Kurt Takara

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Kurt Takara is a product engineer at Siemens EDA and specializes in assertion-based verification methods and applications, including formal and clock-domain crossing (CDC) verification. He has over 20 years of experience in engineering design and verification, technical marketing and engineering services. Takara has held engineering, marketing, consulting services and project management roles in electronics and EDA companies such as Synopsys, Ikos Systems, Raytheon, and Magnavox. He holds a BSEE from Purdue University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

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An Integrated Approach To Power Domain And CDC Verification

By Kurt Takara - 11 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Reducing power consumption is essential for both mobile and data center applications. Yet it is a challenge to lower power while minimally impacting performance. The solution has been to partition designs into multiple power domains which allow selectively reducing voltage levels or powering off partitions. Traditional low power verification validates only the functional correctness of power... » read more

Four Steps To Resolving Reset Domain Crossing Data-Corruption In Automotive SoCs

By Kurt Takara - 04 Feb, 2021 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Takara (Siemens EDA), Ankush Sethi (NXP), and Aniruddha Gupta (NXP) Modern automotive SoCs typically contain multiple asynchronous reset signals to ensure systematic functional recovery from unexpected situations and faults. This complex reset architecture leads to a new set of problems such as possible reset domain crossing (RDC) issues. Conventional clock domain crossing (CDC) veri... » read more