CPU RTL Architect (Execution, Load/Store)

Waltham,Massachusetts,United States

Hardware

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**Description**

As a CPU RTL Architect, you will own or participate in the following: - Micro-architecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro-architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification - RTL ownership - development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals - Verification - support the verification team in test bench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for functional verification - Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance - Design delivery - work with multifunctional engineering team to implement and verify physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power

**Minimum Qualifications**

**Key Qualifications**

Minimum BS and 10 years of relevant industry experience

Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, cache and memory subsystems

Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.

Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications

Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques

Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture

Experience in C or C programming

Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

**Preferred Qualifications**

**Education & Experience**

Minimum BS and 10 years of relevant industry experience

**Additional Requirements**

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