A fantastic opportunity for and experienced Verification Engineer to join a British semiconductor company at their site in either Cambridge or Manchester, UK.
Responsibilities:
For this role, we are looking for experienced Verification Engineers who can contribute to all phases of the verification flow. This includes:
* Ownership of a specific area of a CPU project ranging from unit-level testbench development through to the overall verification methodology for a CPU project.
* Responsibility for producing test plans and verification strategies.
* Planning, tracking, and coordinating the tasks of you or your team to meet high quality goals at the planned time
* Ensuring the quality of the verification work done is of the expected standard
* Being part of verification improvement strategies across the CPU group and the wider verification community
* Evaluating and determining causality of different issues throughout the verification process per project.
Required Skills and Experience:
* Experience in designing and implementing verification environments for complex RTL designs
* Well-versed in the use of hardware verification languages e.g. SystemVerilog or Specman ‘e’
* Understanding of end-to-end verification processes, from test plan creation through to verification closure
* Ability to quickly understand and apply complex specification detail
* Understanding of the fundamentals of computer architecture, with an emphasis on pipelining, exception handling, memory systems
'Nice to have' Skills and Experience:
* Verification methodologies such as UVM
* Practical experience of working on microprocessor designs
* In-depth understanding of memory protection, memory translation, vector processing in CPUs, exception and interrupt handling.
* Understanding of constrained random stimulus, the goals and general usefulness of different types of coverage in hardware, as well as checking methodologies and behavioral functional models.
* Knowledge of assembly language, and/or C/C++
Visa support can be offered if required.
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