Overview
Role Overview:The Senior / Principal FPGA engineer would be responsible for design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.
Responsibilities
- Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs
- Documenting and recording deliverables
- Verifying FPGA designs
- Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control
- Providing progress reports
Work Experience
Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:
Mandatory
- At least 7 years’ experience of developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog
- Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision
- Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
- Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
- Independent verification using VHDL
- Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
- A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software
- Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities.
- Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead FPGA engineer & other disciplines
- Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills
- Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements
- De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware
- and system level
- Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations
- Linux and scripting experience
- Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation
Desirable
- Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical FPGA, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B
- Independent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM
- Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry
- Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs
- Familiarity with latest FPGA device families
- Practical experience with agile methodology
Location
Qualifications
- Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject
- UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance
- Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage
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