Apple Inc.
Touch ASIC Architect (Digital)
Apple Inc., Austin, Texas, us, 78716
Design, develop, and launch next-generation Touch Technologies in Apple products! The Touch Technology team develops groundbreaking Touch solutions and technologies that are central to Apple’s products, including the iPhone, iPad, MacBooks, and more! The key goal of our team is to enable the world’s best multi-touch user experience. Our team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that fosters engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation.An ASIC Digital Architect within our Touch Technologies team is responsible for analyzing the application and coming up with cost and power optimized digital architecture for the touch and other sensing ASICs. These designs may include one or multiple processors and/or DSP cores and microarchitecture of custom control engines.Description
You will be architecting Touch sensing systems and the ASICs required to realize them. You will also be expected to take high-level user requirements and create a realizable system that meets these goals. This will include high-level modeling of proposed solutions, along with creating detailed specifications of the requirements. This is a highly cross-functional role, and you will work collaboratively to identify critical aspects of how the design will interact with the overall product.Responsibilities include:
Creating Touch sensor digital system architectureDeveloping high performance, low power signal processing architectures and sensing algorithms to achieve the best touch solutionsAuthoring detailed specifications, analyses, and characterization plans for touch system ASICs based on these architecturesDefining System-level and IC micro-architecture of complex digital and mixed-signal ASICs, including requirements for: ARM processing, memory, bus, DSP sub-systems, Power Management, clocking, I/O interfaces, and peripheralsDefining common Digital platform architecture framework, including design methodology and best practices to be used as a reference for the Architecture teamOptimizing designs across multiple disciplines, including Hardware/Firmware design partitioning, trade-off assessments, design checking and tolerance analysisContributing technical assessments to strategic decision-making relating to technology and investmentsPerforming defect root cause analysis and resolution including diligent bug database trackingCommunicating program status, technical issues, risks, and mitigations plans, clearly and conciselyMinimal business travel as needed to support product developmentMinimum Qualifications
Key Qualifications
Experience leading chip architecture and/or digital design is desirable, preferably in touch or communicationsExperience developing and launching high-volume IC designsStrong electrical engineering background in embedded system design, including: ASIC microarchitecture, computer architecture, SoC architecture, and custom or standard DSP or hardware accelerator microarchitectureExperience in FPGA emulation system design preferred, including leading pre-silicon system validation, prototype bring-up, debug, validation, characterization, and module integration supportExcellent written and verbal communication skills and solid teamwork and leadership skillsExperience with IC bring-up and debugProficiency in MATLAB, Verilog, or similar simulation, design and modeling toolsExperience with DSP and/or algorithm development is a plusDirect experience with touch technology and/or flat panel display technology is beneficialPreferred Qualifications
Education & Experience
BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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You will be architecting Touch sensing systems and the ASICs required to realize them. You will also be expected to take high-level user requirements and create a realizable system that meets these goals. This will include high-level modeling of proposed solutions, along with creating detailed specifications of the requirements. This is a highly cross-functional role, and you will work collaboratively to identify critical aspects of how the design will interact with the overall product.Responsibilities include:
Creating Touch sensor digital system architectureDeveloping high performance, low power signal processing architectures and sensing algorithms to achieve the best touch solutionsAuthoring detailed specifications, analyses, and characterization plans for touch system ASICs based on these architecturesDefining System-level and IC micro-architecture of complex digital and mixed-signal ASICs, including requirements for: ARM processing, memory, bus, DSP sub-systems, Power Management, clocking, I/O interfaces, and peripheralsDefining common Digital platform architecture framework, including design methodology and best practices to be used as a reference for the Architecture teamOptimizing designs across multiple disciplines, including Hardware/Firmware design partitioning, trade-off assessments, design checking and tolerance analysisContributing technical assessments to strategic decision-making relating to technology and investmentsPerforming defect root cause analysis and resolution including diligent bug database trackingCommunicating program status, technical issues, risks, and mitigations plans, clearly and conciselyMinimal business travel as needed to support product developmentMinimum Qualifications
Key Qualifications
Experience leading chip architecture and/or digital design is desirable, preferably in touch or communicationsExperience developing and launching high-volume IC designsStrong electrical engineering background in embedded system design, including: ASIC microarchitecture, computer architecture, SoC architecture, and custom or standard DSP or hardware accelerator microarchitectureExperience in FPGA emulation system design preferred, including leading pre-silicon system validation, prototype bring-up, debug, validation, characterization, and module integration supportExcellent written and verbal communication skills and solid teamwork and leadership skillsExperience with IC bring-up and debugProficiency in MATLAB, Verilog, or similar simulation, design and modeling toolsExperience with DSP and/or algorithm development is a plusDirect experience with touch technology and/or flat panel display technology is beneficialPreferred Qualifications
Education & Experience
BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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