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Principal Datacenter SoC Architect
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Intel Corporation
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Principal Datacenter SoC Architect
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Santa Clara, California, United States
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Muhammad Ahmed is listed as Principal Datacenter SoC Architect at Intel Corporation, based in Santa Clara, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Muhammad Ahmed.
Muhammad Ahmed previously worked as Director of System & SoC Architecture at Sima.Ai and Principal SoC Architect at Sifive.
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-- 20+ years of hands on high speed logic, ASIC and microprocessor design experience.-- Held management and technical lead positions mentoring junior engineers in ASIC, SOC, microprocessor and DSP processor design teams for over 10 years.-- Technical lead at a startup designing high performance SOC for use in video encoders & decoders. Worked on multithreaded DSP array processor and SOC using this processor.-- Technical lead/principal architect of high performance multithreaded DSP processor at Qualcomm. Part of team that developed high performance ARM v7 compliant microprocessor for Qualcomm. Senior member of team that developed Snapdragon platform for Qualcomm. Snapdragon is a highly complex SOC that uses both multithreaded DSP and ARM processor and is designed for high end wireless market.-- Worked on different parts of CELL processor architecture and implementation. CELL processor is used in Playstation3 and a version of CELL is used in XBox360.-- Worked on multiple high performance MIPS microprocessors like R5900, Vr5432 and several versions of Vr43XX family of microprocessors.-- Worked on micro architecture design and implementation of ARM V4T and V6 ISA based microprocessors. -- Worked on several ASIC and SOC designs at semiconductor and system companies.-- Intimately familiar with all aspects of microprocessor/ASIC/SOC design starting from specification development, micro architecture design, pipeline design, logic/RTL design, timing analysis, logic verification at RTL and gate level, timing closure, standard cell library & memory compiler selection, interfacing with circuit and physical design teams, working with the foundry on yield & speed enhancements.-- Intimately familiar with low power design challenges and design challenges in deep sub-micron process technologies.-- Patents granted:9. Patents filed:16
Listed skills include Asic, Verilog, Soc, Processors, and 19 others.
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14 roles · 37 years
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Director Of System & Soc Architecture
Architecture development of SoC designed for AI inference on the edge
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Principal Soc Architect
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Sr. Principal Platform Architect
Architecture design and development of SoC using ARM M4 and micro DSP for use in wearable and handset.
2015 - Jul 2019
Principal Soc/System Architect
Responsible for developing SoC architecture using ARM v8 microprocessor and Ceva XC4500 DSP.
2013 - 2014
~1 yr
Senior Soc/System Architect
Worked on system architecture definition of microprocessor compatible with ARM v7 and v8 architecture.
2011 - 2013
~2 yrs
Principal Engineer/Soc Architect
Altera
Architecture design and specification of debug solution for a dual ARM Cortex A9 based SoC with tightly integrated FPGA. Supplemented CoreSight infrastructure with additional hardware to support FPGA users
2011 - 2011
Senior Soc Architect
Worked on architecture and micro-architecture of baseband SoC for GUL (GSM/UMTS/LTE) base station. This SoC contains multiple DSPs for dataplane processing, RISC processors for control plane processing, hardware accelerators and other IP blocks. Complex hierarchical interconnects are used to connect different parts of this SoC. Advisory engineer to Huawei handset group designing SoC built around dual core ARM Cortex A9 for use in smart phones and tablets.
2009 - 2010
~1 yr
Architect/Principal Engineer
Defined architecture and micro-architecture of a vectorizable variable length VLIW DSP array processor targeted for use in video processing. Responsibilities included ISA design, pipeline design, design of controller that manages DSP array, etc. Implemented instruction steering and VLIW packetization logic in verilog. Worked on SOC definition using this DSP array including interconnect fabric selection, configuration of fabric for use in SOC, DRAM controller, etc.
2006 - 2009
~3 yrs
Principal Engineer
Principal architect of Qualcomm's next generation Interleaved Multithreaded (IMT) DSP processor. Technical lead and manager of a small team that developed pipeline, micro-architecture and cycle accurate simulator of this processor. Member of team that developed instruction set architecture for this processor. Technical lead of the logic design team that implemented micro-architecture. Designed and implemented memory management unit used in this processor. Worked very closely with different firmware and software groups within Qualcomm who were either using or planning to use this processor. Part of the team that integrated this DSP and its associated subsystem that includes several peripherals into a very large SOC that contains multiple processors. Total SOC gate count is in excess of 35M gates. Prior to this assignment, I worked at Qualcomm Research Triangle Park design center. There I was part of the team that developed a superscalar, out-of-order microprocessor compatible with ARM V7 ISA.
2003 - 2006
~3 yrs
2000 - 2003
~3 yrs
1997 - 2000
~3 yrs
Sr. Staff Design Engineer
Member of team that developed R5900, MIPS compatible processor used in Emotion Engine used in PlayStation2
1995 - 1997
~2 yrs
Member Of Technical Staff
First Pacific Networks
1990 - 1995
~5 yrs
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Muhammad Ahmed works for Intel Corporation.
What is Muhammad Ahmed's role at Intel Corporation?
Muhammad Ahmed is listed as Principal Datacenter SoC Architect at Intel Corporation.
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Muhammad Ahmed is based in Santa Clara, California, United States while working with Intel Corporation.
What companies has Muhammad Ahmed worked for?
Muhammad Ahmed has worked for Intel Corporation, Sima.Ai, Sifive, Quicklogic, and Boeing.
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Muhammad Ahmed is listed with skills including Asic, Verilog, Soc, Processors, Digital Signal Processors, Arm, Semiconductors, and Functional Verification.
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