DI-OCDCpro
Open-Source Chip Design Infrastructure as a Learning and Competition Platform for Students and Young Talents
DI-OCDCpro builds an open-source chip design infrastructure serving as a learning and competition platform for students and young talents, combining hands-on chip design experience with competitive educational formats.
Objectives and Approach
The goal is to develop and pilot a student competition in the field of open-source chip design. A fully open-source toolchain including EDA software and PDK based on 130-nm SiGe-BiCMOS technology is prepared and extended with formal verification of security properties. Chips produced during the competition are commissioned and evaluated by the students themselves.
Innovations and Perspectives
The piloted competition is to be institutionalized with industry support, targeting annual competitions with 50 to 100 teams on changing hardware topics. The competition improves training quality in chip design, increases motivation, and narrows the skills gap in microelectronics.
Project Coordinator
- Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Bonn
Project Partners
- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Kaiserslautern
- Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München
- IHP GmbH – Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt/Oder
- Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
This project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) as part of the Design Initiative Microelectronics.
