Performance Simulator (PSIM) Engineer

Company: MIPS
Location: San Jose
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

Seeking an experienced CPU Performance modeling and analysis engineer to work with CPU architects, micro-architects and RTL designers in delivering high performance CPU cores and sub-systems.Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's degree with 4+ years of experience in CPU performance analysis
• Deep understanding of CPU Architecture. Understanding of in-order / out-of-order pipelines
• Understanding and experience with cycle accurate simulator
• Strong coding (C, C++) and scripting (Python/Perl) skills
• Good understanding of industry standard benchmarks like SPEC (06, 17), Coremark, CoreMark-ProPreferred Qualifications
  • Knowledge/experience with RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS architectures
  • Prior experience with QEMU, GEM5 is a plusRoles and Responsibilities
    • Drive the micro-architecture and design of a critical CPU block or multiple blocks
    • Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.
    • Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at detailed specification.
    • RTL ownership. Configurable Design Features Development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals.
    • Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute the functional verification strategy.
    • Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
    • Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.About MIPSAfter pioneering many innovations in high-performance single and multi-core CPUs and clusters with the MIPS instruction set architecture, we are now bringing our proven, highly scalable, and configurable solutions to high-performance RISC-V CPUs. As part of our start-up journey as a RISC-V company, you will have the opportunity to work with some of the most talented engineers on next-generation high performance, energy efficiency, and scalable CPU development.

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