Principal FPGA Emulation Engineer

About the Role

Renesas is seeking a Principal FPGA Emulation & Prototyping Engineer to build and own the FPGA-based platforms that emulate our mixed-signal power ASICs before silicon. Working shoulder to shoulder with our silicon RTL and DSP architects you will bring their designs up on FPGA to validate real-time digital mixed-signal and power-control architectures pre-silicon proving out control loops catching RTL issues early and de-risking tape-out.

These FPGA platforms are emulation vehicles not production hardware. Success is measured by how faithfully and how fast they reproduce the target silicon: functional equivalence to the golden ASIC RTL real-time (or near-real-time) performance for closed-loop power and DSP validation and deep visibility for pre-silicon debug.

What Youll Do

• Partner closely with silicon RTL and DSP architects to bring ASIC designs up on FPGA advising on FPGA-ability and turning architectural intent into a working real-time emulation platform.
• Adapt ASIC RTL for FPGA emulation while preserving functional equivalence to the golden design handling clock-gating conversion memory/SRAM macro mapping reset and initialization schemes tri-state/bus conversion and stubbing or modeling of analog/mixed-signal blocks.
• Map designs onto the FPGA fabric to fit and to hit emulation speed steering resource inference (DSP/multiplier slices block vs. distributed memory) clocking and pipelining so the design achieves the real-time performance the validation requires.
• Build the real-time environment around the digital core: model or interface to the analog and power stages (ADC/DAC/PWM gate drivers plant/converter models) including hardware-in-the-loop with real or emulated power hardware where needed.
• Develop deep pre-silicon debug and visibility logic analysis long-run waveform capture triggering and assertions and enable firmware/software co-development ahead of silicon.
• Define and continuously improve the emulation methodology RTL/FPGA-ability guidelines flows and automation (TCL/Python).
• Provide technical leadership: mentor engineers lead reviews and drive emulation and tooling decisions across the silicon and systems teams.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

• Extensive FPGA design and implementation experience (typically 10 years) including a track record of FPGA prototyping or emulation of ASIC/SoC designs.
• Expert-level RTL design in SystemVerilog and/or VHDL with deep familiarity working from ASIC-style RTL.
• Deep understanding of FPGA internal architecture and primitives DSP/multiplier slices block and distributed RAM carry chains and clocking and a proven ability to map designs onto these resources to fit large ASIC RTL and reach real-time emulation performance (memory/SRAM macro mapping DSP inference clock-enable conversion control-set and fanout management).
• Hands-on experience adapting ASIC RTL for FPGA: clock-gating conversion memory macro replacement reset schemes tri-state conversion and multi-clock/CDC handling.
• Strong command of the full FPGA implementation flow synthesis place-and-route timing analysis and constraint development (XDC/SDC) on large Xilinx and/or Intel (Altera) devices using Vivado and/or Quartus.
• Hardware bring-up and debug experience: in-system logic analysis (ILA/SignalTap) lab instrumentation and long-run pre-silicon debug.
• Proficiency scripting for automation (TCL Python).
• Demonstrated technical leadership mentoring reviews and driving cross-team technical decisions.
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred Qualifications

• Real-time hardware-in-the-loop emulation and modeling of analog/mixed-signal and power stages (ADC/DAC/PWM interfaces plant/converter models).
• Understanding of digital power-conversion control and mixed-signal systems converter topologies control loops PWM/PFM and magnetics to build faithful models and validate power-control architectures.
• FPGA DSP implementation and real-time emulation of DSP datapaths: FIR/IIR/CIC filters interpolation/decimation FFT FEC including high-throughput techniques such as folding/unfolding.
• Experience with commercial FPGA prototyping platforms such as Synopsys HAPS Cadence Protium or Siemens Veloce.
• Model-based design with Simulink and/or Xilinx System Generator.
• High-speed interface experience: JESD204B PCIe 1G/10G Ethernet Aurora.
• ASIC design or tape-out exposure including DFT/scan considerations in emulation.
• Ability to architect and build a custom in-house FPGA prototyping platform board architecture high-speed PCB design signal integrity and bring-up a plus as we may develop our own hardware in the future.
• Embedded/microcontroller and firmware co-development experience (C/assembly); MATLAB C/C.

Additional Information :

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries we offer the opportunity to work on worldleading technology for Automotive Industrial Infrastructure and IoT shaping a safer healthier greener and smarter future.

At Renesas TAGIE is our culture grounded in being Transparent Agile Global Innovative and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time