At DATE 24 we launched the “Understanding Our World” SoC design contest for 2024/25 and we are pleased to return to DATE to delivery the workshop  "SoC Labs: The academic community for System on Chip Development"  where we will present prior projects from around the world and the progress they have made to taping out their SoC designs. For the year ahead we are pleased to announce an new contest.

Background:

In association with CMC Microsystems and Arm we are extending our 'Understanding Our World' design contest specifically supporting institutions from Canada and the America's with support for their projects, conference attendance and financial help with silicon tape out. 

The Forum was hosted by Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute ("TSRI"), Interuniversity Microelectonics Centre ("imec") and Europractice. One of the main themes throughout the Forum was the need for us all to collaborate, especially between the semiconductor industry and academia, and something we activity promote here at SoC Labs. The presentations and attendees from both communities was very impressive and hopefully will lead to a lot of innovative collaborations.

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

Tomorrow sees the start of the 37th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC) in Dresden. Last night saw the legendary Kraftwerk play live in the city. I am not sure if the organisers of the conference arranged that but they have certainly been very helpful in supporting a a Special Session for SoC Labs on Thursday. 

In association with CMC Microsystems we are holding an on-line workshop. The workshop will outline how the broad range of IP made freely by Arm Academic Access combined with academic-focused reusable reference designs and tape out flows (being developed by the SoC Labs academic community) are making System on Chip projects easier to undertake by individual students and larger academic teams. 

Five projects from SoC Labs presented their work in a Special Session at the 36th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC) in Santa Clara in the heart of Silicon Valley. It was nice to see teams from across the world come together and share not only their own work but collaborate on shared interest in Arm based SoC designs. Both the Hardware track, with a focus on novel hardware design solutions, and the Education track, where development of skills and experience in SoC design and collaboration where the more important aspect, were represented.