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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

Objective

VLSI verification and design, specializing in microprocessors

Experience

• AMD64 Verification and Design Engineer, July 2004 - Present
  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Boxboro, MA
  • Work with customers, implementation teams, and verification teams in multiple geographies to determine features to include in future production tapeouts of multiple AMD64 product lines
  • Provide design input and functional ATE patterns for debug of silicon issues related to both functional problems and speed path isolation
  • Assisted bring-up effort of the first 65nm AMD64 product silicon on ATE
  • Led debug of fullchip regression failures for multiple AMD64 product lines
• UltraSPARC V Verification Engineer, June 1999 - May 2004
  Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA
  • Verified instruction fetch unit (IFU) predictors
    • Developed shadow models and checkers in C++ and PLI for six predictors functioning in all strand modes
    • Wrote a random assembly test generator in perl capable of placing exhaustive instruction combinations in fetch bundles.
    • Filed bugs while writing and filling coverage terms for corner cases
  • Led a team of ten engineers to complete final gate validation of all processor features on an abstracted verilog model
  • Developed and supported project infrastructure (perl and shell scripts)
    • Archive and extract stimulus required to reproduce model failures
    • Detect and automatically regress IFU environment changes
    • Scripts to implement configuration management methodology
• Verification Engineer Intern, May - August 1997
  Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
  Implemented test cases exercising boundary conditions for the trace delivery engine cluster of the Willamette (Pentium 4). Was responsible for reporting bugs and extending the test coverage.
• Co-op Engineer, 4 semesters from August 1994 - August 1996
  Siemens Stromberg-Carlson, Boca Raton, FL
  Assisted in the development of an automated system for deploying and installing software patches directly into customers' sites. Automated the creation of a knowledge base from existing flowchart documentation.

Skills

C, C++, perl, Lisp, assembly languages, NC Verilog, VCS, PLI, SQL (Oracle and MySQL), shell scripts (bash/ksh/csh), ClearCase, TCP/IP, Unix (Linux/Solaris/IRIX), and Windows NT

Education

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (thesis, computer area)
  January 1998 to May 1999
  GPA: 3.67/4.0
• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science
  August 1992 to December 1997
  GPA: 3.75/4.0

Interests

In my free time, I also enjoy bicycling, hiking, photography, and experimentation with Linux.