UofT ASIC Team - IC Hackathon

IEEE UofT ASIC Team - Introduction

The IEEE UofT ASIC Team is a specialized project team within the IEEE University of Toronto Student Branch, dedicated to giving undergraduate students real, hands-on experience with integrated circuit (IC) design. While most ECE students encounter IC concepts in class, they are rarely given the chance to actually build and fabricate their own chips. The ASIC Team bridges that gap by leveraging open-source tools and the Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) ecosystem, enabling students to design, verify, and tape out real silicon.

This week-long hackathon is centered around taking an idea from concept to hardware-ready design. We want to extend the opportunities for students at the University of Toronto, and this hackathon is a way for us to allow a lot of students to get exposure to tooling that could produce and create real silicon!

Throughout the hackathon participants will prototype digital and/or analog systems and push them through real-world workflows that mirror how chips are built in industry, from writing synthesizable code to running it through a realistic synthesis flow.