Industry-education integration to create "Chinese chip" "Gaoyun Cup" IC design competition opens

The first "Gaowen Cup" Integrated Circuit Innovation Design Competition, sponsored by Guangdong Gaoyun Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Gaoyun Semiconductor), was grandly held at the Minhang Campus of East China Normal University. The participating teams came from eight universities including East China Normal University, Shanghai University, Donghua University, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai University of Technology, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University and Shanghai University of Engineering Science, with a total of more than 80 participating teams.

This competition is the first IC Innovation Design Competition of East China Normal University, hosted by the Academic Affairs Office of East China Normal University and organized by the School of Information Science and Technology, with strong support from the Alumni Association of East China Normal University. As the title sponsor of the competition, Gaoyun Semiconductor actively participated in the selection and evaluation of the competition. The participating teams from Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Donghua University, and East China Normal University won the first prize and Gaoyun Enterprise Award respectively. The participating team members demonstrated their excellent innovative design capabilities and solid professional foundation with their highly creative solutions, and won high praise from the judges.

Professor Dai Liyi, Vice President of East China Normal University, attended the award ceremony and delivered a speech. He highly praised Gowin Semiconductor for its emphasis on the cultivation of domestic integrated circuit talents. He looked forward to developing diversified school-enterprise cooperation with Gowin Semiconductor to cultivate more reserve talents for the domestic semiconductor industry, enhance independent innovation capabilities, and get rid of the situation of being controlled by others as soon as possible.

Professor Lai Zongsheng, a tenured professor at East China Normal University, participated in the judging of the competition throughout and attended the industry-education integration talent training seminar with the theme of "Co-cultivating Talents and Co-creating Chinese Chips" hosted by Dean Shi Yanling of the School of Information Science and Technology. The seminar also invited many ECNU alumni from the front line of the integrated circuit industry as guests. The seminar discussed the development of the domestic semiconductor industry and talent training in a lively atmosphere.

"As a domestic FPGA solution provider, Gowin Semiconductor has always attached great importance to the cultivation of local IC talents and the construction of an industrial talent team. By launching the "Thousand Development Board Plan" and the Star Core Plan aimed at accumulating IP resource libraries, it actively provides technical training and engineering training opportunities for more college students." Mr. Wang Tianping, Vice President of Engineering at Gowin Semiconductor, said, "At present, Gowin Semiconductor is actively establishing an industry-university-research alliance to attract teachers and students to actively participate in the research and development and innovative applications of domestic FPGA chips, forming a good interaction of industry-education integration, and using FPGA basic application research and development and IP soft core research and development to drive domestic IC industry innovation and create a Chinese core together."

Mr. Liang Yuefeng, Assistant to the General Manager of Gowin Semiconductor, and Ms. Li Qian, Vice President of HR, attended the seminar.