, LDO regulators, amplifiers, comparators.
• Experience in mixed signal design circuit blocks such as digital/analog DLLs, duty cycle corrector, clock and data recovery, clock mixer, …
• Solid understanding of high-speed IO signaling topologies and architectures including system-silicon co-design/co-optimizations for best in class PPA.
• Solid understanding of high speed IO link budget analysis and jitter/SNR metrics and design trades.
• Experience in low power design techniques for high speed/custom digital circuit (e.g. CMOS/CML high speed design for counters, dividers, …) design and analysis including transistor level timing sign-off
• Solid understanding of power, area and performance trade-offs in mixed signal IP design
• Design Experience in FinFet advanced CMOS process nodes 16nm/7nm/3nm and below coupled with a solid understanding of transistor device performance and fundamentals
• Proficient in AMS design flows, tools, and methodologies. Familiar with Cadence schematic capture, virtuoso, Spectre and/or HSPICE circuit simulation tools
• Work with project-manager, system architects, IC designers and physical designers to guarantee quality/timely deliverables meeting project’s schedule and technical requirements
• Analytical thinking, inventive, and Quality-oriented mindset. Strong and effective technical and management communication at the peer and upward management levels

Track Record

• Track record of successfully taking AMS designs to production