Tiny Tapeout Workshop
Are you excited about designing your own chip and having it made and delivered to you? We are too! Join us for our external page 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 and enthusiasts and really anyone excited about making their own chip.
If you're a high school student interested in designing and making your own chip we encourage you to sign up and tell your teacher about us. If you're in Zurich, nearby, or even further away but can travel to Zurich for the afternoon, we'd be glad to save a seat for you and your classmates!
Overview:
The workshop is open to everyone – high school students, enthusiasts and anyone interested in designing their own chip. We’ll be making a collective design (with open-source tools) that will be manufactured on one chip, and together with IHP, we’ll have a first tape-out in IHP130 planned for September 2025, which will include our workshop designs! The goal of the workshop is to make the IC design process more accessible to the Swiss public and engage high school students with chip design and also study paths in electrical engineering.
When: Friday, June 27, 2025 starting at 13:30.
The workshop will go to approx. 17:45 and then we will have pizza and networking from 18:00-19:00, for those who can join.
Where: ETH Zurich: CAB G51 (lecture hall) & ETZ D61.1/D61.2/D96.1 (computer labs)
Who: Registration is open to everyone!
What: We'll look at how transistors work and design of a simple digital circuit, and then we'll dive into creating the chip layout and adding your design to the chip.
Language: Our teaching language will be in English, but we will have many Teaching Assistants to help out and most of them speak other languages, including German.
Prerequistes: No prior knowledge is necessary, however you need to be able to use a computer and internet. We will be using web-based tools, and you will need external page a GitHub account.
What to bring: We will be working in the computer lab and have computers for you to use, but feel free to bring your own laptop if you prefer. A mouse is strongly advised.
Food: We will have a coffee break during the workshop and pizza afterwards.
Registration: Email us if you're interested in registering a class or large group: or simply sign up below!
Registration Form:
Please see our page Accessibility @ ETHZ for more info if you have any special needs or requests: https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/education/e-accessibility/atETHZ.html
Terms and Conditions of Registration: Participants of the SwissChips & Tiny Tapeout workshop should be aware that during or in conjunction with the event, video recordings or photos may be taken in which they appear. They agree neither to demand financial compensation nor to restrict the use of such media.
