Shaping Tomorrow’s Chip Designers: Open-Source Initiatives at IHP
summary
IHP releases two five‑day certificate courses (digital and analog/mixed‑signal) as open‑licensed Git repos, run trial cohorts with daily feedback and module stability after ~100 applicants, and add parasitics and harmonic‑balance modules; the new Open Chip Challenge runs a winter prototype with four university teams on a security by design theme and awards 3 tape-outs using the IHP SG13G2 PDK and open-source EDA toolchains, while MPW runs target €1,000–1,500 per mm² and a claimed one‑day design→fabrication cycle time.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Open-source chip design intro
- 1:44Open-source certificate courses
- 4:34Digital vs analog mixed-signal
- 7:22Open Chip Design Challenge Layer
- 10:55Project details
- 12:40Future plans & Q&A
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