Summary
Akash Goel is a Principal Solution Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience in SoC pre-silicon (FPGA/Palladium) and post-silicon validation, embedded driver development, and hardware-software debug for complex semiconductor designs. He has led validation and performance verification efforts at major firms including Synopsys, Intel, NXP/Freescale and STMicro, architecting verification strategies and building tooling that bridges RTL, emulation and silicon domains. His specialty areas include communication IPs (SD-MMC, CAN, USB-OTG, I2C), device driver design, boot/security firmware validation, and developing testbenches and infrastructure for full-chip validation. Known for moving fluidly between projects and assimilating new technologies, he combines low-level C driver expertise with system-level performance verification and debug. Based in Uttar Pradesh, India, he blends practical lab bench investigation with automated validation flows—often authoring the very tools that accelerate root-cause analysis. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous hardware issues into reproducible, testable software solutions across the product lifecycle.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
K.N.M.I.E.T
T.R.M.P.S
DESD, DESD at C-Dac