This course will arm students with the fundamentals and a practical working knowledge of the building blocks of today’s electronic world—knowledge that will benefit the student no matter what technical discipline they decide to pursue academically.  Students will receive hands-on experience on how to design and arrange semiconductors at the nanometer scale (130nm) to perform a specific function.  Students will start with a blank canvas and learn how to take a specification through the entire design process—including foundry manufacturability.  Once complete, the student’s design will be sent to a foundry for fabrication.  Six months later we’ll host a class reunion, and the students will be provided a dev kit with their custom design permanently etched in silicon—a milestone few have achieved! No prior experience with hardware is necessary for this online course or the BWSI class.