Chip Design Bootcamp Wants You to Build a CPU

Why it surfaced

This is unusually concrete for an online learning project: students write Verilog and C, submit 18 exercises to a simulator, and test their work against a hidden reference. The bootcamp offers either a live Astana cohort with instructors and teaching assistants or a self-paced route using the same curriculum and grading platform.

An intensive course takes learners from transistor-level logic to a self-designed RISC-V processor and manufacturable layout.