Why is a Physical Design workshop important for education?

Traditional pieces of training have taken an orthogonal shift, post-release of open-source EDA tools and SKY130 foundry. This has brought a huge opportunity for semiconductor ed-tech companies like VSD to close a wide gap within many training companies that have shifted their curriculum from theoretical PDK to real PDK. If you are a student, who is reading this blog, do not panic if you are not aware of PDK. This is something which we are covering in the workshop.
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Thanks to efabless, Google and Skywater for their joint initiatives which have helped so many institutes to fix their training content, which is a big start toward chip design. Moreover, it has helped VSD in 4 different ways.

Tool access - The reason we can provide lifetime access to labs is that the tools are open-source for students to practice, learn and even tapeout. Though many universities do have access to commercial software, and VSD supports all of them on the cloud (Thanks to our EDA partners), there is still a few set of participants who find it hard to access them and open-source is a boon for them

Low cost - Thanks to efabless and all other VSD partners globally, who believe in our vision and agreed to sponsor up to 55% of the workshop cost for all participants. So you need to pay just $30 for a $70 workshop. It doesn't stop here. VSD is committed to bringing in many more partner companies in the future who have seen us hustle for so many years and are now willing to contribute. We will talk more about it in the upcoming days