NSF program directors will host a webinar about the NSF program solicitation 24-522 (Enabling Access to the Semiconductor Chip Ecosystem for Design, Fabrication, and Training (Chip Design Hub) on January 22nd, 12:3—2PM ET.
The Chip Design Hub program aims to (i) dramatically lower the barriers to accessing state-of-the-art electronic design automation (EDA) tools, process design kits (PDKs), and design intellectual property (IP) cores for students and academic researchers, and (ii) enable students at various levels to design IC chips. The solicitation specifically seeks proposals to establish and manage a community infrastructure that supports the entire IC chip design process beginning from behavior/structural description at the Register Transfer Level (RTL) or above to GDSII fabrication mask file generation.
