Overview:
BSM product line is part of Motor Drive products group in ASC. BSM products are a key focus area for R&D and product development for TI. Precise Signal, Intelligent Control and Power transfer are key areas of research and product development for the team. The key challenges for product development that the team works on are:
TBasic Qualifications:
Bachelor's/Master's Degree in EE
2-5 Years Analog Design Experience
Basic Job Qualifications:
Preferred qualification:
Primary responsibilities:
About the job
If you are looking to join an ingenious, vigorous & ambitious team that consistently delivers groundbreaking technologies into the custom mobile electronics world, here is an opportunity for you!
The Custom product business is delivering industry leading custom IC system solutions including display and touch power products, camera PMICs, charger power products, power switches/muxes, Laser drivers, High speed communication interfaces. Our solutions integrate signal chain and power components, that enable TI customers to differentiate their next-gen products in the personal electronics domain. This is a great opportunity to be part of the best custom semiconductor team in the world.
Basic Qualifications:
• The ideal candidate will have proven skillset in the field of analog and mixed signal design with passion and excitement to participate in Tier1 custom IC development. The candidate should have demonstrated experience in driving analog design innovation and best practices across their organization.
• The candidate will also work independently with little supervision to design complex analog circuits or lead projects with multiple, cross-functional engineers; operate with complete block/project ownership to drive all aspects of the block/project to successful completion in the committed schedule; be able to manage design workloads and delegate tasks for project success; deliver accurate, aggressive, but attainable design schedules to the product team and customers; manage the design phase of the project to efficiently utilize scarce project resources; anticipate and highlight any/all risks in the design schedule during the planning phase of the project and implement plans to mitigate these risks; as well as drive high level, dynamic interaction with customers/sales in technical meetings.
• Must have theoretical background and practical experience in mixed-signal IC design. Competency in the analysis, transistor level design and system implementation of at least several of following basic analog functions including amplifiers, bandgaps, comparators, LDO's, charge pumps, ADC, DACs, or switching regulators. Must be capable of hand (i.e. pen and paper) analysis as well as working knowledge and familiarity with simulation tools (i.e. SPICE, Spectre, VHDL, etc.).
In this role, responsibilities may include:
• Direct, guide and participate in activities of a research or technical design function responsible for designing, developing, modifying and evaluating electronic parts, components, integrated circuits for a variety of applications
• Make assignments for team members, providing design guidance as needed, developing schedules and monitoring progress throughout the project
• Evaluate intermediate and final results of projects during the design phase and during silicon evaluation, to ensure accomplishment of technical objectives
• Work with and provide guidance to physical designers and monitors the progress of IC layout
• Collaborate with Design Verification teams during the pre-PG phase of a project to ensure completion of all technical tasks before PG
• Work with systems engineers, application engineers and marketing to prepare product briefs, datasheets, application notes and assisting in the definition of the product to meet customer needs as well as contributing to roadmap formulation and new concept creation
• Collaborate with validation, product engineering and test engineering teams to enable successful transfer to production
• Interface and lead discussions with the customer and/or TI field sales/field applications teams to understand customer designs, problems and support as required
• Actively participate in hiring, developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation of the organization and growth of the individuals into leader
Minimum requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field of study
• 2-5 years of relevant experience
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
• Deep understanding of semiconductor IC processing, semiconductor packaging, and production test solutions is desirable. Solid understanding and familiarity with advanced IC CAD tools including top-down methodologies (i.e.VHDL, Cosim, etc.) are highly desirable.
• Expertise in BCD process technologies
• System level understanding and analysis; and the ability to translate requirements to an IC spec level
• IC system partitioning and signal chain analysis, architectural tradeoff analysis
• Active involvement with a customers. Candidate would be expected to interact and collaborate with a sense of ownership with customers and all product development team members including design, layout, systems, applications, verification, validation, product, test and program management
• Block level topology selection, hand analysis, and IC transistor level implementation
• Schematic generation and simulation on modern CAD tools (Cadence tool set)
• Worst case identification, top level simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, and simulation data analysis
• Physical layout management, signal grounding and routing tradeoffs, die area optimization
• Post layout parasitic extraction and simulation, verification of all IC level performance metrics
• Top level verification, block level modeling, top level simulation
• Must budget time, manage schedule and complete complex IC design tasks on time
• Must have depth of experience and meticulous approach to assure high quality results
• Must account for limitations of system level specifications, testability, debug, characterization, production and yield targets in the IC design phase.
• Must work well with colleagues and customers to foster a highly creative, interesting, productive and fun working environment.
Organizational Skills: Ability to work well with internal cross functional teams. Must successfully and appropriately interface with external customers. Project management, time management, multi-tasking, problem solving and communication (written and oral) are important skills in this role. Must be able to manage assigned tasks with minimal supervision.
Team and People Skills: Candidate must be team oriented and must be able to work with TI-internal and external groups (systems, test, sales, marketing, customers, etc.) to resolve issues and generate business success. The ability to work well with others and to perform in a team environment is essential.
Projects and Deliverables: The main deliverable is the timely release of meticulously analyzed and simulated IC designs or sub-sections of designs for custom designs with tight schedules. These designs should lead to cost-effective, high quality, bug-free products that fully meet our customer's end-system requirements.
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The Custom product business of Texas Instruments is looking for talented Switching Converter design leads. If you are looking to join an ingenious, vigorous & ambitious team that consistently delivers groundbreaking technologies into the custom mobile electronics world, here is an opportunity for you!
In this role you will be choosing switching converter architectures for Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost, Inverting Buck-boost and SIMO converters, innovating to meet the best efficiency, transient-performance and IDDQ at high operational frequencies, to enable our customers to get the best battery life for hand-held electronic devices. Suitable candidates with proven experience in leading switching converter designs, track -record in pushing performance boundaries by way of innovation, an in-depth silicon debug experience can apply.
The Custom product line is delivering industry leading custom IC system solutions including display and touch power products, charger power products, camera PMICs, power switches/muxes, LED drivers, High speed communication interfaces. Our solutions integrate signal chain and power components, that enable TI customers to differentiate their next-gen products in the personal electronics domain. This is a great opportunity to be part of the best custom semiconductor team in the world.
Basic Qualifications:
• The ideal candidate will be have proven expertise in the field of analog and mixed signal design with experience in switching DCDC regulators design e.g. multi-phase buck, boost ,buck-boost, inverting buck-boost converters
• The ideal candidate will bring passion and excitement to participate in Tier1 custom IC development. The candidate should have demonstrated experience in power converter design innovation and best practices across their organization, and should excel at teaching junior team members.
• The candidate will work independently with little supervision to design complex power converter analog circuits with multiple, cross-functional engineers; operate with complete block ownership to drive all aspects of the block design tasks to successful completion in the committed schedule; manage design workloads and delegate tasks for project success; deliver accurate, aggressive, but attainable design schedules to the product team and customers; manage the design phase to efficiently utilize scarce project resources; anticipate and highlight any/all risks in the design schedule during the planning phase of the project and implement plans to mitigate these risks; drive high level, dynamic interaction with customers/sales in technical meetings.
• Must have solid understanding of power stage design and layout including gate drivers, control loops, fault systems and power Fets. Competency in the analysis, transistor level design and system implementation of analog functions for power converters including amplifiers, voltage/current references, comparators, LDO's, charge pumps, DACs etc. Must be capable of hand (i.e. pen and paper) analysis as well as have fluent knowledge and familiarity with simulation tools (i.e. SPICE, Spectre, Maestro, Midas, Raaga, VPS).
In this role, responsibilities may include:
• Lead an Analog IC design with product ownership and responsibility from definition to release to manufacturing
• Direct, guide and participate in activities of a research or technical design function responsible for designing, developing, modifying and evaluating electronic parts, components, integrated circuits for a variety of applications
• Make assignments for team members, providing design guidance as needed, developing schedules and monitoring progress throughout the project
• Evaluate intermediate and final results of projects during the design phase and during silicon evaluation, to ensure accomplishment of technical objectives
• Work with and provide guidance to physical designers and monitors the progress of IC layout
• Collaborate with Design Verification teams during the pre-PG phase of a project to ensure completion of all technical tasks before PG
• Work with systems engineers, application engineers and marketing to prepare product briefs, datasheets, application notes and assisting in the definition of the product to meet customer needs as well as contributing to roadmap formulation and new concept creation
• Collaborate with validation, product engineering and test engineering teams to enable successful transfer to production
• Interface and lead discussions with the customer and/or TI field sales/field applications teams to understand customer designs, problems and support as required
• Actively participate in hiring, developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation of the organization and growth of the individuals into leader
Minimum requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field of study
• 10+ years of analog circuit design and switching converter design
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in switching DCDC regulators design e.g. multi-phase buck, boost and buck-boost converters.
• Solid understanding of different control architectures (DCS/AOT/COT, peak/valley/average current mode)
• Knowledge of device physics and process technologies tradeoffs that are applicable to Power IC design
• Expertise in tools e.g. Spectre, Simplis, Matlab and AMS
• System level understanding and analysis; and the ability to translate requirements to an IC spec level
• IC system partitioning and architectural tradeoff analysis
• Active involvement with a customers. Candidate would be expected to interact and collaborate with a sense of ownership with customers and all product development team members including design, layout, systems, verification, validation, test and program management
• Block level topology selection, hand analysis, and IC transistor level implementation
• Schematic generation and simulation on modern CAD tools (Cadence tool set)
• Worst case identification, top level simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, and simulation data analysis
• Physical layout management, signal grounding and routing tradeoffs, die area optimization
• Post layout parasitic extraction and simulation, verification of all IC level performance metrics
• Top level verification, block level modeling, top level simulation
• Must budget time, manage schedule and complete complex IC design tasks on time
• Must have depth of experience and meticulous approach to assure high quality results
• Must account for limitations of system level specifications, testability, debug, characterization, production and yield targets in the IC design phase.
• Must work well with colleagues and customers to foster a highly creative, interesting, productive and fun working environment.
Organizational Skills: Ability to work well with internal cross functional teams. Must successfully and appropriately interface with external customers. Project management, time management, multi-tasking, problem solving and communication (written and oral) are important skills in this role. Must be able to manage assigned tasks with minimal supervision.
Team and People Skills: Candidate must be team oriented and must be able to work with TI-internal and external groups (systems, test, sales, marketing, customers, etc.) to resolve issues and generate business success. The ability to work well with others and to perform in a team environment is essential.
Projects and Deliverables: The main deliverable is the timely release of meticulously analyzed and simulated IC designs or sub-sections of designs for custom designs with tight schedules. These designs should lead to cost-effective, high quality, bug-free products that fully meet our customer's end-system requirements
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About the Job
We're seeking an experienced Analog Design Engineer to join our Audio Group, responsible for designing and developing state-of-the-art audio amplifiers. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of analog circuit design, and the ability to drive projects from concept to production.
What can you expect to learn in this role? (Opportunity)
Key Responsibilities:
1. Design and Development:
- Lead the design and development of high-performance analog circuits from signal chain domain to high power domain .
- Ensure designs meet specified performance, quality, and reliability standards.
- Conduct design reviews and provide technical guidance to team members.
2. Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in analog design and audio technology.
- Encourage innovation and the adoption of new technologies within the team.
- Continuously improve design processes and methodologies.
3. Collaboration and Communication:
- Work closely with other engineering teams to integrate analog designs into larger systems.
- Communicate project status, challenges, and solutions to senior management and stakeholders.
- Interface with customers and partners as needed to understand requirements and provide technical support.
Required Qualifications:
Who are we and what do we do?
TI offers one of the world's largest comprehensive portfolio of Multi phase voltage regulators addressing requirement of various market segments like Intel Server, AMD servers, personal electronics and automotive. Power Stage development team has full product development responsibility from definition till releasing product to market. We also take pride in challenging norms on innovation & executing those innovative ideas into products with aggressive, customer-driven timelines.
What will you be doing in this role? (Responsibilities)
Responsible for developing a coverage driven verification plan by working closely with System, APPS and design team to ensure first pass silicon success
Model development using RNM/EENET
Develop test scenarios, automation and create stimulus to verify the design under test
Work with regression tools and develop scripts to submit cases for regression analysis
Contribute to continuous improvements for quality and efficiency on DV strategy, tools, methods and flows
What do we expect from you? (Mini Qualifications)
Knowledge and Skills
Strong in Circuit Debug
Automation using Verilog AMS
Ability to debug circuit issues independently and report issues
Model development using EENET, RNM is an added advantage
Knowledge of System Verilog is an added advantage
Proficiency in Scripting languages and utilities including Python, Perl, etc.
Other
Good team player, attitude and thirst for continuous learning
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to function independently
Preferred Skills/ Experience
2-5 Years' experience in Mixed Signal verification
Skills: Virtuoso, Verilog, Verilog AMS, Cadence tools like xrun/ncsim/Vmanager
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