VHDL Design Engineer

Job Title: VHDL Design Engineer

Location: Cheltenham

Duration: 6 months

Job type: Contract

A VHDL Design Engineer required for a leading Aviation company based in Cheltenham.

Responsibilities:

* Authoring of FPGA/ASIC requirements to internal development processes for the certification of Airborne Hardware.

* Authoring of FPGA/ASIC conceptual design documentation

* Development of VHDL code against a set of requirements to an agreed coding standard.

* Create trace Matrix linking design requirements to low level VHDL code

* Running of RTL and gate level simulations on FPGA designs and documenting results in a formal test report document.

* Analysis of FPGA/ASIC design test results and identifying areas of non-compliance to design specification.

* Liaise closely with other FPGA/ASIC design engineers to develop design changes to correct any identified issues.

* Perform Elemental Analysis of VHDL code and create test solutions or justifications to give 100% test code coverage.

* Perform VHDL code scrutiny against internal coding standard.

* Assist in the generation of design Hardware Accomplish Summary for presentation to applicable certification authority.

Skills and Knowledge

* Extensive experience of design and verification of complex FPGA/ASOC designs using VHDL

* Experience of generation requirements based test cases and creating traceability reports

* Familiarity with self-checking test benches

* Knowledge of DO-254 design guidelines

* Full ASIC/FPGA life cycle from planning through to production transition

For further information please contact Melissa.