Cadence

Principal Firmware Engineer

Cadence  •  United States (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

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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About Cadence

Cadence is a market leader in AI and digital twins, pioneering the application of computational software to accelerate innovation in the engineering design of silicon to systems. Our design solutions, based on Cadence’s Intelligent System Design™ strategy, are essential for the world’s leading semiconductor and systems companies to build their next-generation products from chips to full electromechanical systems that serve a wide range of markets, including hyperscale computing, mobile communications, automotive, aerospace, industrial, life sciences and robotics. In 2024, Cadence was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the world’s top 100 best-managed companies. Cadence solutions offer limitless opportunities—learn more at www.cadence.com.

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