Summary
Chaofan Li is a senior software R&D engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in FPGA synthesis, logic synthesis and technology mapping for EDA tools. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M and has contributed to industry-leading products at Synopsys, working on Design Compiler, Fusion Compiler and datapath synthesis. Currently based in Nanjing, he’s focused on FPGA synthesis at 芯华章科技, bringing deep C/C++ implementation skills and practical experience modeling complex standard cells and clock-tree synthesis. His research background in high-level synthesis, approximate computing and dynamic voltage scaling informs a pragmatic approach to performance/power trade-offs in hardware-aware software. Colleagues know him for bridging academic rigor with production-grade tooling, often turning theoretical ideas from his PhD into robust EDA features. He blends low-level algorithmic thinking with a proven track record shipping commercial synthesis capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electronics & Information Science & Technology, BS, Electronics & Information Science & Technology at Nanjing University
PhD, Computer Engineering, PhD, Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
English, Chinese