Title :
CAD tool support for a multi-university SoC certificate program: The Digital Sandbox
Author :
Kroll, Tom ; Schmit, Herman ; Landis, Dave
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse is sponsoring an educational support program to facilitate student IC design projects and laboratories at Carnegie Mellon University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Students who have access to industry standard IC design tools that are integrated in a commercial design flow will be better prepared to enter the workforce. However, these capabilities are expensive to support and not generally available within Universities. The "Digital Sandbox" program described in this paper is facilitating education by providing and supporting modern VLSI/SoC CAD tools and industry standard design libraries.
Keywords :
VLSI; educational courses; educational institutions; integrated circuit design; logic CAD; software tools; system-on-chip; Carnegie Mellon university; IC design laboratories; IC design projects; Pennsylvania state university; Pittsburgh digital greenhouse; VLSI/SoC CAD tool support; computer-aided design; digital Sandbox; educational support program; industry standard IC design tools; multiuniversity SoC certificate program; university of Pittsburgh; very large scale integrated circuits; Application specific integrated circuits; Collaboration; Continuing education; Design automation; Digital integrated circuits; Educational programs; Signal design; Software libraries; System-on-a-chip; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronic Systems Education, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1973-3
DOI :
10.1109/MSE.2003.1205249
