[DATE2026 Panel] Empowering Education through Open-Source Hardware

 #SavetheDate | On April 22, 2026, at 11:00 Norbert Wehn and Lukas Krupp from the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau will host a special session at the DATE Conference 2026 in Verona, Italy: “Empowering Education through Open-Source Hardware”.

The session focuses on how open design ecosystems can make chip development more accessible, from first hands-on experiences to full design flows from system level to GDSII. Topics include:

• open-source hardware in education
• hands-on chip design across the full stack
• broader access to PDKs, IP, and EDA tools

Panelists:

• Luca Benini (ETH Zürich)
• Luca Carloni (Columbia University)
• Oscar Gustafsson (Linköping University)
• Patrick Haspel, PhD (Synopsys Inc)
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Kahmen (IHP – Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics)
• Matt Venn (Tiny Tapeout)

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