University of Tokyo's Kosuge Works on Democratizing LSI Design With ASPIRE
Atsutake Kosuge, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering, is working to make LSI development cheap and quick enough for non-specialists, using JST's Advanced International Collaborative Research Program (ASPIRE). LSI design costs have risen as generative AI and IoT demand push global chip development, leaving university teams with limited resources struggling to keep up. ASPIRE requires Japanese teams to send young researchers abroad to join international networks.