Job Overview:
You know us. With 125 Arm-powered products shipped every second, we'll be in a over a trillion smart devices by 2035. Your smartphone, award-winning VR gaming, the world's fastest supercomputer – our engineers are designing the advanced core processors leading the race towards a connected, autonomous, hyper-performance future. So, we promise you endless opportunities to experiment and go even further in hardware!
Here in Physical IP Memory Group, we at ARM, Enable outstanding IC implementation and physically optimized ARM CPU/GPU solutions on advanced process nodes (3nm to 22nm). We craft/develop Memory compilers with high quality fast cache memory instances to meet a wide range of performance power and density applications. Typical platform contents include single, two and dual port static random-access memory (SRAM) compilers, which Arm calls SRAM or Register File (RF) compilers and custom memory solutions. Arm offers compilers with various architectures and optimization points, including High Density, High Speed and Ultra High Density.
Now, you have an opportunity to work on the next generation of processors that will appear in the most desirable products over the next 3 years. The Local layout team is a good combination of very experienced engineers and some of the most enthusiastic and hardworking graduates, coming from the best engineering schools. Collectively, the team is highly creative, collaborative, delivery orientated and committed.
Responsibilities:
- Implementation of quality full-custom layouts of high-performance arrays and memory blocks from supplied schematics: from planning stages through final layout verification and review, in accordance with strict guidelines for performance and manufacturability.
- Resource for interpretation and implementation of all physical design rules in the most advanced manufacturing processes used by ARM.
- Custom layout and verification of complex memory cells.
- Expert physical design verification (DRC/LVS/DFM) resource for all types of circuit and test layouts using Calibre verification tools.
Required Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate is expected to have 2+ years relevant layout design experience with a Bachelors/Masters or equivalent education.
- Ability to understand, plan and organize work using complex schematics of hierarchically structured circuits.
- Understanding of layout techniques for optimization of power, speed, and area for data path, bitcell arrays, word line drivers, control blocks, and other complex memory circuits.
- Ability to quickly interpret and repair complicated LVS and DRC problems using state of the art verification software.
- Must have experience with Cadence Virtuoso layout systems.
“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:
- Understanding of layout techniques for design-for-manufacture in advanced (7nm/5nm/3nm/2nm) processes.
- Ability to identify possible design tradeoffs with circuit design leads, based upon assumptions, inherent knowledge, and design analysis.
- Programming experience: Tcl, Perl, shell, Skill, Scheme.
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Hybrid Working at Arm
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Equal Opportunities at Arm
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