Job Summary
Qualifications:
- Degree in BEng Electronic Engineering or BEng Computer Engineering
Experience:
- Company is looking for an FPGA Firmware Engineer with knowledge of Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and Programmable Logic Devices (FPGA, CPLD), where you will be responsible for the design and development of embedded firmware relating to digital
communication systems, with a focus on wireless communications and encryption. - As part of the engineering team, you will work in an agile development environment with other software
engineers, hardware engineers and R&D test engineers on multi-year international project - 5 years of firmware or low level embedded software development experience
- Strong understanding of Synchronous Digital Design Principles
- Experience with VHDL or Verilog development for FPGAs (Intel and Xilinx).
- Experience with FPGA timing analysis and timing closure.
- Experience with VHDL unit testing and simulation.
- Experience with HDL toolchains (Intel Quartus, Xilinx Vivado and, Siemens Modelsim).
- Experience with generating VHDL from the MATLAB toolchain.
- Experience in communication interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, McBSP, PCI Express and Gigabit ETHERNET.
- Experience with integration and testing of firmware, embedded software and electronic hardware systems.
- Experience with implementing interface drivers for FPGA components.
- Experience in developing embedded applications with C and C++.
Duties:
- Implement various signal processing and cryptographic algorithms on FPGAs.
- Implement control and data interfaces between processors, DSPs and FPGAs.
- Implement and simulate custom and off-the-shelf IP blocks.
- Integrate and test firmware and software on custom electronic hardware platforms.
- Provide production support on developed firmware.
Maintain and improve the Company FPGA build and development ecosystem. - Develop firmware in accordance with relevant standards and specifications
Objective Personnel
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Clearwater Office Park, Block E, Cnr Atlas & Park Roads, Parkhaven Ext 3
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