General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
2023-27940
Division description
The CEA's technological research department (DRT) has a portfolio of technologies in the fields of information and communication, energy and health. As an interface between research and industry, our mission is to develop and transfer technologies, from theoretical proof of concept to industrial demonstrators, for the benefit of industry.
CEA List, a research laboratory specializing in intelligent digital systems, is located in the heart of the Paris-Saclay science and technology cluster.
Description de l'unité
Within the CEA List, the mission of the Design Environment and Architecture Laboratory (LECA) is to design innovative and flexible computing architectures that meet the challenges of performance, cost, energy consumption, safety and security, particularly for critical embedded systems and accelerators for embedded AI. To reduce the development time and improve the quality of these architectures, the laboratory develops cutting-edge approaches for innovative design tools and methods.
Position description
Category
Electronics components and equipments
Contract
Fixed-term contract
Job title
Research engineer in FPGA design
Socio-professional category
Executive
Contract duration (months)
36
Job description
As part of a multidisciplinary technology research team of experts in hardware IP design and design tools, you will be involved in a European research project aimed at designing a secure and privacy-friendly IoT hardware architecture. Your main tasks will be:
- The integration of hardware IPs (Intellectual Property) integration in a SoC (System On Chip) composed of RISC-V processor, DDR, peripherals, ...
- The development of software in C for a RISC-V processor;
- The functional validation and implementation on FPGA;
- The development of scripts to automate the hardware IPs integration.
In the exercise of your role, you will also be involved in:
- Communicating during various exchanges within the research project;
- Participating in the scientific dissemination of the team's research results (contributions to publications in international conferences) and in the valorization of our innovations (writing patents).
To successfully fulfill your mission, you will benefit from a first class environment at CEA LIST with access to a large number of design tools and hardware platforms for FPGA design.
Applicant Profile
You have a Master's degree or PhD in computer science or equivalent
You have experience in FPGA design.
You have acquired the following technical skills:
- Experience with RTL description languages: VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog
- Knowledge of FPGA design tool (Vivado) and simulation tools (Modelsim, VCS, ...)
- Experience in Python programming language
- Experience in C or C++ programming language
- Ability to work with the Linux environment.
Additional qualifications desired :
- Knowledge of digital electronic architecture (processors, Caches, NoC, ...)
- Knowledge of Linux kernel development
Experience in other scripting languages (bash, tcl, ...)
Position location
Site
Saclay
Job location
France, Ile-de-France
Location
palaiseau
Requester
Position start date
02/10/2023
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