SoC Labs, Welcome to 2026 and Free online technical workshop on 21st January: Simplifying System-on-Chip (SoC) design and fabrication with ARM Reference Architecture

Dear SoC Labs community member,

We are excited to see the start of 2026 as we have many exciting things planned for the year.

We are excited to kick off the year with a free online technical workshop on simplifying System-on-Chip (SoC) design and fabrication. The workshop will cover the complete SoC development lifecycle, looking not only at how to undertake and Arm based SoC design but looking to help simplify all the tasks associated with it. This includes how to maintain the EDA tool environment, how to utilise foundry PDKs for physical design leading to silicon validation of a design.

The workshop will use the SoC Labs freely available nanoSoC reference design, an Arm-based microcontroller SoC, and demonstrate how silicon-proven Cadence workflows and a GlobalFoundries technology node can be used to fabricate a design. nanoSoC has been taped out successfully with minimal cost and by individual Masters and PhD students. The workshop will also share some details of more ambitious SoC reference designs and highlight some custom accelerator integration examples for AI/ML workloads.

We do hope you can join us for this workshop:

Wednesday, January 21

10:00 AM ET

Please sign up to the work shop here:

https://fabricinnovation.ca/simplifying-system-on-chip-design-and-manufacture/

Do feel free to forward to any of your colleagues that might be interested. We look forward to seeing you on the workshop and looking forward to collaborating with you in 2026.

John.