Senior Verification Engineer

Conexant’s innovative semiconductor solutions are driving broadband communications and digital home networks worldwide. The company has leveraged its expertise and leadership position in modem technologies to enable more Internet connections than all of its competitors combined, and continues to develop highly integrated silicon solutions for broadband data and media processing networks. The company’s semiconductor solutions are found in devices that connect personal access products such as PCs, set-top boxes, and game consoles to voice, video and data processing services over broadband and dial-up connections. They are also used by service providers to deliver broadband data, voice and video content to homes and business around the world. Conexant is a fabless semiconductor company that recorded more than $900 million in revenues in fiscal year 2004. The company has approximately 2,400 employees worldwide, and is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. The company also has major operations in San Diego, Calif., Palm Bay, Fla., Red Bank, N.J., and in India. To learn more, please visit us at www.conexant.com

Position Description:

• Develop functional test/verification plans.• Design and implement verification test bench infrastructure and test cases for system, chip and block level verification, using the latest tools and SystemVerilog/OVM.• Functionality includes cores such as ARM CPU's, Ethernet, DMA, PCIe, SATA, USB, SRIO, video/audio codecs, modems, security, and a wide array of peripherals.• Writing reference models, BFMs, transactors, monitors, interfaces, scoreboards, and tests (both directed and constraint random), in SystemVerilog• Create test to drive code-coverage to 100%, and analysis coverage log and adjust constraints to improve coverage• Develop assertion based verification• Develop SystemVerilog interface to C/C++/SystemC model of the design using the DPI (direct programming interface)• Develop hardware/software co-simulation/verification• some RTL-code analysis to help designer debug and test-fail-reports• Assist with the generation and bring-up of test vectors.• Work with system and hardware engineers to port tests to other environments (such as FPGA prototyping systems), silicon bring up, and validation, etc.

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Qualifications:

• B.S/M.S/Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering• Minimum 3+ years experience in ASIC RTL verification, worked on at least 3 designs which have gone to production• Strong Verilog, SystemVerilog, PERL, TCL, C/C++, and assembly programming skills• Strong PLI/VPI/DPI skills• Strong system and block level reference modeling skills• Experience with analog/mixed signal simulation AMS• Experience with ncsim/ncverilog simulation tools, Debussy/Verdi waveform analysis tools• Excellent oral/written communication, presentation, and documentation skills• Highly motivated, results driven, well organized, methodical, and detail orient; must be able to look for anomalies,not just say pass or fail• Experience using MATLAB to analyze signal processing algorithms is definitely a plus• Experience with Audio testing desired• Experience working with internal/external teams is highly desirable• Able to work both independently and as a team member