Business Unit Description AI Chip Engineering Digital IP team defines and develops components for a wide range of products, including automotive microprocessors, application processors, microcontrollers, and networking. The Austin Digital IP team develops components for DDR, Display Controller, high-speed serial links, cores, memory controllers, and interconnect.

Job Summary:

Review IP architecture specifications, features and programming model, microarchitecture and interface specifications. Plan IP documentation and design, including providing schedule assessments. Design IP meeting requirements for quality and performance, using Verilog and System Verilog RTL, and vendor and internal checking tools. Collaborate with verification team to develop test plans and complete verification execution to 100% coverage, and as per NXP standard quality and maturity standards. Deliver completed IP, including RTL design and supporting documentation Track metrics during IP development, include development plan milestones, code and functional coverage, defect tickets, and tracing of requirements versus design specification. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide expert support to subsystem, SoC, validation, and applications engineering teams during product development.

Key challenges:

Proving design meets all requirements and ensuring zero defects escape to silicon. Meeting committed schedules without compromising quality Cross-functional aspects: Definition reviews with architecture teams and designers Planning with verification team, architecture team, and project manager Integration of digital IP, working with local and global SoC front-end design teams Support for local customers on IP, subsystem and SoC verification teams, emulation and silicon validation teams Support for applications engineers and end-customers to replicate and identify root cause field failures, and identify workarounds. Collaborate with local and global verification and tools development teams in developing improved methods of verification

Job Qualifications:

Minimum

BSEE/BSCE/BSCS

Minimum 4 years of experience in IP or SoC design Knowledge of SoC architecture required Expert knowledge of Verilog required Experience with design quality checks, including Lint, clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, static timing analysis (STA) Expert knowledge of

ARM AMBA

bus protocol standards desired Knowledge of functional safety, including

ISO26262

a plus Knowledge of CPU or cache architecture a plus Knowledge of C coding a plus Knowledge of scripting, such as Perl or Python, a plus More information about NXP in the United States... NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals. #LI-6692