About this role
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Job Overview:
This role will contribute directly to the development and enhancement of AMBA Performance verification and/or Unipro stack products , focusing on protocol functionality, performance, and robustness. Depending on the specific protocol area, the work may involve:
- Implementing AMBA protocol features and state machines
- Enhancing performance and scalability on emulation platforms
- Developing debug, trace, and analysis capabilities
- Working with customers and field teams to resolve issues and deliver solutions related to AMBA (CHI*, ACE, AXI)
Job Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing protocol functionality in AMBA AVIP
- Developing and debugging BFMs, transactors, and associated software interfaces
- Ensuring correctness, performance, and scalability in emulation and acceleration flows
- Collaborating with cross‑functional teams
- Participating in feature bring‑up, regression, and release activities
- Supporting customer issues, reproducing problems, and delivering fixes
- GUI based performance analysis tool development
Job Qualifications:
- Strong fundamentals in digital design, computer architecture, and system‑level verification
- Experience with hardware description languages (SystemVerilog/Verilog) and/or C/C++
- Understanding of standard interconnect and bus architectures (e.g., AMBA, UFS/Unipro/MPhy)
- Familiarity with emulation, acceleration, or hybrid verification flows is a strong plus
- Good debugging skills using waveforms, logs, and protocol analyzers
- Ability to work across hardware and software boundaries