Texas Instruments UK Design team have been at
the forefront of Integrated Circuit Design for more than twenty
years. In that time, our products have grown from 4-bit
microcontrollers to multi-million gate mixed signal Integrated
Circuits (ICs).
Today the UK Design team continues to be at the sharp end of TI's IC
design activities. We specialize in design at the very limits of the
latest technologies. We operate where analogue and digital design
techniques merge. We excel where a critical balance of innovation
and pragmatism is essential to address the challenging needs of our
customers around the world. We are rewarded when we make our
customers successful.
The UK Design Team is built around world leading groups:
We have exciting
career opportunities for
high caliber
experienced
engineers,
graduates,
undergraduates for industrial placements
within the UK Design Team.
High
Speed Circuit Design
Getting information into and out of today's ever faster ICs is a
growing challenge, demanding new and sophisticated techniques to solve
high speed system requirements.
This leading edge work includes some of
the following activities:
- Development of high-speed communication
technology for chip-to-chip and board-to-board applications.
- High-speed signaling techniques
- Noise-tolerant, low-jitter PLL
design
- Jitter-tolerant clock recovery
strategies
Key design skills in this area include
:
- Transistor level design - both digital
and analogue
- Physical Cell Design and Layout
- Electronic Design Automation
- Digital Design using Hardware
Description Language
System and Package Modeling
High speed IO circuits cannot function
without a sophisticated package and system environment to match.
This leading edge work includes some of the
following activities:
- Creating custom solutions for state of
the art customer designs.
- Developing the electrical models used
to predict real world behavior.
Key design skills in this area include:
- System and package modeling
- Signal integrity analysis
- Flipchip package design
- Electronic Design Automation
Application Specific Design
Complementary to high speed serial
interface design is the development of Layer1/Layer2 networking &
telecoms IP such as multi-gigabit aggregation layers, PCS, XAUI etc.
This is
primarily a digital design function though as speeds increase the
analogue/digital boundary becomes increasingly blurred, requiring a wide
range of design skills.
- Architecture, specification, Verilog/VHDL
design, verification, synthesis, STA, physical layout and ultimately
introduction to production.
- State of the art design tools are
always available as design requirements continue to push the limits of
technology
- Frequently, though not exclusively,
involving the design of hard cores for ease of re-use on very large
customer S.O.C devices
- Designers frequently work closely with
existing or potential customers, offering extensive pre/post sales
team technical support.
- Design of high speed analogue circuits
Chip Create
The
successful deployment of high speed circuits requires a significant amount
of resource dedicated to test chip creation and customer support.
The chip create teams are typically
responsible for:
- Definition, architecture and
specification of high speed device test chips.
- Verilog design, verification,
synthesis, STA and physical layout of test chips.
- Training and support of customer design
centers for the successful deployment of high speed devices.
- Support to enable the successful
deployment of high speed devices into customer systems.
Layout
The design teams are supported by a layout
group with expertise in:
Design for Test
To develop a methodology for testing
Silicon prototypes through to production test, the design for test group
works in the following areas:
- Fault Grading high speed devices, both
Analogue and Digital.
- Creation of a common test interface.
- Development of self test methodologies.
Design Support Group
Supporting the 60+ engineers on the UK
site and also their sister groups in TI Dallas and TI India, the design
support group provides technical support on a large suite of tools:
- Maintenance of cell and transistor
libraries, ClearCase versioning, flow generation and maintenance, new
tool evaluation, vendor support interface and disk, LSF queue and
tool/hardware definitions.
- Expertise in Cadence Skill programming,
ClearCase interfaces and software maintenance and support.
Key design skills throughout the design
groups and design support include:
- Product Definition and Specification
Writing
- High speed analogue design
- Digital Verilog Design
- Logic Synthesis and Timing Analysis
- Physical Layout and floor planning
- Electronic Design Automation
- Software support and evaluation
Career Opportunities
Experienced Engineers and Graduates
We are always keen to hear from engineers
who are already working in the IC/ASIC design arena, whether they have
just a few months' experience or have been in the industry for several
years.
We are also looking for the very best
graduates to join our UK design team to help us continue our exciting
success story. Candidates should hold or expect to obtain a high
classification of degree in a discipline with significant electronics
content or computer science and be able to demonstrate genuine enthusiasm
for a career at the very leading edge of microelectronics design.
The benefits of working for TI UK Design
include:
- A continuously challenging career at
the sharp end of IC design with ongoing training tailored to
individual needs.
- A well established technical ladder -
no 'glass ceilings' for progression for those wanting to pursue a
technical career
- Highly competitive base salary
- Opportunities for world travel
- Healthcare and Life Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Profit sharing scheme
- Stock Purchase Plan
- Flexible renumeration scheme allowing
individuals to customise their personal benefits package to meet their
own needs
- Flexi-time
Our total compensation package aims to be the
best in the UK industry and includes stock based benefits at all levels.
This and our comprehensive relocation scheme reflect our desire to attract
the very best candidates.
Undergraduates
for Industrial Placements
- Students work as an integral member of
a design team
- Assignments are challenging and
rewarding
- Full training and support is
provided
- An excellent opportunity to experience
a high-tech silicon design environment
A placement with Texas Instruments offers the
opportunity for students who complete a successful industrial placement to
receive sponsorship for subsequent years at university. We prefer
placements to be of 12-15 months duration.
We have Placement Opportunities in:
• Analog Circuit Design,
Simulation/Verification and Layout
(e.g. Spice, Cadence tool set, MATLAB, verilog-a)
• Digital Circuit Design, Simulation/Verification and Layout
(e.g. VHDL/Verilog, PERL, Magma)
• Flip-chip Package Design & Modelling
(e.g. Microwave Electromagnetic Theory, HFSS, PakSI-E)
How
To Apply
Please email your CV and a covering
letter to us at ukhr@ti.com quoting
the job reference TIUK_IP09. In your information, please confirm
that you are eligible to work in the UK for the duration of the
placement, and that you are happy to relocate to Northampton for the
placement period. Your CV should also contain details of your
results so far and any anticipated results. The closing date for
applications is 31st March 2009.
Many of the design engineers in the
department started their career as industrial placement students with
TI. Some comments are included below:
"The level
of responsibility we are given at TI, even as students, differentiates TI
from the rest of the companies I could have worked for."
Rahat Mughal, UMIST. One-year placement,
2000-2001.
"An
industrial placement at TI is definitely a must to have exposure to and
gain experience in the semiconductor industry."
Suk-Hui Teh, Cardiff University. One-year
placement, 2000-2001.
"I have
learnt a great deal not only technically but also in terms of personal
development. The experience was definitely worth it"
Kalid Elmufti, City University, London.
One-year placement, 2000-2001.
"TI was very
supportive and provided appropriate training. My senior colleagues were
also always willing to help."
Pulkit Khandelwal, Cardiff University. One
year placement, 2000-2001.
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