Cisco · 2 days ago
Analog/mixed-signal IC Design Engineer - Technical Lead - Acacia
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Responsibilities
As a member of the Mixed Signal Design team, you will be a key member of a small, dynamic IC Design group that develops high speed (>25Gb/s), and high accuracy, analog designs for optical communications products.
You will architect, design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products.
You will lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip, mentor team members and track deliverables, participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production.
You will also collaborate with packaging and hardware design team to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.
Qualification
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Required
BSEE degree with 12+ years of experience or equivalent or an MS degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent or a PhD with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent
Design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs in at least 3 areas below: High Speed Serial Links utilizing serializers, deserializers, and data convertors, Voltage Regulators, High Performance Output Drivers, High Performance Phase Locked Loops, Efficient clock Transmission/propagation, Opamps and Programmable Gain Amplifiers, Equalization techniques
Preferred
Direct experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications
Experience with FinFET technology
High-frequency layout experience a plus: Passive component design: inductors, transformers, transmission-lines, etc.
Floorplanning (power/ground, digital/analog signal routing, etc.)
Custom transistor layout
Characterization over PVT (monte-carlo analysis)
Electromigration analysis (using Totem, or equivalent)
Power and IR drop analysis
Solid ESD laboratory practices and methodology
Construction of test setup to test specific circuitry
Experience in the use of high frequency test equipment (BERT, jitter analyzers, VNA/PNA, etc.)
Cadence (virtuoso)
Spectre/APS/SpectreX
Layout validation tools (Virtuoso or Calibre)
Post-layout Extraction (Virtuoso or Calibre)
EMX
Mixed signal simulations in AMS
Matlab
Possess a track record of innovation. Publications are a plus.
Benefits
10 days off each year to give back
Company
Cisco
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