In order to strengthen the innovation ecosystem for chip design in Germany and to attract more young people to the important field of semiconductor development and chip design, the DI-OCDCpro project is designing, developing and prototyping a student competition for the construction of chips as a test run. In particular, software-based development with open standards offers outstanding opportunities to inspire new target groups from computer science, the open source communities and other disciplines to develop integrated circuits. The ‘Open Chip Design Challenge Prototype’ (OCDCpro) makes an open source toolchain for the development of 130 nm computer chips available for teaching at German colleges and universities, together with corresponding teaching and learning concepts, material and curricula, and develops a student competition for software-based open source hardware design for advanced semesters (master's and doctoral programmes, post-doc phase) on this basis. In addition to students, the competition is aimed in particular at lecturers at universities of applied sciences and universities in the fields of computer science, microelectronics, electrical engineering and related disciplines. The competition should also be transferable to industrial training concepts in the sense of ‘life-long learning’. The Cyber-Physical Systems group of DFKI will contribute to the open source toolchain with components for the verification of circuits and electronic systems, thus covering the important aspect of the correctness of the systems to be developed.
Partners
- Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) e.V., Berlin
- Hochschule München
- Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik (IHP), Frankfurt (Oder)
- Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Prof. Dr. Christoph Lüth
