Overview

The OCDCpro Educator Portal is designed to support educators in implementing chip design challenges in their classrooms. It provides a resources, including references to teaching materials, guidelines, and tools to help educators create engaging and effective learning experiences for their students.

Goals

• Provide educators with a centralized platform to understand the didactics of chip design challenges.
• Ease the entry into the design flow if you are new to it.
• Offer easy access to teaching materials and resources.

Your journey to the course

Jump right in

To get you started, our Handbook contains a chapter on didactic methods and course types that help you understanding the differences and implications of variants.

Understand the flow

Familiarize yourself with the overall flow of the open source chip design flow. The Handbook provides a comprehensive overview, and can be used by you and your students as a reference for learning and teaching.

Get and give an overview

Ensure that you and your students have a solid understanding of the fundamentals. The overview slides provide a top-down explanation of the steps of the chip design from design entry to implementation. You can use them here or download and modify to your needs.

Prepare your materials

Open chip design challenges are different from other other courses in that they are more focused on hands-on, practical experience. Depending on your specific course setting, our materials list can be filtered to provide a good starting point for your course.