Academia-industry collaboration in SoC design education: wishes and reality

The complexity of IC has been growing each year, now reaching nano-scale design rule and over billion transistors on a chip. To develop advanced SoCs, huge amount and high quality of resources and research activities are necessary for design as well as for technology development. It is getting even more vital to recruit well-trained students, who can lead the global competition. Industry is also expecting for universities to help raise probability of success of SoCs, the market of which is even more limited in time-to-market and product life in spite of the huge investment. These are the major motivations, for which SoC industry wishes to share resources and risk with universities. Industry has even established consortiums to improve and activate the relationship with universities toward these goals. In this panel, views from universities and industry are discussed and analyzed to explore successful collaboration.