This Europractice summer school aims to provide an introduction to the ASIC design and development flow.

This summer school comprehensively covers multiple aspects and is broken up into various detailed topics including theory and concepts. Upon completion of this summer school, attendees will have a general understanding of the ASIC design flow.

The summer school schedule:

• Day 1
  • Introduction to integrated circuits and fabrication of silicon chips. (Speaker: Giuseppe Fiorentino)
  • From ASIC to Product. Introduction to packaging and test: Relationship to design, technical and economic aspects. (Speaker: Hans Manhaeve)

• Day 2
  • Digital Front-end design flow: basic steps (Speaker: Jorgo Tsouhlarakis)
  • Digital physical Implementation foundation flow and low power methodologies (Speaker: Amir Najafi)

• Day 3
  • Analog Design: Introduction to analogue design flow. (Speaker: Florian De Roose)
  • Analog layout: Basics of analog physical layout, analog layout workflow, and failure mechanisms. (Speaker: Eduarda Silveira da Costa Losqui)

• Day 4
  • IP fundamentals. Reasons for design reuse. Key legal and technical prospects and challenges. (Speaker: Paul Zuber)
  • Design for testability: The increasing cost of unfound defects and fault models' overview. (Speaker: Steven Dupont)

• Day 5
  • Integrated circuit production test: role and aspects. (Speaker: Ugo Raia)
  • Integrated circuit Packaging development. (Speaker: Jeroen Schelkens)
  • From classic to advanced packaging and chiplet integration. (Speaker: Sara louahdi)

This course is aimed at students and any other professional not directly working on microelectronics, but with a solid technical background and with a Bachelors or Masters degree (or with equivalent work experience) in Engineering Technology (e.g. engineers, physicists, chemists, etc).