IBM CPU/Processor Verification – Cache Coherency 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

894665991

Your Role and Responsibilities:
As a CPU Verification Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the pre-silicon functional and performance verification of our cutting-edge chipsets. Your responsibilities will cover a spectrum of critical areas, including the cache/nest subsystem, interrupt, memory hierarchy, and various on-silicon IP integral to our upcoming IBM Power Systems offerings. Leveraging state-of-the-art techniques, you will be at the forefront of simulating and validating the designs of these bespoke microprocessor-based systems.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Functional Verification Experience: Extensive experience in functional verification of processors, demonstrating a deep understanding of verification methodologies.
• Computer Architecture Knowledge: Good understanding of computer architecture, including Processor core design specifications, Coherency and Cache Designs, Processor IO subsystem, Interrupt architecture, with expertise in at least any one of the above domains.
• Multi-Processor Cache Coherency: Experience in verifying multi-processor coherency, cache designs and protocols and memory subsystems, ensuring seamless operation in complex systems.
• Strong programming skills: Proficiency in C++, Python scripting or similar languages.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with Hardware Description Languages (HDLs): Proficiency in hardware description languages like Verilog and VHDL and general computational logic design and verification concepts.
• Experience in System-Level Verification: Exposure to system-level verification methodologies and techniques, ensuring holistic verification coverage across multiple levels of design.
• Minimum one full life cycle experience of a processor/SoC verification flow with focus Cache Coherency Verification.
• Knowledge of system-level architecture including buses like AXI/ACE/CHI, AMBA interconnects