CTI Renato Archer – Brazilian government funded university for IC design

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Calendário CT2/CT3

The following cut and paste from the calendar should only be used as a guide.  It can change.  Appears the test date may be changed but that may be in error. USE THE GIGANTIC LINK ABOVE FOR CRITICAL PATH ITEMS.

Calendário CT2/CT3

12/11/13         Início do período de inscrições.
12/01/14         Fim do período de inscrições. [PRORROGADA ATÉ O DIA 27/01]
30 e 31/01/14         Prova online de seleção
07/02/14         Divulgação dos selecionados da 1ª Chamada. Os candidatos selecionados receberão um e-mail solicitando a confirmação de participação e o envio de documentação complementar escaneada.
06/03/14         Matricula Presencial, apresentação de documentos oficiais e orientações.
10/03/14          Início do Curso
28/02/15         Fim do Curso.

 

 

Summary: The Brazilian push into ICs seems to be to use the Cadence design classes in a 1 year program.

Research Links

• CTI Archer website
• CTI Archer on LinkedIn
• Search LinkedIn: CTI Renato Archer : People who have had association with CTI Renato Archer
• CTI – apresentacao "Design House"
• Linkin Connection #1 – he is professor at University Teacher at UNOESC in Chapeco Santa Catarina
• LinkedIn: Denise Alves – this person attended CTI Archer
• LinkedIn: Floripa Design House   Floripa Design House website
• WhitePaper: Brazil Design Houses Program
• CEITEC – RFID and RFIC semiconductor fab supported by the government in Rio Grande do Sul
• Idea Electronic Systems :  Independent IC design house in Campinas specializing in converters
• Silicon Reef – In Recife
• ExcelChip
• LinkedIn: HT Micron HT Micron – In Sao Leopoldo RS
• LinkedIn: Six Semicondutores – Six Semicondutores – in Minas Gerais
• UFSC: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica 
• UFSC Integrated Circuit Laboratory – You must apply to the post graduate program at UFSC
• Werner Von Braun Centro de Pesquisas Advancadas
• Núcleo de Projeto de Circuitos Integrados  – could not find a link

 

CI Initiative – The CT1 and CT2 programs look to be little more than Cadence training programs augmented by an internship afterwards

• CI Initiative
• Program Contents – list of the Cadence training programs included are on this page

Notes:

• CT1 – Rio Grand do Sul:  program runs approximately August to August
• CT2 – Sao Paulo: program runs approximately March to March:  FAQ CT2
• CT3 – UFABC – Santo André, SP -> They are probably going to open this up for this next period: Will mean 160 vacancies with about ~160 people applying. Should be a high acceptance rate.
• I called CT1:  Talked with:  Frederico Laydner  – He mentioned:  
  • Even the foreign students get the 2000R$ per month stipend.
  • The competition test has approximately 160 people competing for 80 slots.  Not too bad compared to what I thought!
  • A CT3 is being added in San Andre Sao Paulo.

 

Links: Notes on various processes necessary to enter Brazilian IC design programs

• Registering a Curriculum Latte on https://wwws.cnpq.br/cvlattesweb/pkg_cv_estr.inicio
• "Legalization" of school documents to allow them to be accepted in Brazil requires trip to Consulate in Chicago.
• University of Cincinnati: Request for replacement diploma

 

List of DH's  – Design Houses – There are 22 Design houses distributed throughout the country

• LSITEC
• Design House Belo Horizonte DHBH
• Santa Maria Design House SMDH

 

References

• As "Design Houses" Brasileiras – White paper detailing the government program road map  – local copy

Correspondence – Felipe Orlando

The program has 3 phases and work like this:

• First phase: you learn about the tools from cadence and about the theory from the ICs. This phase take 5 months.
• Second phase: you will apply what you have learn in a project that they will give you, You will have to do by yourself and this will take 6 months.
• The last phase, you will work on a "design house", that is a company where you will do a internship for 1 year.

In all the phases, you will have a scholarship from the government. About if you can do the program, I can say a little. Now on the program there is 40 students, about half are from another country. I think that doesn´t have any problem with you apply to this program. But you will need to wait for the program start to receive the appliance, that will be on november, I think.  You can get better answers with our manager, Jose Luis Ramirez Bohorquez.
–Felipe Orlando–

 

Application to the Program

• Local version of the 11/15/2013 CTI Renato Archer application form

 

 

Recommended books from the CTI Renato Archer FAQ for the Qualifying test:

• CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective – Neil Weste, David Harris
• Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective – Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic
• Microeletrônica – Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith
• Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface – David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

Qualifying Exam

• Example Analog Qualifying Test
• Example Digital Qualifying Test – Missing Images
• Example English Test

Participants

• Exam Participants
• Selected Participants
• Sao Paulo – CT2 – Segunda Chamada Participants

Calendar

• CT2- Sao Paulo Google Calendar of course – online version
• CT2-Sao-Paulo-Calendar -local version pdf