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BOSC – One Student One Chip Phase4

After learning from the valuable experiences summarized by students who participated in the third session of the initiative, the project team sorted out the goals of the fourth session of the “One Student One Chip” Initiative and clarified the three-step strategy of the “One Student One Chip” Initiative. The first step is to break the barriers of imbalanced educational resources, so that those college students from both sides of the country who are very interested in processor chip design can also have the opportunity to participate in the full-process learning of processor chips. This has very important and positive significance for improving the popularization of processor chip education in colleges and universities in my country. The second step is to break through the boundaries of traditional courses and integrate EE and CS for full-stack talent training. The core of the fourth session of the”One Student One Chip” Initiative is to build a set of software and hardware co-design concepts and integrate them into the entire processor chip teaching process so that students not only understand how to design processor chips with code , but also to understand how processor chips are made, that is, the entire process of processor chips from design to manufacturing. The third step is to encourage students who have participated in the program to enter the software and hardware open source community and strive to overcome various bottleneck problems that our country currently needs to solve. In stuck areas, major breakthroughs in key areas will ultimately attract more students to participate in the “One Student One Chip” Initiative, thus achieving a virtuous positive cycle.The number of applicants for the fourth session of “One Student One Chip” was 1,753, covering a total of 328 colleges and universities at home and abroad. The number of applicants increased by 130.0% compared with the previous session, and the growth rate of college coverage was 95.2%. This shows that with the progress of third session of “One Student One Chip” Initiative, more students recognized the large-scale talent training plan proposed by the teaching team, and the scale of teaching began to gradually expand. The fourth session of the “One Student One Chip” Initiative is divided into four training stages, of which a total of 98 people have studied to stage B, a total of 101 people have studied to stage A, a total of 16 people have completed the tape-out through defense, and a total of 215 people have continued to study. People, despite increasing the difficulty of learning, the number of students continuing to study this period has basically remained the same as that of the previous session. And as the learning stage deepens, there is no obvious one-sided situation in the number of undergraduates and graduate students. This shows that whether you are just starting students with zero-based in professional knowledge or scholars who have already engaged in research in related fields can adapt well to the training program provided by “One Student One Chip”.

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