UW CS/EE Postdoc Position

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University of Washington, CS & EE Department
Location: Seattle, CA

Postdoctoral positions are available immediately to join the productive Bespoke Silicon Group
(BSG) at the University of Washington (http://darksilicon.net ).
BSG Leader Professor Michael Taylor received his PhD at MIT and was lead architect of the
16-core MIT Raw tiled multicore processor​ , one of the earliest multicore processors, which
predates Intel’s multicore chips. He co-authored the earliest published research on ​ dark silicon​ .
More recently, Taylor wrote ​ the first academic paper on Bitcoin mining chips​ .
In last two years, our team have published paper in ISCA’16, ASPLOS’17, Hotchips’17 and
IEEE MICRO’17. Our research focuses on manycore (kilo-core) and ASIC Could. We proposed
neural network ASIC Clouds before Google announced their TPU.
Our team is tapeout driven. We made 3 tapeouts in 2017, including the 511-core RISC-V
compatible Celerity chip, in TSMC 16nm technology. It executes 500 Billion RISC-V instructions
per second, using 25 mm^2 of silicon, and is the most powerful RISC-V chip ever created.

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The postdoc position is to support the 4-year open source microprocessor project, which will
tapeout a multi-core RISC-V 64G processor with open source EDA tools.
A PhD in CS or EE disciplines is required. Previous training and experiences in the following
research areas are prefered:
- Microprocessor tapeout experience is a huge plus.
- Microprocessor pipeline design, verification and optimization experience.
- On-chip memory system (cache, atomic memory operation) design & verification
experience.
- Strong microprocessor verification experience (verification environment building, test
generation, coverage analysis).
- Strong physical design experience (STA, P&R, CTS, LVS, DRC, Formality, SI etc).
- Open source project experience, clean SystemVerilog coding style.
- Top tier publications.

Please send CV, personal statement to Shaolin Xie (shawnless.xie@gmail.com).