26802 - A&MS Layout Design Engineer

At Synopsys, we’re at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we’re powering it all with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.

 

Our Silicon IP business is all about integrating more capabilities into an SoC—faster. We offer the world’s broadest portfolio of silicon IP—predesigned blocks of logic, memory, interfaces, analog, security, and embedded processors. All to help customers integrate more capabilities. Meet unique performance, power, and size requirements of their target applications. And get differentiated products to market quickly with reduced risk.

 

A&MS Layout Design Engineer

 

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You will be part of a layout team developing physical layout of high-speed analog integrated circuits.  As mixed-signal layout engineer you will be exposed to SerDes PHY layout for PCIe, SATA, XAUI, and other protocols.  As a designer of IP layout, circuits will be constructed to facilitate porting to multiple process nodes. Our environment is best in class with a full suite of IC design tools supplemented by custom, in-house tools supported by an experienced software/CAD team.

 

Key Qualifications

• In depth familiarity with layout of analog and mixed signal CMOS circuits,
• Exposure to SERDES sub circuit layout (i.e. RX, TX, PLL, etc.),
• Design for porting (i.e. design to enable ease moving layout across multiple foundry nodes),
• Knowledge of signal integrity issues (i.e. clock/data routes, differential routing, shielding),
• Aware of layout techniques to mitigate ESD, latchup,
• Familiarity with custom digital layout (i.e. high speed logic paths),
• Knowledge of design for reliability (i.e. EM, IR, etc.),
• Knowledge of layout effects (i.e. matching, reliability, proximity effects, etc.),
• Layout tool: Custom Designer (similar to Cadence),
• Verification tools: Hercules, ICV, Star-RCXT,
• Exposure to scripting (i.e. TCL, PERL, etc.).

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