News & Events
Apply for SwissChips funding for your IC designs
Would you like to apply for SwissChips support to get your ICs manufactured? If you are currently a researcher at a Swiss university or university of applied science, submit your IC design proposals for a chance to have your IC manufacturing costs covered!
Design your own chip at our Tiny Tapeout workshop in June
Are you interested in learning more about chips and excited about designing your own? We are too! Join us for our Tiny Tapeout workshop, design your own chip, and be part of the first run (planned for September 2025) to have the workshop designs manufactured on a chip. Our workshop is for students, enthusiasts and anyone excited about making their own chip.
David Atienza presented "SwissChips: IC Design for All in Switzerland" at DATE 2025
We were at DATE 2025 and participated in the Panel: Improving Chip Design Enablement for Universities in Europe, which brought together stakeholders of different initiatives from Europe and the USA working towards these goals. The panel explored the critical challenges, opportunities, and potential strategies facing chip design enablement in European academic institutions. David Atienza discussed SwissChips and support for IC design in Switzerland.
Paper on "Scalable and RISC-V Programmable Near-Memory Computing Architectures for Edge Nodes"
Our recent paper proposes a novel, software-friendly, general-purpose, and low-integration-effort Near-Memory Computing (NMC) approach, paving the way for the adoption of CIM- based systems in the next generation of edge computing nodes.
SwissChips at the Swiss Semiconductor Day 2025
We participated in the first Swiss Semiconductor Day on March 7, 2025 at Switzerland's Innovation Park Innovaare. The event brought together 100 leading experts from the Swiss semiconductor industry, creating a unique networking platform to help shape the future of the Swiss semiconductor industry.
Optica Names Prof. Juerg Leuthold the 2025 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Recipient
Optica (formerly OSA), the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in the science of light, awards Prof. Juerg Leuthold the 2025 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize. Prof. Leuthold, head of the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), is honored for pioneering plasmonics based devices and in particular developing broadband modulators and detectors with highest bandwidths.
Adrian M. Ionescu receives the 2024 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award
Congratulations to Prof. Adrian M. Ionescu, SwissChips WP8 co-lead, on receiving the 2024 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award “For leadership and contributions to the field of energy-efficient steep slope devices and technologies.”
Paper on a Near-SRAM Computing Architecture for Edge AI Applications accepted at ISQED 2025
We're excited to share our paper, "Keep All in Memory with Maxwell: a Near-SRAM Computing Architecture for Edge AI Applications" is accepted at ISQED 2025!
Paper on a Novel System Architecture for a Reconfigurable Readout Circuit accepted at ISCAS 2025
Our recent joint-paper, "A Reconfigurable High-Dynamic Range ΔΣ Front-End with Event-Based Decimation for Bandwidth-Efficient Implantable Neural Interfaces” is accepted at ISCAS 2025.
Paper on a Deep-Unfolding-Optimized Massive MIMO Detector accepted by IEEE JSAC
New journal paper accepted at IEEE JSAC!
Paper on Efficient and Physically-Consistent Modeling of Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Structures (REMS)
Paper preprint available online!
EPFL News: SwissChips – coming to the defense of Swiss chip design
The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) is to invest CHF 26 million in the development of chip design, with partners ETHZ, EPFL and CSEM contributing a further CHF 7.8 million. The SwissChips initiative is setting out to defend Switzerland's position as a world leader in this vital technology.
CSEM News: SwissChips Initiative: A boost for the Swiss Chip industry
The SwissChips Initiative, spearheaded by CSEM, EPFL, and ETH Zurich, promises advancements in design and production, catapulting Switzerland to the forefront of the global semiconductor arena. By fostering collaboration between academia and industry, the initiative aims to drive innovation and economic growth. Alain-Serge Porret, Vice-President and Head of Integrated and Wireless Systems at CSEM, explains the latest breakthrough in Swiss chip technology.
New Swiss chip initiative launched
Semiconductor technologies and IC design are vital for Switzerland's science and industry, but global trends like the US, China, India or the EU intensifying domestic production could harm Switzerland's position. Additionally, exclusion from EU programmes limits access to crucial research infrastructure. To counter this, the SwissChips initiative, led by ETH Zurich with its designated head Prof. Christoph Studer, aims to strengthen Swiss research collaborations in IC design and microelectronics.