Altera® Corporation is the world's pioneer and leader of system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. Altera® combines the reprogrammable logic technology originally invented in 1983 with software tools, intellectual property (IP), and design services to provide high-value programmable solutions to our customers worldwide.
Altera® is headquartered in San Jose, California, and employs approximately 2,600 people in 14 countries.
Our Penang site houses our largest offshore R & D Technical Center and the Asia-Pacific Manufacturing office.
In the Altera® Penang Technical Center, more than 900 engineers currently work on all aspects of R & D including VLSI Design, Layout, Test and Software Development. These graduates from all over the world use state-of-the-art CAD tools to develop multimillion transistors Programmable Logic Devices and associated software. This includes the high-density, Stratix® IV FPGAs, low-cost Cyclone III ™ FPGAs, HardCopy® IV Structured ASICs, low-cost MAX® II CPLDs, Quartus® II Software and extensive IP offering which are Altera's latest products.
For years, Altera® has led the industry by leaps and bounds, simply by building on our competitive edge through our guiding belief - the company that gets to market first is usually the company that wins.
Intellectual Property Engineers (8 vacancies) Overview: Responsible for all product engineering issues from the stage of product development through product delivery to customer. These include supporting device level analysis of customer returned devices.
Department Roles and Responsibilities: In Penang Software Systems Engineering, we are primarily responsible for the development of hardware and software products that target the Embedded Systems and Communications market segment. We develop a complete suite of hardware peripherals for the Nios II embedded processor such as DMA Controllers, UARTs, timers and external memory controllers. We are also responsible for the development of high speed communication cores and interfaces for protocols such as PCI and Ethernet.
We develop software drivers and firmware that accompany hardware products to enable communication between the microprocessor core and peripherals in the end-customers embedded system. We also develop software for system-level design tools and reference designs that tie all these products together to enable customized and rapid system development in Altera’s devices.
Requirements: Masters/ PhD in any of the following field: Microelectronics/ Telecommunications/ DSP/ Image Processing/ Embedded Systems/ related Strong coursework in software engineering, logic design & basic electrical engineering Experience creating logic designs in Verilog/ VHDL Fluency in Perl- and Shell-scripting Experience implementing complex software in C/C++ or Java programming languages a plus Experience with PCI or other high-speed I/O interface standards a plus
We offer an attractive remuneration package, excellent opportunities for career advancement and stock options. Interested candidates graduating in 2008/2009 may submit their resumes to Florence Yong before 30th November 2008 at fyong@altera.com This position is based in Bayan Lepas, Penang.
