Description
Proteus Europe operating as an employment agency, is currently seeking a Senior Analogue IC Designer.Successful candidates will have extensive analogue CMOS / biCMOS experience and have designs in volume production today. The successful candidate will be joining a small team with the highest academic qualifications, extensive industrial experience and an enviable right-first-time track record. Designers at the Senior level are expect to have a significant positive impact in respect of creativity, accuracy and productivity.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
The Senior Analogue IC Designer will:
" Work with colleagues in the Systems team to help optimally partition the system solution and make the most cost effective integration trade-offs; " Work with colleagues in the IC Design team to devise a chip architecture, refine it to block level and agree a chip floor plan; " Devise innovative circuit solutions that implement the complex and intellectually challenging functions and control schemes necessary to deliver target system performance; " Capture his/her design in schematic form according to the methodology and quality standards developed and adopted by the design team; " Simulate his/her designs, according to well defined plans and specifications, to verify correctness and fitness for purpose; " Share responsibility for compact cell layout with specialist layout designers in the team; " Diligently employ best practice methods in analogue IC Design to ensure that first silicon behaves as intended and as simulated before tape out; " Avoid circuits or layouts that might be inadequately modelled in the process design kit; " Verify design correctness by comprehensive circuit simulations, including Monte Carlo methods; " Design circuits for testability and manufacturability, so helping us maximise yield and product margin; " Ensure that his/her circuits, when integrated in the complete chip with all its parasitics, deliver the required performance over process, supply voltage and temperature; " Ensure that his/her circuits and layouts comply fully with the design rules (physical and electrical) of the process and its design kit; " Carry out detailed peer review of the circuits and layouts created by colleagues in the IC Design team, so helping maintain the team's first-time-success rate;
Qualifications and Experience The Senior Analogue IC Designer will have: " A bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering or related subject and, quite likely a second degree (MSc or PhD) as well; " Extensive and demonstrable experience of full custom analogue IC Design on CMOS or biCMOS processes, preferably including 0.35 m CMOS; " Designs already in production that serve high volume, cost driven end market applications.
Competencies and Knowledge In respect of IC design, Senior Analogue IC Designer candidates must:
" Have in-depth knowledge and understanding of analogue circuit design, theory and practice, including precision and micropower design of the following: o Op amps and comparators; o ADC's and DAC's, including delta-sigma converters; o Linear regulators; o Current sources and current mirrors; o Voltage references; o Filters; o Switched capacitor methods; o Oscillators. " Have in depth knowledge and understanding of best-practice analogue IC design methods (theory and practice); " Have comprehensive understanding and knowledge of layout best practice to ensure best possible component performance, tolerance and matching; " Be an expert user of IC design tools (such as Cadence and Mentor); " Have a thorough understanding of DFM and DFT, appreciate their importance and know the techniques by which to optimise designs accordingly; " Understand the criticality of manufacturing yield and of know how to implement circuits such that they that do not present a design yield hazard;