Silicon Design Validation Intern - Lattice Semiconductor

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Do you have a passion for invention and self-challenge? This intern position gives you an opportunity to learn and participate in one of the most cutting-edge projects that Lattice’s Silicon Engineering team has embarked upon to date.

We are validating building blocks in Silicon on board level to ensure functionality and performance aspects of the Design intent. FPGA consists of various IPs as a building block such as SERDES, Memory DDR, DPHY, PLL etc. As a Silicon Design Validation intern, you will have an opportunity to learn and train yourself on how to validate one of the building blocks within the FPGA. This will help acquiring knowledge on design & verification of usage case in FPGA to enable your validation. And you will be able to acquire knowledge on the process/methodology required for validating certain IPs from planning to execution. While you are working on those, you will be exposed to cutting-edge equipment and advanced boards as well as Various SW/tools/scripts.

Accountabilities

The ideal Intern candidate is highly motivated in developing a career in Silicon Design Validation Engineering. You will get significant exposure and training in the following areas:

• Validate and characterize integrated circuit (IC) products from tape-out through release to production.
• Develop validation and characterization plans, bench hardware and software.
• Develop use case RTL to achieve the required test.
• Drive new silicon product bring-up, debug and characterization to determine product performance.
• Serve as the central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality and marketing as the product(s) move to production release.
• Functional validation. Performance measurement. Measured data analysis, data sheet preparation and reviewing the test result
• Schedule and maintain status of new product validation, characterization process and qualification issues pertaining to new product introduction.
• Interact with internal design, manufacturing, and applications on all product issues.
• Support device failure analysis as required to resolve any device-related problems

Required Skills
• Electrical Engineering degree with a strong desire to pursue an engineering career in Silicon Design Validation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to work with cross-functional team
• Self-motivated and proactive with critical thinking.
• Good problem solving and de-bugging skills.

The base pay for this role is between $23 to $53 per hour.

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry.  Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions.  Our global workforce, some 800 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win.  For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management  devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com.  You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace.  Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.

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