ASIC Test Chip Physical Design Architect
- Leuven, Vlaams Brabant
- Vast
- Voltijds
- Test chip demonstrator definition, specifications, and planning.
- Physical design integration (including floorplanning) and signoff coordination at sub-system and full chip level.
- RTL design, IP selection and integration.
- Definition of the strategy for verification, measurement and characterization, including test access structures (DFT, BIST, ...) and agreements with test team.
- A full-time position in imec Leuven, Belgium or imec Cambridge, UK.
- An exciting position in a rapidly growing, multi-disciplinary team.
- The chance to interact closely with circuit designers, device experts and process integration engineers.
- High impact and visibility through publications and interactions with imec's major foundry, fabless and EDA partners.
- The ideal candidate will have Master degree in Electronics with at least 5 years relevant industrial or academic experience in circuit design.
- You have a digital circuit design and top-level physical implementation background.
- You have experience in test chip or demonstrator definition and tape-out leadership.
- You have an understanding of the basic functioning and characteristics of emerging memories.
- You have a good understanding of on-chip partitioning, clocking, and design-for-test structures.
- You are proficiency with either Cadence/Synopsis EDA tools and flows.
- You are acquainted with measurement equipment interfaces. You can understand their limitations and take those into account in your design for test strategy.
- Experience with either PCB, demo board design or FPGA programming is a plus.
- Experience with automatic, semi-automatic probe-stations or manual probe measurement and notions on probe pad layouts and probecard design is a plus.
- You have worked in multi-disciplinary teams, ideally both interacting with hardware designers as well as EDA vendors and foundry partners.
- You have a critical mindset, eager to explore new challenges in the future and evolve together with the changing R&D demands.
- You are an open and constructive team player. Team lead experience is a plus.
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