Chip Design Innovation
To meet academia’s needs for research on AI SoC design platforms, smart sensing chips, low-power IoT design platforms, silicon photonics integration systems, and CMOS-MEMS sensing platforms and to promote the future development of the industry, the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) has introduced multiple computer-aided design software packages for chip and system design that are widely used in the industry, as well as multiple SIP databases which are available for free to schools upon application. For front-end design, physical design, rapid prototyping, system technology design, and embedded software design, TSRI has also integrated design software, planned and built complete chip and system design processes and environments to improve the efficiency of chip and system design, and provided designers with technical support, training courses, maintenance of rapid prototype verification and design environments, and other required services during design, including the integration of design databases and the creation of technical data files in design environments.