Noah Beck Home: Princeton, MA 01851 (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: In my free time, I enjoy gardening and photography.