Senior Staff DFT Engineer

Job Description

About the team: As part of Renesas’s Infrastructure Power Business, you will contribute to the development of our next-generation digital power management ICs. These are mixed-signal, MCU-based SOC designs that power cloud computing in the datacenter.

What we need: We are seeking a Mixed-Signal DFT Engineer to ensure efficient, high-coverage, testability for analog and mixed-signal designs.

What you will do:

• Own the test plan for all analog and mixed signal content
  • Ensure integrity in observability and controllability of each design block to/from the pins of the part
  • Ensure all blocks can be tested in a timely manner
  • Ensure as many blocks as possible can be tested in parallel on-chip with minimal tester interaction
  • Ensure calibration and trim routines can be efficiently generated
  • Create definitions and procedures for block testing that can be used for ATE test generation

• Specify test, trim and calibration requirements for analog circuits blocks such as PLLs, DLLs, ADCs and DAC’s
  • Test interfaces
  • Logic controls
  • Self-test and firmware-based test routines

• Modify block schematics and behavioral models as needed to implement testability features
• Write Firmware to exercise test routines
• Simulate test routines to demonstrate adherence to parametric block specs with process, voltage, temperature variations and noise
• Bench testing of test patterns and firmware prior to transfer to ATE
• Coordinate with other Engineering disciplines
  • Design to ensure DFT approach is effective and efficient (silicon area cost < test time savings)
  • Firmware to ensure trim procedures can be efficiently uploaded and run at test
  • Verification to ensure all functions and trims can be tested using firmware/DFT test modes
  • ATE Test to ensure all test hardware requirements are correct and up to date, and to ensure that DFT simulations are easily transferable to ATE methods

Qualifications

• SystemVerilog
• Cadence Virtuoso
• Working understanding of C/C programming experience for microcontrollers.
• Fundamental understanding of mixed-signal design blocks: ADC’s/DAC’s, etc
• Understanding of ATE test time costs and hardware/tester limitations
• Familiarity with Firmware, ATE program structure and capabilities is a plus
• Familiarity with Lab/bench validation
• 10 years of experience
• Bachelors/Masters Electrical Engineer or Computer Engineering 

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

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