Charles Lucas is a SoC design and pre-silicon IP validation engineer with 12 years of experience delivering RTL, testbenches and validation infrastructure for memory, power-delivery and DFx IPs at Intel. He has driven successful RTL deliveries used across dozens of SoC products, built OVM/SystemVerilog testbenches, automated regression and release flows, and created tools to generate register interfaces from specs. Equally comfortable in RTL design and validation, Charles bridges security, DFx and system integration work—having acted as the liaison between security architects and DFx developers to harden access controls. Based in Portland, he pairs deep hardware debugging and coverage-analysis skills with scripting and tooling that accelerate teams’ throughput. His background in computer forensics and a recent MS in Computer Science (Cybersecurity) give him an uncommon blend of hardware validation expertise and security-focused systems thinking.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Criminal Justice, Software Programming, General, Associates, Criminal Justice, Software Programming, General at Everett Community College
Certification, Computer Forensics, Certification, Computer Forensics at Lake Washington Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Master of Science in Computer Science, Cybersecurity at Portland State University
BS, Computer Systems Engineering Technology, BS, Computer Systems Engineering Technology at Oregon Institute of Technology
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Charles Lucas - SoC Design Engineer - Pre-Silicon IP Validation