David Vandenbout is an experienced electronics engineer and entrepreneur with a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering and over three decades of industry and academic work spanning Bell Labs, NC State's ECE faculty, and founding XESS Corp. He specializes in digital and analog circuit design, FPGAs, embedded systems, and neural-network/AI applications, marrying deep hardware expertise with practical software tooling. As owner of XESS for 21 years he brought products and services to market, and continues to support customers via maintained open-source repositories such as SKiDL, a Python extension for electronic circuit design to which he contributed XSPICE integration and significant refactoring. Based in Apex, NC, he blends research-grade rigor with hands-on development and a knack for sustaining legacy systems and community-facing engineering assets.
SKiDL is a module that extends Python with the ability to design electronic circuits.
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:35 commits, 32 PRs, 302 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Xesscorp primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the SKiDL Python module for electronic circuit design. Their work included adding new contributors, merging branches, and modifying documentation related to the API. They also made significant changes to the code, implementing XSPICE capabilities for SPICE simulations and setting unconnected XSPICE ports to NULL. Furthermore, the user refactored code, improved formatting, and restructured logging functions to enhance the module's functionality and maintainability.
Contributions:83 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 3 months
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