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Welcome to the Training Catalog of the European Network of Chip Competence Centres

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AIPhotonics26

Four-day workshop on the convergence of artificial intelligence and photonics, including machine learning, inverse design, optical computing and photonic hardware.

Target Audience: Graduate students
IntermediateIn personEnglishPhotonicsIC Design
15 Jun 2026 – 18 Jun 2026
PIXSpain CCMiramar Palace, DonostiaSan Sebastian, Spain
Duration: 4 days
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Seasonal School in IC Design: "IC Design for the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)"

Explores IC design for AIoT applications, covering SoCs, AI accelerators, edge computing, neuromorphic systems, and low-power hardware.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
AdvancedIn personPortugueseIC Design
22 Jun 2026 – 25 Jun 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Silicon Photonics Summer School 2026

Five-day summer school on silicon photonics, covering the PIC technology chain from design and fabrication to characterisation, packaging, testing and applications.

Target Audience: Graduate students
IntermediateIn personEnglishPhotonicsIC Design
22 Jun 2026 – 26 Jun 2026
PIXSpain CCUniversitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Duration: 4 days
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: unlimited
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Seasonal School on Advanced Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) IC Design 2026

This intensive program combines strong theoretical foundations with practical, hands-on IC design experience, offering a unique opportunity for students, researchers, and professionals working in microelectronics and semiconductor technologies.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
AdvancedIn personPortugueseIC Design
22 Jun 2026 – 31 Jul 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
Duration: 6 weeks
0 hrs · 6.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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From Atoms to Intelligence: Multi-Scale Memristive Design for Neuromorphic Systems and AI Accelerators

Explores memristive technologies from materials and device modeling to neuromorphic architectures and AI accelerator design.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntermediateIn personPortugueseIC Design
20 Jul 2026 – 23 Jul 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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DelftX: The Hardware of a Quantum Computer

Learn how a quantum computer could be physically build, and how it could be controlled.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntermediateOnlineEnglishQuantumManufacturing
August 25 2026
ChipNL CCOnline / EdX
Duration: 6 weeks (self-paced)
Seats: unlimited
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Circuit Analysis and Instrumentation in Steady-State Sinusoidal Regime

Provides theoretical and practical training in sinusoidal circuit analysis, simulation, experimentation, and electrical measurements.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntroductoryIn personPortugueseCharacterization and Test
1 Sept 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Circuit Analysis and Instrumentation in DC Mode

Develops competencies in DC and AC circuit analysis, measurement techniques, equivalent circuits, power analysis, and frequency response for electrical engineering applications.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntroductoryIn personPortugueseCharacterization and Test
1 Sept 2026 – 1 Oct 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Characterization of semiconductor materials and devices operating in extreme environments

Trains professionals to analyze, test, and evaluate semiconductor materials and devices under extreme operating conditions using physics, materials science, and reliability concepts.

Target Audience: Mid-career professionals
IntermediateIn personPortugueseCharacterization and Test
1 Sept 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Characterization of Microwave Devices and Antennas

Develops practical skills in measuring, analyzing, and characterizing microwave devices and antennas used in telecommunications and high-frequency systems.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntroductoryIn personPortugueseCharacterization and Test
1 Sept 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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FD-SOI ICs Design Opportunities Short Course

This short course on FD-SOI technology is intended for experienced chip designers, technologists and newcomers to the field. Led by industry experts, it will provide a comprehensive overview of FD-SOI technology and its benefits, addressing multiple aspects of circuit design.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntermediateIn personEnglishDevice PhysicsIC Design
21 Sept 2026 – 22 Sept 2026
FAMES17 avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, FRANCE
Duration: 1.5 day
10 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Thin-Film Optical Filter Engineering: From Design to Characterization

Covers the complete workflow of multilayer optical filters, from design and simulation to fabrication and characterization.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntermediateOnlinePortuguesePhotonics
1 Oct 2026 – 31 Oct 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: unlimited
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Digital VLSI Design - Frontend Hands-on Training Course

Covers digital IC frontend design, including HDL coding, RTL design, synthesis, optimization, timing analysis, and advanced design methodologies.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntermediateIn personPortugueseIC Design
1 Oct 2026 – 31 Oct 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Electronique de puissance : Apport du GAN et du SiC. Power Electronics: The Contribution of GaN and SiC

Know how to read and understand component datasheets Understand the challenges associated with GaN and SiC components Learn about the main topologies: buck, boost, inverter, and converters, including LLC-type DC/DC converters Be able to specify a power converter

Target Audience: Technicians
IntermediateHybridFrenchIC DesignProcess
19 Oct 2026 – 21 Oct 2026
ASTEERICSTours - France & online
Duration: 2,5 days (17,5 hours)
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Comprendre les enjeux des composants GaN et SiC et leurs applications industrielles - Understanding the challenges of GaN and SiC components and their industrial applications

Understand the challenges associated with GaN and SiC components and explore the application sectors and key topologies that benefit from them.

Target Audience: Mid-career professionals
IntermediateIn personFrenchIC DesignProcess
19 Oct 2026 – 19 Oct 2026
ASTEERICSTours - France
Duration: Half a day
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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From Design to Testing

Covers the complete IC testing workflow from design-for-test to packaging, PCB development, analog/digital testing, and automation.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntroductoryIn personPortugueseCharacterization and Test
1 Nov 2026 – 30 Nov 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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From Wafers to Chips to Components

Introduces wafer processing, chip handling, packaging, assembly, and electrical interconnection techniques for semiconductor devices.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntroductoryHybridPortugueseManufacturing
1 Nov 2026 – 30 Nov 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Integrated photonics

Covers the principles, design, simulation, and characterization of integrated optical devices and photonic systems.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntroductoryIn personPortuguesePhotonics
7 Dec 2026 – 12 Dec 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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International School on Lithography Technologies

Brings together experts to discuss lithography technologies, processing challenges, equipment advances, and emerging developments.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
AdvancedIn personPortugueseProcess
10 Dec 2026 – 10 Dec 2026
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Winter School on Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) Layout IC Design

Intensive hands-on training in AMS layout design using advanced CMOS technologies, with applications in automotive, IoT, and communications.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntermediateIn personPortugueseIC Design
1 Feb 2027 – 27 Feb 2027
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Digital VLSI Design Backend Hands-on Training Course

Intensive hands-on training in physical IC design, including floorplanning, placement, routing, clock-tree synthesis, and physical verification using industry EDA tools.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntermediateIn personPortugueseIC Design
1 Feb 2027 – 27 Feb 2027
POEMShttps://www.poemscentre.eu/en/learning-portal
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Fundamentals of superconducting device fabrication

Course will provide training in fabrication of superconducting Josephson junction devices, which are the main building blocks of superconducting quantum processors, travelling wave parametric amplifiers, SFQ logic circuits and more.

Target Audience: Graduate students
AdvancedIn personEnglishQuantumManufacturing
CC Chip.siNanocenter , Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Duration: Flexible
40 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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ElectrONiX - Power

We mainly deal with different power supplies and discuss their strengths and weaknesses, also with regard to electromagnetic compatibility. The main focus in this MOOC is therefore on the topics of linear voltage regulators, switched mode supplies and the basics of electromagnetic compatibility.

Target Audience: Students
IntroductoryEQF 7OnlineEnglishProcess
AT-C³https://imoox.at
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: unlimited
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Electromagnetic Compatibility Essentials

EMC is quite interdisciplinary and a challenging field. It is a subfield of electronics and communications engineering. Further, it is quite a practice-oriented subject, and in the beginning you are overwhelmed with a lot of technical terms. But don't worry: we will progress step by step.

Target Audience: Mid-career professionals
IntermediateEQF 7OnlineEnglishIC DesignQuality and Reliability
AT-C³https://imoox.at/course/EMC1
Duration: 3hours/unit; 15 Units in total
0 hrs · 1.50 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: unlimited
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Mechanical simulations

Door middel van Mechanical simulations kun je het ontwerp van een machine(onderdeel) of product in een vroeg stadium beoordelen en optimaliseren. Doorgaans gebeurt dit met Finite Element Software (Eindige Elementen Methode).

Target Audience: Mid-career professionals
IntermediateIn personDutchManufacturing
Multiple Starting Dates
ChipNL CCEindhoven
Duration: 4 weeks
Seats: unlimited
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Applied Optics Training

People who don't have to design (specify, test, ...) optical systems but are working in projects with optics together with optical designers and want to know more about optical prinicples, will benefit from this application-oriented course.

Target Audience: Mid-career professionals
IntermediateIn personEnglishPhotonics
Multiple Starting Dates
ChipNL CCEindhoven
Duration: 60 hours
Seats: unlimited
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Online workshop on Focused Ion Beam (FIB)

Learn the fundamentals of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and focused ion beam (FIB) techniques. Explore applications such as cross-section analysis, defect inspection, contact deposition, structure etching, 3D tomography, e-beam lithography, and lamella preparation.

Target Audience: Graduate students
IntermediateOnlineEnglishCharacterization and TestManufacturing
9 Jun 2026 – 9 Jun 2026
CC Chip.siOnline
Duration: 3 Hours
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: unlimited
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High-Level FPGA Design

Introduce high-level digital circuit synthesis and optimization from algorithms in the C/C++ language. It covers digital design description in programming languages, hardware-specific libraries, and design techniques. Practical experiments environment: AMD Vitis HLS and AMD (Xilinx).

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntroductoryIn personEnglishIC Design
1 Jun 2026 – 3 Jun 2026
CC Chip.sislovenia, Ljubljana
Duration: 24
0 hrs · 0.00 ECTS · 0.00 ECVET
Seats: limited
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Analog/Mixed-Signal Test and Design-for-Test for Integrated Circuits training

Analog and mixed-signal (A/MS) ICs require different testers than for digital ICs, as well as different DfT techniques. This course teaches the principles of practical A/MS DfT and test, and the imminent IEEE standards that facilitate systematic solutions now and eventually much more automation.

Target Audience: Mid-career professionals
IntermediateIn personEnglishQuality and ReliabilityCharacterization and Test
Expected June 2026
ChipNL CCEindhoven
Duration: 3 afternoons
Seats: unlimited
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JePPIX PIC Design Course

The PIC Design Course covers the theory and practice of integrated photonic components and circuit design using the powerful JePPIX building blocks. Layout and simulation methods are explored with JePPIX software partners and professional designers in hands-on sessions.

Target Audience: Recent graduates
IntermediateIn personEnglishIC DesignPhotonics
Fall 2026 (dates to be announced)
ChipNL CCEindhoven
Duration: 2 weeks
Seats: unlimited
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