Hardware Validation Engineer Resume Example

Xeon (Skylake) next generation series microprocessor (2013 - present)

• Own co-simulation of new memory protocol over DDR4 physical interface. Responsible for development of test plan, Perl based stimulus, C++ test bench components, and configuration.
• Developed C++ test bench components to coordinate simulation milestones and configuration between two independent RTL simulators.
• Coordinating multiple technical areas related to the new memory protocol including BIOS/physical-layer, power management features, SMBUS, and RAS.
• Collaborating with design team in California.

Xeon (Broadwell) next generation series microprocessor(2013 - present)

• Validating a specific DIMM configuration in co-simulation for a scalable memory interface (SMI). The DIMM BFM does not support the feature, and my testing provides confidence in correct RTL behavior.
• Collaborating with design team in India.

10nm road map (2013 - present)

• Leading a debug and automation work group to establish guidelines, methodologies, and tool solutions for all 10nm products.

Xeon (HSX) 22nm next generation series microprocessor (2012-2013)

• Co-owned co-simulation of multi-socket Quickpath Interconnect.
• Owned co-simulation of a scalable memory interface (SMI).
• Lead coordination between DDR-I/O validation team and BIOS team for validation of BIOS in pre-silicon.
• Created pseudo training flows using Perl stimulus to quickly train the DDR I/O without BIOS for speedier testing of protocol traffic.
• Enhanced a C++ agent designed as a bridge between BIOS executable and memory BFM to also work in co-simulation.
• Developed that were the primary vehicle for BIOS testing and found bugs before silicon power-on.

Xeon P1200 series microprocessor (2010-2012)

• Took initiative and wrote a project agnostic Perl environment for running all future server co-simulations.
• Co-owned test plan, stimulus, and checking for co-simulation of a scalable memory interface (SMI).
• Created Specman test content for protocol traffic, BIOS driven physical layer training, power management features, and RAS features.
• Developed a Specman driver to allow the host simulation to configure a memory buffer during runtime over a set of bus and control signals.
• Enhanced a Specman agent designed as a bridge between BIOS and the memory BFM to also work in co-simulation with a real RTL memory buffer.
• Found several RTL and BIOS bugs in co-simulation otherwise not found with a BFM. This greatly shortened post-silicon power-on.

Itanium 9500 series microprocessor (2008-2010)

• Part of a validation team for both a scalable memory interface (SMI) and Quickpath Path Interconnect.
• The responsibilities involved initial path clearing, test plan execution, writing focused and exerciser stimulus using BFM agents.
• In addition, wrote stimulus and drove test plan execution for a co-simulation between the host processor and an I/O hub. Also wrote stimulus and drove test plan execution for a co-simulation between the host processor and a scalable memory interface (SMI).

Itanium 9300 series microprocessor (2005-2007)

• Part of a validation team for a FBD memory interface. The responsibilities involved initial path clearing, test plan execution, writing focused and exerciser stimulus, checker development, and creating and filling coverage.
• Owned integration of a FBD BFM with a C++ test bench and developed a memory pre-load feature.
• Wrote defect/fault detection test patterns used at the manufacturing level.
• Support person for a set of exerciser maintenance and triage tools/scripts

Validation tools team (2003 - 2005)

• Supported a C++ simulation run tool used by the entire validation team.
• Added new flows to the simulation run tool for newly identified cluster model testing.
• Added features to a simulation event GUI written in C++/Qt and used by validation engineers for simulation debug