Senior Physical Design Engineer

Physical Design Engineer

• knowledge of PD Flow from netlist to GDS (Floorplanning, Synthesis, Power Planning, Placement & Optimization, CTS, Routing, ECO steps, Timing/SI)
• Good idea about OCV/MMMC and multi power designs (Level shifters, Isolation cells etc)
• Should have worked extensively on XTalk/SI/EM
• Knowledge about CTS, Clock tree methodology and clock skewing.
• Tool specific knowledge: ICC, innovus, primetime, DC, Genus depending on the background
• Knowledge of DRC/LVS, IR Drop, Formal Verification and Synthesis.
• Job would require complete ownership from netlist to GDS for blocks.
• Should have worked on 28nm and lower technologies.

Tools:

ICC or Innovus for PnR , Encounter for FloorPlan , Redhawk for IR Drop, PT/PTSI , Calibre

Activities:

Physical design of Hard Macros/Partitions.  gate-level- Netlist to GDS, technologies varying from 28nm to 7nm.

PD activities involve:

Hard Macro floorplan/IR Drop/placement/CTS/Routing/Timing Optimization/Timing Closure/DRC/LVS