Enhancing EDA education through gamification

As electronics industry leaders seek creative engineers capable of designing solutions to the circuit problems of the future, such as the end of Moore's Law, microelectronics education must incorporate more creativity and innovative design approaches. This paper proposes the use of gamification for encouraging creative thinking among students in electronic design automation education. The education module described in this work may also be used to harness the problem-solving techniques of game users through crowdsourcing and data mining. By integrating electronic design automation algorithms with game mechanics, it may be possible to find new solutions to circuit design problems.