Design contest for a Chiplet based SOC for 2025

Monday 16th September at 2024 IEEE 37th International System-on-Chip Conference saw the announcement of a new design contest for creation of an academic Chiplet based disaggregated SOC using the ARM ecosystem. 

Rewards/ Prizes: 

SoC Labs will arrange for the winning design:

• funding toward die fabrication costs for custom chiplets

• fabrication of a custom interposer/package

• design support during the year

• subsidies for travel to the conference  

Where rewards or prizes are given, they will be for the best project as determined by the organizers.  

Eligibility Criteria:

Only Arm processor-based designs will be considered.  The Arm Academic Access (AAA) program is open and ready to receive applications from universities and research institutes to provide access a suite of Arm IP to empower your work on Arm. 

The contest is open to research groups with members working within a university/research institution or individual academics involved in SoC Design teaching. Research groups applications can also be from postgraduate students, but applications from postgrads should be supported by a senior member of staff in the same institute who is supervising them. Multiple applications from the same institution can be submitted and supervisors can support more than one postgrad student. 

Important Dates:

Competition opens: September 2024

The winning design will be presented at 2025 IEEE 38th International System-on-Chip Conference

Entry submission and applying: 

Entry will be via this site. Submissions take the form of a project summary of no more than 350 words, written in English. You should consider adding any technology or design flow steps to the project.

You will need to sign up to SoC Labs as described on the home page. 

When you are logged in, a Project summary should be submitted via the ‘My Contributions’ tab and dropdown at the top right.  You need to use the ‘Add Competition Project - Chiplets’ action.  

Or alternatively use this link to create an entry; 

IP statement:

Teams are encouraged to share their designs where relevant. The default position is that third parties should be able to recreate the outcomes of any projects submitted to the competition.  If there is some aspect of your design that is sensitive, you may submit details of the method rather than the IP block details itself. Any IP statements and conditions of use should be made clear.

More details: 

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