FPGA Architect

12-15 Years

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Job Description

Job Requirements

Role - FPGA Architect

Technical Skills

Good Understanding in deriving digital ASIC/FPGA requirements specification from higher-level (system or board-level) requirements specifications.
Proficient in crafting architecture to meet the FPGA requirements.
Expert in RTL Design using VHDL or Verilog
Should be able to create / review FPGA architecture document, Detailed design documents, Timing Diagrams, State Machine Diagrams etc
Good understanding of FPGA Internals Internal Memory, IO Blocks, High speed transceivers etc
Experience in writing performance critical RTL logic
Should be able to select third party or vendor IP cores based on FPGA requirements and integrate them into the system
Experience working with Xilinx and Altera devices
Experience using soft processor cores in FPGA such as microblaze
Very good understanding on RTL synthesis, Implementation, Static Timing Analysis and correcting timing violations.
Expertise in analysing Static Timing Analysis reports
Experience in timing closure of high speed designs
Should be able to support hardware validation of FPGA design
Should have excellent debugging skills, Should be able to identify root cause of bugs and fix them
Experience directing a team of engineers for technical excellence
Experience in developing video processing systems in FPGA
Experience to standard interfaces like AXI-4, AXI-S, Ethernet, PCIe etc

Job Responsibilities

Understand customer requirements and develop FPGA architecture design
Identify independent modules and guide engineers to implement the FPGA design
Ownership of all the FPGA development activities in the project
Build good rapport with customer
Mentor junior design engineers in the team
Provide guidance for timing closure
Support team in identifying root cause and fixing issues reported during hardware validation

Would Be a Plus

Communication

Good and strong verbal and written communication to involved stakeholders
Should be able to conduct fruitful discussion with hardware, firmware and verification team on high levels, architecture, technical issues faced etc.

Preferred Qualification