Welcome to KIT CHIPDESIGN HOUSE
Our Goals and Vision
Our primary goal is to enhance chip design education by integrating industry feedback and providing specialized training for professionals pursuing PhDs or careers in the semiconductor industry. By fostering a strong connection between academia and industry, we aim to build a collaborative network where experts from both fields can exchange knowledge, insights, and resources. This collaboration will help bridge the gap between theoretical research and practical applications, ensuring that advancements in chip design are both innovative and industry-relevant. To achieve this, we organize research projects that bring together academic researchers and industry investigators, creating an environment where cutting-edge ideas can be explored and implemented.
Our broader vision is to establish Baden-Württemberg as a hub for chip design and synthesis, leveraging the region’s expertise in microelectronics. With Dresden serving as the key manufacturing site, the chips designed and developed in Germany will be produced at the highest standards and then distributed for use worldwide. By strengthening the semiconductor ecosystem in Germany, we aim to contribute to technological innovation, economic growth, and global competitiveness, ensuring that the region remains at the forefront of chip design and manufacturing in an increasingly digital world.
KCH staff will organize a soldering workshop at the KIT Campustag. In this workshop, school students assemble a NAND-based half-adder PCB, where multiple such PCBs can then be connected to form full-adders and N-Bit adders. Apart from the soldering exercise, we will use this example to explain how to design digital circuits and turn those into a NAND-based representation, and why you would want to do that.
More Information on the Campustag Website
KCH staff will present first projects at a booth at the „Markt der Möglichkeiten“ on the #skills4chips conference. We will present our general vision and two educational projects in early stages: A system of modular NAND-based half-adder PCBs to introduce students to digital logic and our Tiny Tapeout audio synthesizer demo, which will be the base for a compact chip design workshop. We're looking forward to hearing your vision and ideas for chip design in Germany, so please drop by and say hi!
More Information on the #skills4chips Website
On March 17, 2025, the first conference “Skilled Workers for Microelectronics” (#skills4chips) took place at the WISTA Event Center in Berlin. Organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the event was held under the motto “How Germany can score points as a location for innovation through the interplay of research and education”.
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