Embedded Hardware Designer
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Ahmedabad
Job description
The selected candidate will be responsible for evolving hardware designs for specialized electronic subsystems (going to hundreds of MHz operational frequency, tens of Gbps data throughput and involving devices like FPGAs with thousand pins or more) based on subsystem functional requirements available from system designers. The work typically may involve, but not necessarily be limited to, the following activities:
- Understanding subsystem requirements available from system designers and identifying a core electronic hardware architecture to fulfil the same
- Identify a suitable critical BoM commensurate with the functional requirements and project schedules
- Prepare block-diagram level design and present for review
- Initiate procurement activity for the components
- Prepare (or help preparation of, as the case may be) schematics for the designs and design analysis documents for review
- Guide the design of PCBs (likely to be multilayer high-speed boards with FPGAs of 1000 pins or more)
- Oversee outsourced component mounting in accordance with quality requirements
- Carry on board bring up tests
- Interact with software designers to prepare appropriate test cases and exercise the external ICD and on-board performance parameters
- Test the design for integrity over temperature, vibration and vacuum tolerance and other environmental validation requirements (may involve EMI/EMC also)
- Hand over the qualified hardware to software designers to take the development forward.
- Present the designs to various reviews during the developmental and project phases and incorporate the respective comments
As a general rule, Azista requires that all engineers take an enthusiastic part in whatever activity they are required to contribute to in order to make the missions and the company successful.
Abilities Required:
The knowledge base required in the candidate will in general be a clear understanding of the fundamentals of
- Circuit theory and electronics in general, the behaviour of different electronic components
- Good skills in reading and understanding data sheets, interpreting data sheet information qualitatively and quantitatively and know how to translate them into schematic-level topographies
- Knowledge of how to build schematics including high-density devices like FPGAs with more than a thousand pins
- The nuances of high-speed high-density designs and a good knowledge of PCB design fundamentals to guide the PCB designers properly for ensuring intended performance.
Qualification:
The successful candidate is likely to have
- An electronics degree, master's preferred but not necessary
- A consistent career in hardware design of (6 to 10 years at least) with exposure to high-density Xilinx (Now AMD) or Actel (Now Microchip) FPGAs
- Exposure to high-speed and/or RF design (Only RF design is NOT suitable)
- A desirable experience in high-speed SERDES-based designs with modern FPGAs
- Exposure to high-speed data handling and memory interfacing like DDR3/4
- A knowledge of how to do peripheral design around modern high-speed FPGAs like decoupling needs, power quality and POL conditioning including meeting sequencing needs
- A good knowledge of how to estimate rough-order-of-magnitude power consumption figures even before a full design is evolved
Note: Interviews are likely to be multi-level and very detailed. Please who do not check most of the points above may not be suitable at all.
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