Summary
Yuxun Qiu is an R&D/Staff Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in EDA software and digital IC physical implementation, currently driving research and development at Synopsys in San Jose. He has deep hands-on expertise across physical synthesis, floorplanning, placement, routing, STA and closure, and has built symbolic simulation and SystemVerilog language support and performance improvements for commercial tools. Prior work includes delivering FD-SOI multi-body-bias design flows and achieving measurable area and timing gains on Cortex-A9 blocks while validating complex foundry features at Cadence. Equally comfortable in software and hardware domains, he contributed to open-source LGraph integration with ABC during his graduate research, reflecting a practical bent for tooling and automation. Active in the semiconductor community, he serves on the board of CASPA helping run events and outreach, blending technical depth with ecosystem engagement.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese, English