Description
FPGA Design Engineer required for a leading Aerospace company based in Cheltenham to be involved in the development of FPGAs for Cockpit Display Systems; designing and verifying; working to DO254 Dal A saftey critical standards.
Activities include:
- Authoring of FPGA/ASIC requirements to internal development processes for the certification of Airborne Hardware.
- Authoring of FPGA/ASIC conceptual design documentation
- Development of VHDL code against a set of requirements to an agreed coding standard.
- Create trace Matrix linking design requirements to low level VHDL code
- Running of RTL and gate level simulations on FPGA designs and documenting results in a formal test report document.
- Analysis of FPGA/ASIC design test results and identifying areas of non-compliance to design specification.
- Liaise closely with other FPGA/ASIC design engineers to develop design changes to correct any identified issues.
- Perform Elemental Analysis of VHDL code and create test solutions or justifications to give 100% test code coverage.
- Perform VHDL code scrutiny against internal coding standard.
- Assist in the generation of design Hardware Accomplish Summary for presentation to applicable certification authority.
- Verification activities carried out to DO254 standard
Experience & Knowledge:
Essential:
- Extensive experience of design and verification of complex FPGA/ASIC designs using VHDL
- Experience of generating requirements based test cases and creating traceability reports
- Familiarity with self-checking test benches
- Extensive knowledge of ModelSim test benching environment
- Ability to understand and work to internal development processes.
- Good appreciation of configuration control methods and working knowledge of formal configuration control tools.
Aviation experience is not essential
FPGA ASIC VHDL DESIGN VERIFICATION AEROSPACE AVIATION RTL MODELSIM VALIDATION