Summary
Kota Takamatsu is a Principal IC Design Engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience architecting CPUs, DSPs and SoCs from specification through mass production, currently driving complex IC projects at Broadcom in Mountain View. He has led cross-functional teams and negotiated with vendors and foundries to deliver ultra-low-power audio SoCs for Sony’s Walkman line and state-of-the-art MIPS 64-bit processors for mobile and embedded applications. Skilled across Verilog/SystemC, synthesis, DFT/MBIST, ATPG, STA and formal verification, he has repeatedly improved test coverage and scan performance (e.g., boosting scan coverage to 99.8% with compression). Kota holds two patents in CPU/DSP architecture, a BSEE from Waseda University, and is fluent in English and Japanese—bringing both technical depth and global program management experience to silicon delivery.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Solid State Physics, BSEE Solid State Physics at Waseda University