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David Chapman
Bus. Phone: 408.828.6467
Mobile: 408.828.6467
CNSV Director
IEEE Senior Member

Electronic Design Automation software development; expert witness - GDS/OASIS data file review

P.O. Box 36067
San Jose, CA 95158

David has been a Director since 2020. He was CNSV Chair in 2018-2019, Vice Chair in 2017, Treasurer in 2015-2016, and an At-Large Director in 2014.

He is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software developer who has written more than 1 million lines of code. He has experience in: VLSI physical design and verification (placement, routing, design rule checking, circuit extraction, mask data preparation, scribe line generation); logic synthesis; physical synthesis; circuit design and analysis (SPICE automation, timing analysis, library generation); Intellectual Property (IP) analysis and tracking.

He also is an expert witness specializing in analysis of GDS/GDSII/OASIS data files for evidence of patent infringement or IP misuse.



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