Strengthening Engineering Curriculum and Opportunities for Undergraduate Students
summary
University of Toronto ASIC Team builds undergraduate pathways to real silicon by using the Free and Open Source Silicon ecosystem and open toolchains like TinyTapeout, LibreLane and Magic. A 25‑student club runs workshops, rewrites ECE labs to replace Sue and Max with X‑cam and open flows, and runs Canada’s first IC hackathon with 200+ applicants and 26 teams. The group achieves actual tapeouts (a toy CPU on Sky25B, Sky130‑compatible flows) and partners with faculty to scale labs into repeatable curricula.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:49University of Toronto ASIC team
- 4:53Team activities and achievements
- 6:18Open-source tools in classrooms
- 8:04Scaling the team
- 9:26Global IC design community
- 10:50Long-term curriculum vision
- 13:16Q&A: Faculty support
- 14:45Q&A: Future resources
- 16:52Q&A: Non-CMOS design spaces
- 18:35Q&A: Open-source tools importance
- 20:18Q&A: Hireability and projects
- 21:23Q&A: Undergraduate tapeout awareness
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