Inspiring Minds, Designing Chips

A Fabless Design & Training hub for Up-Skilling graduate engineers for the Semiconductor Industry and perform chip design research and development.

About us

NCDC is a national level initiative to ignite the semiconductor ecosystem in Pakistan. It aims to be an inclusive, open and collaborative entity with a vision to facilitate universities, industries and engineering graduates, thereby placing Pakistan on the global semiconductor map. Key features include

Train-to-Hire Chip Design & Manufacturing Trainings
University Memberships & Industrial Partnerships
EDA Tools, PDKs, and Tape-outs
Chip Design Startup Incubation
Chip Testing Services
Cutting-edge R&D and much more…

Trainings

Industry Validated Curriculum & Expert Trainers
Hands-on experience using industry-standard EDA tools
Complete design to tape-out cycle
Manufacturing and OSAT training

Incubation possibilities at training completion
Stipends available
Soft-skills mentoring & Extra-curricular activities
Exit interviews of successful trainees by chip design companies

Digital IC Design

Computer Architecture
RISC-V
Advanced Digital Design
C Programming
RTL to GDS Flow using Cadence & Open Source Tools
FPGA Prototyping

Analog & Mixed Signals IC Design

MOS Device to Circuit understanding
Analog design cycle including schematic & layout
Practical circuit design experience of OTAs, BGR, LDO, VCO, PLL and data converters
DRC, LVS & chip sign-off process