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Baseband IC Group: The baseband IC group at Newport Media has open full-time positions for Systems and VLSI Engineers. This is an opportunity to work for a fabless semiconductor company on mixed signal ICs for the wireless handheld market. The successful candidate will be joining an experienced team of systems, digital, analog, mixed signal, and RF designers involved in designing mobile media receivers for the next generation handheld devices. Newport Media offers competitive salaries, benefits, and stock option packages.
Baseband Systems Engineer: The successful candidate should have the following qualifications
- PhD/MS in EE with related experience (PhD preferred).
- Strong Matlab and C programming skills.
- Strong knowledge of communication systems and/or digital signal processing algorithms.
- Knowledge of FEC algorithms such as Viterbi, RS, and Turbo decoding algorithms.
- Knowledge of wireless channel models.
- Experience with DVB-T and/or ISDB-T is a plus.
- Familiarity with ASIC and FPGA hardware architectures is a plus.
- Laboratory test and verification experience is a plus.
Baseband VLSI Engineer - IC Integration Focus: The successful candidate should have the following qualifications
- Experience with AHB and APB bus protocol and analysis.
- Experience with low power design and analysis
- Experience with industry standard protocols such as USB, I2C, SPI, SDIO, memory interfaces, etc.
- Experience with DFT, including scan, JTAG, and memory BIST.
- Design experience with on-chip clock and reset generation logic.
- Experience integrating programmable and/or hardwired DSP processors into SoCs.
- Experience integrating AMS blocks such as ADCs and PLLs.
- Knowledge of production requirements such as package design, ATE test development, Failure
analysis, yield enhancement, and PCB design.
- Able to communicate well with peers, management, and customers.
- Knowledge of ASIC design flow, including functional verification, synthesis, static timing analysis,
formal verification.
- Laboratory test and verification experience is a plus.
Baseband VLSI Engineer - DSP/Comm Focus: The successful candidate should have the following qualifications
- Strong RTL coding skills using Verilog and/or VHDL.
- Matlab and C programming skills.
- Knowledge of communication systems (e.g., OFDM, QAM) and digital signal processing algorithms.
- Experience designing and verifying VLSI designs for DSP such as FIR filters, FFTs, and FEC decoders (e.g. Viterbi, RS, or Turbo).
- Strong knowledge of fixed-point two's complement arithmetic.
- Knowledge of design trade-off for low power implementation.
- Experience with real-time emulation on FPGAs is a plus.
- Laboratory test and verification experience is a plus.
Candidates interested in a baseband systems engineer
position can forward their resume and a cover letter to
Dr. Nabil Yousef
Director of Systems Engineering,
Newport Media Inc.
nyousef@newportmediainc.com
Candidates interested in a baseband VLSI engineer
position can forward their resume and a cover letter to
Dr. Tracy Denk
Director of VLSI Design
Newport Media Inc.
tdenk@newportmediainc.com |
