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Location: Bengaluru
Company: Ampere
In this role, you will be at the forefront of AI innovation, building AmpereOne Aurora, our groundbreaking AI compute solution. Aurora combines high-performance general-purpose CPUs with integrated AI capabilities, offering a compelling combination of efficiency and market reach. This revolutionary product is poised to deliver superior performance while consuming significantly less power.
Power analysis engineer is expected have strong CMOS design fundamentals and deep knowledge of power reduction techniques at various levels of abstraction. Expertise in analyzing the results given by various power estimation tools and create actionable items for power reduction. Experience in developing flows and post-processing scripts to help in analysis and rollup.
What you’ll achieve:
- Setup power analysis environment for at the RTL-level, and gate-level for power analysis of all design blocks at the pre-silicon stage.
- Determine tests and benchmarks to run on all blocks for pre-silicon power analysis
- Develop power analysis tools flows using Python or any other scripting language
- Write and modify DV test cases for certain use cases interesting for power analysis and reduction
- Run and review power analysis reports at the RTL-level and gate-level on all design blocks. Identify areas of improvements at the architecture-level, RTL-level, and synthesis.
- Determine power optimization budgets for all blocks, and setup runs to validate them as the design progresses.
- Understand the different CPU use cases, Memory and Pcie workloads.
- Work with industry-standard power analysis tools like Spyglass/Joules/Joules RTL etc.
- Maintain and improve existing power modeling and analysis flows.
About You
- M.Tech in Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering with 1+ years of semiconductor experience or B.Tech in Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering with 3+ years of semiconductor experience
- Experience with power analysis using gate-level and RTL-power analysis tools
- Good understanding of Power analysis tool flows
- Hands-on working experience with Power analysis tools and flows (one or more of the following industry-standard tools: Primepower, PTPX, Power Artist, Joules, Voltus)
- Good understanding of power analysis and optimisation on CMOS designs
- Good understanding of clock-gating, power-gating, DVFS, etc. used for power optimisation
- Good understanding of processor designs and processor work-loads.
- Solid programming and scripting skills using Perl/Python/Tcl
- Experience running power analysis on activity from emulation environment
- Owned CPU or SOC design blocks and familiar with design flows (synthesis, place & route, power, timing, EM/IR)
- Owned power analysis methodology and/or automation in previous role
- Hands-on working experience with Power analysis tools and flows (one or more of the following industry-standard tools: Primepower, PTPX, Power Artist, Joules, Voltus)
- Advanced knowledge of Python, TCL and shell scripting
