Summary
Xin Bao is a seasoned CAD and design automation leader with 24+ years shaping front-end SoC flows, now driving global front-end CAD at Google after a long tenure as Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm. He pioneered industry-first flows—RTL partitioning and flop-tray merging—delivering measurable die size reductions and clock-tree power savings across generations of Qualcomm chips. Xin combines hands-on tool and flow development (synthesis, timing, power intent, equivalence checking, ECOs, release automation) with large multi-site team leadership and vendor collaboration to standardize release and QA processes at scale. Based in San Diego and holding an MS in Computer Science from UC Riverside, he is known for turning nuanced EDA innovations into repeatable production practices that cut re-spins and improve global design predictability.
11 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of California, Riverside