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Noah Beck

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Princeton, MA 01541
(978) 464-5174
noah.b.beck@gmail.com
Preferred locations: greater Boston (west and north), greater Worcester, southwest Ohio

Summary

Multiprocessor SOC architecture, design, and verification. Experienced as a technical lead working with teams in multiple geographies and multiple disciplines.

Experience

• AMD64 Design Engineer, 2004 - Present
  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Boxboro, MA
  • Current role: SOC Architect for AMD's next generation server processor, including writing microarchitectural specifications, identifying die requirements for support of multiple packages and platforms, and making chip-level power and frequency estimates
  • Previous roles:
    • SOC Co-Architect for AMD's first ARM-based server product, including detailed AMBA interconnect specification for integrated IPs
    • SOC Architect for the 2nd generation Bulldozer-based server processor
    • RTL lead for the first Bulldozer-based server processor, including writing new infrastructure to support the hardware emulation team, coordinating feature enablement across sub-IPs, and owning the toplevel RTL
    • RTL lead for 45nm dual- and quad-core derivative products, including running the feature approval process
    • Design verification lead for optimization of AMD64 dual- and quad-core silicon including scan dump analysis, functional issue debug, and speed path isolation
    • Full chip verification debug lead for multiple AMD64 designs (K8F, K8G), including supporting the bring-up process on ATE for 65nm processor first silicon
• UltraSPARC V Verification Engineer, 1999 - 2004
  Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA
  • Full chip verification of RTL and gate level models of the UltraSPARC V microprocessor.
  • Unit-level functional and performance verification of the instruction fetch block.
  • Development and support of verification infrastructure, test benches, and random stimulus using verilog, C, perl, and shell scripts.

Skills

• Microprocessor microarchitecture: RTL design, Hardware Verification
• Programming Languages: Perl, C, C++, Verilog, MySQL
• Assembly Language: X86, SPARC
• Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris
• Shell Scripting: bash, ksh

Education

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (thesis, computer area), 1999
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, 1997

Interests

Interests: In my free time, I enjoy gardening and photography.