Austrian Chip Competence Center offers introduction into Open Source Analog Chip Design for Electronic Engineers
Austrian Chip Competence Center offers introduction into Open Source Analog Chip Design for Electronic Engineers
In this two-day hands-on workshop, you will work with the complete open-source analog IC design flow, from schematic simulation to layout, LVS, parasitic extraction, and post-layout verification. Using the IHP open PDK and the web-based BlueGarden EDA environment, you’ll build and validate a CMOS inverter and a ring oscillator with Xschem, ngspice, and KLayout. You’ll also get an overview of the global IC ecosystem and the role of open-source EDA alongside commercial tools. A live mixed-signal chip design demo rounds off the workshop.
This course is developed by Symbiotic EDA.
Prerequisites: Basic Linux Commands | Trained as electronics engineer understanding analog circuits | Understanding of CMOS circuits
Mode: on premise
Location: University of Technology Graz/Austria, Campus Inffeldgasse
Language: English
Duration: 2 days, 8 hours/day (incl. breaks)
Course dates: 24-25th of November 2026
Current Status: open for registration from 28th of October
Certification: Certificate of Attendance
Chip design training at INL in Portugal
Chip design training at INL in Portugal
Basic analog IC design with open-source tools 17-18 November 2026
Basic analog IC design with open-source tools 17-18 November 2026
This two-day training course offers a hands-on introduction to open-source analog IC design, guiding participants through a full schematic-to-post-layout workflow. On Day 1, participants will learn how open-source IC design fits within the semiconductor ecosystem and explore PDKs. They will also characterise MOS devices and design and verify a CMOS inverter through DC,transient and PVT simulations. Day 2 focuses on physical implementation, including layout, DRC,LVS, parasitic extraction, post-layout simulation and reproducible design flows.
Keywords: Analog IC design, EDA tools, CMOS technologies, Back-end design
Training is held by Symbiotic EDA team member Dr. Juyan Moya at
INL, Portugal Avenida Mestre José Veiga s/n, 4715-330 Braga, Portugal
Price: 150€ Level: Beginner Language: English
Open-Source silicon education presented at MIXDES 2026
Open-Source silicon education presented at MIXDES 2026
(June 2026) At the 33rd MIXDES conference in Poznań, Juan S. Moya presented “Broadening Participation in Open-Source Integrated Circuit Design and Fabrication Through IEEE Activities”. The paper highlights how open PDKs, open-source EDA flows, training programs, mentoring, and fabrication support are making realistic IC design accessible to more students, universities, and small research groups. Symbiotic EDA contributes to this broader effort through BlueGarden, its managed open-source IC design environment, which helps provide reproducible toolchains, PDK access, and practical design infrastructure for training and collaborative chip-design work. The initiatives presented show that open-source silicon needs more than tools alone: it requires reliable infrastructure, educational programs, funding, test hardware, and pathways from first designs to fabricated and measurable silicon.
Symbiotic EDA brings Open-Source EDA tools to University of Aveiro
Symbiotic EDA brings Open-Source EDA tools to University of Aveiro
On 21 May 2026, Symbiotic EDA participated in a microelectronics training session at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Juan Sebastian Moya Baquero, representing INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and Symbiotic EDA, delivered an invited talk and hands-on session on analog circuit layout design using open-source EDA tools and the IHP OpenPDK. The session formed part of the Microelectronics course in the Master’s in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and was held at the invitation of Pedro Rito, Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro. Students and teachers used BlueGarden, Symbiotic EDA’s open-source EDA design environment, during the practical session. The event saw strong participation from students, researchers, and professors from the University of Aveiro and external institutions.
IEEE funded training in Colombia used our free cloud based chip design environment
IEEE funded training in Colombia used our free cloud based chip design environment
(Nov 2025) The IEEE SSCS-EDS SEED Program sends experts to underserved global regions for two-week visits to assess semiconductor education and industry infrastructure, identify gaps, and produce reports guiding future IEEE investments.
In December 2025, Symbiotic EDA team member Dr. Juan Sebastian Moya-Baquero was selected for the Colombia student outreach program giving University-level workshop, and engagements at the University of Quindío.
You can read his report about the training.
The managed remote design environment Bluegarden provided by Symbiotic EDA was used by the 30 students for their hands on design excercises.
The recording of all the teaching sessions which were held in Spanish are available on youtube.
Upskill opportunities in chip design
Upskill opportunities in chip design
(Oct 2025) During an IEEE workshop in Bogota, Juan Sebastian Moya from Symbiotic EDA did discuss with the panel challenges and opportunties of chip design workforce development in Latin America.
Symbiotic EDA is looking forward to collaborate with Universidad National de Colombia, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas and Catholic University of Uruguay to enable chip design education.
Estonian companies and academics receive open source EDA training
Estonian companies and academics receive open source EDA training
At the recent workshop held from September 3 to 5, 2025, at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology, Estonian companies were trained on open-source EDA tools through hands-on sessions and cutting-edge talks focused on chip design, and edge AI. Notably, sessions led by experts like Philippe Sauter, Michael Rogenmoser, and Natalia Cherezova delved into practical open-source chip design and RISC-V SoCs using the PULP platform, fostering new partnerships and bridging academia with Estonia's growing semiconductor sector.
20 week long RTL2GDS2 training started
20 week long RTL2GDS2 training started
(July 2025) SOur educational partner Suren did start his free starter training to become a digital chip design engineer. 20 students use the Symbiotic EDA Bluegarden Managed Design Platform to learn about synthesis, logic simulation, place&route, static timing analysis, parasitic extraction.
Training in Mexico
Training in Mexico
(June 2025) There will be a 4 day summerschool to learn chip design with open source EDA tools.
Mixed signal chip training in Chile
Mixed signal chip training in Chile
(June 2025) Symbiotic EDA team member Juan will give a one day IEEE training in Chile in October 2025 on how to use open source EDA tools with open source IHP PDK to design a mixed signal chip.
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