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As a CPU Emulation Engineer within the CPU Engineering group, you will join the CPU verification team to deliver emulation-based solutions for high performance CPUs. You will architect and develop test bench infrastructure using C/C++ and Systemverilog to enable CPU emulation across various platforms. Your daily responsibilities include developing verification methodologies, debugging emulation performance and area issues, and creating environments to run OS boots, performance benchmarks, and other vectors. You will utilize tools such as Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, and FPGAs while employing Perl, Python, or shell scripts for automation. The role requires solving complex hardware problems by debugging RISC-V CPU designs, optimizing synthesizable Verilog components, and managing C/C++ DPI transactors to ensure scalable and portable verification environments for CPU architecture and micro-architecture.
Architect and develop test bench infrastructure in C/C++ and Systemverilog for CPU emulation.
Develop verification methodologies to ensure scalable and portable environments across simulation and emulation.
Debug emulation performance and area issues to optimize the use of emulation resources.
Develop environments to run verification test cases, OS boots, and performance benchmarks.
Create debugging methodologies to identify and resolve CPU functional and performance issues.
Maintain emulation environments to collect and analyze performance metrics.
Execute verification plans including design bring-up, DV environment setup, and regression enabling.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of relevant engineering experience, Master's degree and 3+ years, or PhD and 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
Architect and develop test bench infrastructure in C/C++ and Systemverilog for CPU emulation.
Develop verification methodologies and environments for OS boot, performance benchmarks, and test cases.
Debug emulation performance, area issues, and CPU functional/performance issues.
Execute verification plans including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, and regression enabling.
5+ years of experience with emulation platforms such as Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, or FPGAs (preferred).
Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs in synthesizable Verilog (preferred).
Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors, scripting (Perl, Python, shell), and RISC-V CPU designs (preferred).