Senior FPGA Design Firmware Engineer

Create FPGA solutions for optical analytical instruments with optical CCD/CMOS sensors.

The Sr. FPGA design engineer will work with systems teams to define/develop/implement/test/release FPGA based solutions to enable optical analytical technology. This will focus on creating digital designs for networking functions using the latest generations of FPGA technologies and modern FPGA design processes and tools.

Perform schematic design and validate PCB layout for FPGA point of view, drive development with Firmware and Hardware Team and all the way to final product.

The detailed job responsibilities include: Develop, architect, implement, and verify FPGA code to support clean interface for firmware control of active high and low speed peripherals using Xilinx Vivado tools, Xilinx FPGAs such as Virtex and Kintex 7 series for RTL coding, RTL verification, Timing analysis on RTL coding, high speed interfaces such as PCIe and SERDES, and the following technologies, including SPI, GPIO, ADC, DAC, DMA, DDR memory, IIR, FIR filters, AXI interface etc.

Gather requirements for system solutions and drive the proper FPGA system architecture based of the requirements; Design and document product and circuit robustness using computer simulations, conventional analysis and standard testing methodologies; develop and analyze test.

Perform debugging using lab equipment such as Spectrum analyzer, Chip-Scope, Oscilloscope and JTAG.

• Highly proficient in HDL (Verilog preferred) and embedded C Programming

• Solid understanding of Xilinx FPGA Development tools (Vivado/SDK)

• Detailed understanding of architectural elements within a Xilinx FPGA

• Xilinx's Vivado and ISE tools to generate FPGA image, SDK tool to develop software applicaiaton for FPGAs and Matlab for IIR and FIR filter designing.

• FPGA design flow for synthesis, implementation, placement and rout, optimization and Bitstream generation along with timing analysis.

• Implementing RTL code for ADC, DAC, DMA, AXI interface and DDR memory, verify RTL code functionality, RTL debugging using Xilinx's JTAG Chipscope.

• Familiarity with Digital Signal Processing concepts and applications

• Experience designing embedded processor sub-systems

• Interface standards such as USB, SPI, I2C, Ethernet

• Independently implement complex digital signal processing and control logic in RTL

• Familiar with high end FPGAs and signal processing implementation for Filtering, Spectral Analysis and Detection. (FFT, FIR, IIR, CIC, CFAR and similar blocks)

• Control logic implementation for onboard devices.

• Perform hands-on debug of the implementation and characterization of hardware

• Derive the requirements and constraints for the implementation. Actively drive in developing solution with high cross functional team.

• Decompose and allocate system and box-level requirements to FPGA specifications.

• Architect Med/High Complexity solutions targeting FPGAs against requirements and implement those solutions in FPGA platforms.

• Map FPGA simulation work products to system-level requirements and capabilities

• Refine and enforce consistent firmware development processes across FPGA designs.

• Ensure the FPGA simulations verify performance, then integrate and test the FPGA on the circuit card assembly.