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SSCS PICO Chronicles: News from the Open
Source Commuity
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The IEEE SSCS PICO Open-Source
Chipathon 2023 has been launched! As
of March 2023, there are currently 12
groups from seven countries (Egypt,
Japan, Colombia, Pakistan, South
Korea, Brazil, and Chile) working on
chip design. The central theme of
this project is " Working Toward the
Lab Bench on a Chip " design. Three
organized international design teams
across 12 groups have teamed up to
realize a loop-back test chip using the
GlobalFoundries 180MCU Open-PDK.
This is a new direction for the open
source community to explore the
possibility of chip design by connecting
open source enthusiasts across
different continents.
The philosophy behind this project
is to maintain an open ecosystem that
allows everyone to appreciate chip design.
Participants do not need to fully
complete the system, but they can design
a number of reusable blocks and
relish this opportunity with teamwork
(Figure 1). The community appreciates
sharing ideas with different engineers
from different continents, all on one
common design platform. For more
information, please visit https://sscs.
ieee.org/about/tc-ose/sscs-pico-design
-contest.
Join our vibrant community of chip
design enthusiasts at SSCS-TC-OSE@
ieee.org! Collaborate with engineers
from around the world to design reusable
blocks and grow the open source
IC design ecosystem.
Exciting Events Held at the
VLSI 2023 Symposium
in Kyoto, Japan
The Symposium on VLSI Technology
and Circuits was held in Kyoto,
Japan, in June 2023. As in other parts
of the world, Japan, the host country
of the symposium, is actively
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2023.3315888
Date of current version: 14 November 2023
FIGURE 2: A snapshot of the Code-a-Chip winners with Dr. John R. Long, SSCS president (right).
engaged in activities to promote the
SSCS PICO program.
Ceremony of " Code-a-Chip "
Travel Grant Awards
The ceremony for the three " Codea-Chip "
winners Zonghao (Chris) Li
(Ph.D. candidate at the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto, Canada);
Vicente Osorio (undergraduate
student at the Universidad Técnica
Federico Santa María, Chile); and
HyungJoo Park (B.S. degree in electronics
and telecommunications
engineering at Hanyang University,
South Korea) was held at the conference
venue (Figure 2). The winners
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Korea Egypt Pakistan1
Pakistan5
DAC
Cond MUX
CLK
Pakistan2
Pakistan6
Japan
ADC Cond MUX
SUP
REF
Pakistan4 Japan
Colombia Chile2
Pakistan3
FIGURE 1: The block allocations of the Chipathon 2023 participants.
Chile1
Brazil
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