Principal Firmware Engineer
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Listed
- 3 days ago
About the role
Be part of the Cadence DDR PHY IP Front End Design team responsible for -
- Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers
- Developing firmware in C typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers.
- Responsible for collaborating with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them.
- Responsible for collaborating with the verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan.
- Develop and Debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C +Verilog simulations)
- Develop and Debug on Silicon bring-up boards.
Required Skills
- Good Knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC spec, knowledge of different DIMM configurations and specifications.
- Relevant experience in developing bare-metal firmware for High-speed SerDes or Memory interface Physical Layer blocks.
- Good Knowledge of C programming language for embedded software development and use of relevant IDE.
- Comfortable debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystem.
- Good knowledge of Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting
- Good experience on Verification EDA Tools like simulators and waveform viewers
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