Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering graduates or equivalent and retrainees. The project is actually the centre of the course, with everything else revolving around it.
Emphasis is on teamwork for conquering design complexity.
This forces the teams to carefully define certain critical interfaces in the design, hence allowing interchange of sub-modules and verification test benches. This year's course is divided into two 2-week courses that run concurrently from May 21 to June 1. One course will be devoted to digital system design and the other to CMOS analog IC design. Both courses will work on the same project, albeit on different design aspects. They include small and large Canadian-owned companies, subsidiaries of multinational corporations, universities and government laboratories.