Apple

FE Engineering

Apple • $110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 1 year of experience in digital circuit design or related occupation
  • Experience in physical synthesis for optimizing power, performance, and area (PPA)
  • Proficient in analyzing and debugging digital logic using HDLs like Verilog or System Verilog
  • Skilled in formal logic equivalence verification between RTL and gate-level netlists
  • Experience in static timing analysis (STA) for identifying timing violations
  • Proficient in scripting languages like Python, Perl, or Tcl for automation tasks

Responsibilities

  • Conduct logic synthesis for Apple GFX Partitions
  • Run experiments to optimize design quality metrics
  • Collaborate with RTL and physical design teams
  • Analyze and optimize delivered IP for synthesis
  • Implement RTL design with technology-specific netlist
  • Run synthesis trials and analyze reports for design improvement
  • Perform signoff checks to ensure design quality

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement
  • Access to advanced industry tools and technologies
  • Involvement in innovative projects within the graphics domain
  • Potential for automation and process improvement initiatives
Full Job Description
Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Responsible for Logic Synthesis for Apple GFX Partitions. Responsible for LEQ/ATPG/DFT/Lint clean designs. Run various experiments to help in achieving the best design QoR metrics (Power, Performance, Area). Work closely with the RTL and PD (physical design) teams. Responsible for synthesis, analysis, and optimization of the delivered IP. Use and develop advanced techniques spanning RTL/Synthesis/Place and Route to meet challenging timing, power and area targets while also working with our partners in STA and DFT to achieve successful first silicon. Implement logically coded (RTL) design with technology specific silicon netlist with product area, power and performance goals with required design validation checks performed. Run various synthesis trials in industry tools and analyze the reports to improve power, performance and area of the design owned as part of Apple Graphics team. Collaborate with IP team and Physical design team to address design issues and generate ideas to enhance the design. Ensure the synthesized netlist is power clean, logically equivalent and Lint clean and has the best quality of result. Ensure that the DFT (Design for Test) chains are successfully inserted in all the designs with good test coverage. Debug issues and suggesting solutions collaborating with vendors and CAD (Computer Aided Design) support teams. Explore possibilities to automate the existing flows and explore the possibilities of creating utilities which can assist in improving design quality. Perform ECO's to address changes on the netlist post release. Perform signoff checks at the end of design cycle to ensure that the design meets acceptable criteria and quality. 40 hours/week.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering or related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Experience and/or education must include:

Utilizing experience in performing physical synthesis to optimize digital circuit designs for power, performance, and area (PPA) trade-offs.

Utilizing experience in analyzing and debugging digital logic described in Hardware Description Languages (HDLs), such as Verilog or System Verilog, at the Register Transfer Level (RTL).

Utilizing experience in performing formal logic equivalence verification between Register Transfer Level (RTL) and gate-level netlists.

Utilizing experience in performing static timing analysis (STA) to identify and debug timing violations on critical paths within a digital circuit design.

Utilizing experience in developing scripts using languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl to automate design flows, data extraction, and reporting tasks.

Implementing and verifying functional and timing Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) at the gate-level netlist.

Analyzing designs that incorporate multiple power domains defined by a Unified Power Format (UPF) specification.

Preferred Qualifications

N/A

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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