CPU Design Intern

SiFive • Santa Clara, CA

14d • $32 - $39

About The Position

About SiFive As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms have enabled leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize, and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, datacenter, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits. What You Will Work On As an Intern on the Out-of-Order Core/Cache Design team, you will develop RTL for SiFive’s flagship RISC-V core series using the Chisel hardware description language. Specific projects will depend on the interests of the candidate, but may include RTL feasibility experiments, power analysis/reduction, performance enhancements, and/or designing/improving small logic modules. What You Will Learn Digital logic and RTL design principles. The Chisel hardware design generator language. High-performance CPU micro-architecture, power analysis and optimization techniques. How to work as part of a tight-knit, agile team that stresses good design, documentation, verification testing, and code review practices.

Requirements

• Pursuing a Master's or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a similar discipline.
• Advanced academic understanding of Computer Architecture, Out-of-Order CPU Micro-architecture, Caches, and RTL design.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity or academic experience with Chisel, or at least Object Oriented Programming or functional programming, is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• develop RTL for SiFive’s flagship RISC-V core series using the Chisel hardware description language.
• RTL feasibility experiments
• power analysis/reduction
• performance enhancements
• designing/improving small logic modules

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees