Primary Job Title Co-Founder, Chief Scientist & Chief Architect Primary Organization Cornami
Location Menlo Park, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Furtek has broad experience in both hardware and software development with special expertise in multicore processors and functional verification tools and methods. He was among the pioneers in the area of formal verification (The MITRE Corporation and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory), and it was at these two companies that Dr. Furtek began a
long-term project to develop groundbreaking tools for full functional verification of digital systems.
During breaks in this effort, Dr. Furtek founded a field-programmable-gate-array company (Concurrent Logic) whose technology has been licensed to Apple Computer, National Semiconductor and IBM and which was ultimately acquired by Atmel Corporation. He has also led pioneering efforts to develop new computing platforms based on reconfigurable, multicore architectures unrivaled in price/performance and energy efficiency (Interval Research, QuickSilver Technology and Rapport, Inc.).
At CORNAMI, this 30+ years of experience has provided the foundation for Dr. Furtek’s most recent accomplishment: solving the multicore programming problem, which has bedeviled computer science for the past 50 years.
Dr. Furtek holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s and doctorate in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has 30 issued U.S. patents.
