Yatharth Kochar
Principal Verification Engineer
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYatharth Kochar is a Principal Verification Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in pre- and post-silicon validation and CPU-level errata work. He has progressed through senior engineering and staff roles at Arm and Qualcomm, bringing deep expertise in low-level system initialization and processor-specific workarounds. His contributions to the widely used ARM Trusted Firmware project include implementing reset-handler support and Cortex-A57 errata mitigations, highlighting hands-on firmware and bootflow proficiency. Based in the United States, he combines embedded-systems training with a track record across semiconductor and FPGA firms, making him adept at translating silicon quirks into robust validation strategies. Notably, his background bridges both software and hardware domains, allowing him to lead teams that close the loop between silicon behavior and production-ready firmware.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Balaghat English SchoolDESD, Embedded Systems, DESD, Embedded Systems at CDAC HyderabadElectronics Engineering, Electronics Engineering at Shivaji University
Github Skills (21)
bootloader10
assembly10
architecture10
firmware10
c1110
c1710
initialization10
initializer10
u-boot10
assemble10
assembler10
boot10
loader10
arm10
initialize10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
Nov 2014 - Nov 2016
Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Yatharth's contributions primarily focused on adding support for calling reset handlers within the BL3-1 image to apply workarounds for CPU errata. They modified several source files to integrate reset handler functionality. The changes involve adding a new constant to indicate the first call to the reset handler and implementing errata workarounds specific to the Cortex-A57 processor. This work demonstrates a deep understanding of low-level system initialization, boot processes, and processor-specific issues.
trustedread-onlyfirmwareembedded
yatharth-arm/arm-trusted-firmware
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 push, 20 branches in 1 year
trustedarmfirmwarearm-trusted-firmware
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