Your Role and Responsibilities- Lead the architecture, design and development of Instruction Sequencing Unit for high-performance Processor CPU of IBM Systems.
- Architect and design Instruction Dispatch to Issue queues, Register Renaming for Out of Order Execution, Issue instructions to Execution Pipelines, Reordering Buffers for completion of a high performance processor CPU
- Develop the features, present the proposed architecture in the High level design discussions
- Estimate the overall effort to develop the feature.
- Estimate silicon area and wire usage for the feature.
- Develop micro-architecture, Design RTL, Collaborate with other Core units, Verification, DFT, Physical design, Timing, FW, SW teams to develop the feature
- Signoff the Pre-silicon Design that meets all the functional, area and timing goals
- Participate in post silicon lab bring-up and validation of the hardware
- Lead a team of engineers, guide and mentor team members, represent as Logic Design Lead in global forums
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 8 or more years of demonstrated experience in architecting and designing Instruction Dispatch unit of CPU
- Hands of experience of implementing Issue Queues, Register renaming and forwarding, Reordering Buffer and Pipeline flush/exception handling
- Deep expertise in Out of Order, Super Scalar, Multi-Threaded Core Architecture and ISA
- Experience with high frequency, instruction pipeline designs
- At least 1 generation of Processor Core silicon bring up experience
- In depth understanding of industry microprocessor designs (e.g., x86, ARM, or RISC-V processor designs)
- Proficiency of RTL design with Verilog or VHDL
- Nice to haves
- Knowledge of Instruction Decode and Execution units
- Knowledge of verification principles and coverage
- High-level knowledge of Linux operating system
- Knowledge of one object oriented language and scripting language
- Understanding of Agile development processes
- Experience with DevOps design methodologies and tools
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise