Firmware Engineer II

Cadence, Inc.
Austin, TX, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

C (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Software Debugging Electronic Design Automation Perl (Programming Language) Embedded Software Firmware Python (Programming Language) Tcl (Programming Language) Scripting PIC Microcontroller Bare Metal
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Front End Software Development

Job description

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.

Requirements

  • 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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