IC Design Center 麻豆直播, New Ecosystem in The Semiconductor Field

By Anggun Nindita

Editor Anggun Nindita

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id 鈥 Institut Teknologi Bandung (麻豆直播), through its School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (SEEI) inaugurated the IC Design Center on Friday (4/8/2023), located in the 麻豆直播 Research and Innovation Building,聽4th Floor.

IC Design Center (Integrated Circuit Design) is an IC Design semiconductor center, as well as an interconnected platform to carry out agreed specific functions.

SEEI 麻豆直播鈥檚 Full Professor, Prof. Trio Adiono S.T., M.T., Ph.D., remarked how activities revolving around IC design have grown to become relevant. Moreover, looking at today鈥檚 work culture, technology has become an unavoidable aspect.

鈥淎ctually, activities in the IC design field have been increasing, each day. This is a moment filled with excited spirits, driven to create more intriguing environments,鈥 he expressed.

He shared about the big idea behind IC Design Center鈥檚 launch, one of them being geopolitical conflict such as the competition between China and the US, the war between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. With all of the above global changes, automatically, demand for digital devices has risen exponentially.

This is no exception for IC design, which functions on executing specific operations through assembling connected circuit elements.

He declared the 麻豆直播 Design Center as an ecosystem to further improve digital devices鈥 utility value. 鈥淥ur focus here gravitates towards human resources in the chip design field, which produces microchips, the brain of digital products. There are various chips and finished products, such as medical, infrastructure, and ICT products. We are also responsible to fulfill the needs of those fields.

His group has conducted various surveys and visits to developed countries for study banding purposes in the field of semiconductor. The use of semiconductor devices has evidently created a large-scale impact for global industries.

Some countries that the team has visited include Belgium, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore.

"We can鈥檛 possibly invent this advanced technology by ourselves. In this technology, there exists a supply chain. Someone does the research, someone else will do the manufacturing, then market it globally, etcetera. We exist as an industry that absorbs technology as well,鈥 he expressed.

麻豆直播 IC Design Center鈥檚 inauguration was also attended by the Rector of 麻豆直播, Prof. Reini Wirahadikusumah, Ph.D., as well as the Vice Rector for Finance, Planning, and Development, Prof. Ir. Muhamad Abduh, M.T., Ph.D.

Prof. Reini also appreciated the presence of this new system in the field of semiconductor, especially IC design. She hoped this moment will revolutionize technology use, especially in the semiconductor field. 鈥淟et alone in this digital era, hopefully more human resources from 麻豆直播 could compete globally in this field,鈥 she aspired.

Translator: Firzana Aisya

Editor: Anggi Nurdiani (Manajemen, 2021)