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The Capabilities of Graduates are Not Sufficient
New recruits often lack the skills to “hit the ground running.” According to SIA member companies, many students graduating from colleges and universities with excellent general engineering or computer science skillsets often lack industry specific skills and the broader set of “soft skills” required to work effectively as part of a team in an industry setting.
for Universities
We have chipIgnite shuttles in June and November that are optimized for the University schedule.
These shuttle are scheduled to return silicon back to students in the next session (October and March).
Courses with smaller digital or analog student projects can be aggregated into a single project slot making fabrication very cost effective for larger class sizes.
Access to the foundry technology, chip reference design, EDA tools and design flow are completely open-source.
There are no NDA or other legal agreements required. All content can be downloaded from git repos.
There are no export control restrictions, making it easy to provide access for all your domestic and international students.
No NDAs means you can freely share design files across teams and organizations, including GDS final layout files.
Collaborate with universities freely including sharing projects, course content, joint design or support design competitions.
Leveraging reference designs and automated flows enables students to complete a design in a full chip within the time constraints of a single session.
Single session courses can enable students to complete a focused design goal by leveraging an existing template for a full chip.
...with easy access from our git repo.
Open-source designs enable you to focus the time and effort for design around specific goals.
Reference designs allow students to complete their own full design in a time-limited course session.
The 130nm technology PDK is fully open including standard cell and IO libraries, Spice and timing models and verification decks.
Community open-source IP is available including SRAM macros.
Open-source EDA tools are available for implementing digital and analog designs.
Commercial tools can also be used for implementing the user project areas that will be hosted on the reference chip design.
You get packaged parts and a fully assembled evaluation board with your students’ projects.