Firmware Engineer II

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in Austin is seeking an engineer to join the DDR PHY IP Front End Design team. You will develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers and work with hardware and memory subsystem architects on training algorithms.

The role focuses on bare-metal C firmware development, RTL-based simulations, and silicon bring-up board testing. Collaboration with verification teams is essential to ensure firmware-hardware co-verification.

Qualifications

• DDR5 JEDEC specs knowledge and DIMM configurations.
• Experience in bare-metal firmware for high-speed SerDes or memory interface PHY blocks.
• Proficiency in C for embedded software and IDE usage.
• Experience debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and MCU subsystems.
• Proficiency in Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting.
• Experience with Verification EDA tools like simulators and waveform viewers.

Responsibilities

• Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers.
• Develop firmware in C with bare-metal programming and low-level APIs.
• Collaborate with hardware designers and memory architects on training algorithms.
• Collaborate with verification team on firmware-hardware co-verification.
• Develop and debug firmware in RTL-based hardware simulations.
• Develop and debug on silicon bring-up boards.

Skills

DDR5 JEDEC specs

Bare-metal firmware development

C programming for embedded software

Scripting: Shell/Perl/Python/TCL

RTL/firmware co-verification

Tools

IDE

Verification EDA tools

RTL simulation debugging

Job description

AUSTIN

Full time

R55225

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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.
• 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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