As the pace of progress that has followed Moore's law continues to diminish, it is critical that the US support Integrated Circuit (IC or chip) education and research to maintain technological innovation. Furthermore, US economic independence, security, and future international standing rely on having on-shore IC design capabilities. New devices with disparate technologies, improved design software toolchains and methodologies, and technologies to integrate heterogeneous systems will be needed to advance IC design capabilities. This will require rethinking both how we teach design to address the new complexity and how we inspire student interest in a hardware systems career path. The main recommendation of this workshop is that accessibility is the key issue. To this end, a National Chip Design Center (NCDC) should be established to further research and education by partnering academics and industry to train our future workforce. This should not be limited to R1 universities, but should also include R2, community college, minority serving institutions (MSI), and K-12 institutions to have the broadest effect. The NCDC should support the access, development, and maintenance of open design tools, tool flows, design kits, design components, and educational materials. Open-source options should be emphasized wherever possible to maximize accessibility. The NCDC should also provide access and support for chip fabrication, packaging and testing for both research and educational purposes.

翻译：随着遵循摩尔定律的推进速度持续减缓，美国支持集成电路（IC或芯片）教育与研究以维持技术创新变得至关重要。此外，美国的经济独立性、安全性及未来国际地位有赖于本土芯片设计能力。推动芯片设计能力提升需要新一代异构技术器件、改进的设计软件工具链与方法，以及异构系统集成技术。这要求我们重新思考如何教授设计以应对新的复杂性，以及如何激发学生对硬件系统职业道路的兴趣。本次研讨会的主要建议是：可及性才是核心问题。为此，应建立国家芯片设计中心（NCDC），通过学术界与产业界的合作共同培养未来劳动力，以推进研究与教育。这一举措不应局限于R1大学，还应涵盖R2大学、社区学院、少数族裔服务机构（MSI）及K-12教育机构，以取得最广泛的效果。NCDC应支持开放设计工具、工具流程、设计套件、设计组件及教育材料的获取、开发与维护，并尽可能强调开源方案以最大化可及性。同时，NCDC应为科研与教育目的提供芯片制造、封装与测试的获取渠道及支持。