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Don't tell us what you learned.
Show us what you built.

The SION engineering portfolio is where students accumulate evidence — not certificates. Every project is reviewed by practicing engineers and joins your permanent portfolio of demonstrable engineering ability.

01 · Project Categories

Three categories.
All portfolio-defining.

Projects are organised by specialisation — ASIC, Verification, and FPGA. Every project card documents the full engineering arc: problem, specification, architecture, tools, implementation, challenges, debug, results, skills demonstrated, and deliverables.

ASIC Projects

RTL · Synthesis · Timing

Verification Projects

UVM · Coverage · Assertions

FPGA Projects

RTL · Board · Live Demo

ASIC Design Projects

ASIC · P01
Substantial RTL Design
Pipelined Arithmetic Processor

Design a multi-stage pipelined arithmetic block with configurable data widths, hazard handling and forwarding. Full RTL through synthesis and timing closure.

SystemVerilogPipeliningSTASynthesis
Deliverables: Spec · µArch · RTL · TB · Sim · Synth · STA · Report · Presentation.
ASIC · P02
Protocol Interface
AMBA-Style Bus Interface Block

Design an AMBA-style bus interface block with masters, slaves and interconnect. Implement, simulate and integrate at subsystem level.

Bus ProtocolsIntegrationRTLSoC
Deliverables: Interface spec · RTL · TB · Protocol trace · Integration report.

SoC Verification Projects

VERIF · P01
IP Verification
UVM Environment for Digital IP

Build a complete UVM environment — driver, monitor, agent, sequencer, scoreboard — for a mid-complexity digital IP. Close functional coverage to defined targets.

SystemVerilogUVMCoverageAssertions
Deliverables: Verif plan · UVM env · Test suite · SVA · Cov report · Bug list · Final report.
VERIF · P02 FUNCTIONAL COVERAGE78%
Subsystem Verification
Coverage-Driven Subsystem Verif

Verify a subsystem containing multiple IPs. Build layered coverage models, run regression, triage failures, and drive coverage closure.

RegressionCoverage ClosureDebugReporting
Deliverables: Subsystem verif plan · Multi-agent env · Regression logs · Cov closure · Sign-off doc.

FPGA Design Projects

FPGA · P01
FPGA Capstone
Full-Flow FPGA System Design

Design an FPGA system from RTL through timing closure to a live board demonstration. Integrate IP, close timing, program the bitstream and demo on real hardware.

RTLConstraintsBitstreamBoard Bring-Up
Deliverables: Spec · RTL · Timing report · Bitstream · Board demo · Debug log · Presentation.
FPGA · P02
High-Speed Interface
Interface + Debug Bring-Up

Bring up a defined interface on an FPGA board, debug signal-integrity and functional issues, and instrument with internal debug cores.

High-Speed I/ODebugSignal IntegrityBring-Up
Deliverables: RTL · Constraints · Debug capture · Bring-up doc · Live demo.
02 · The SION Engineering Portfolio

A portfolio a hiring engineer can actually read.

Every project produces the same set of deliverables — because that's what hiring engineers look for. By the end of the program, students have a coherent, portable, verifiable portfolio of their capability.

Written Artifacts
Specs, µArch, Reports
Every project ships written specification, microarchitecture document and technical report — the artifacts hiring engineers actually read before an interview.
Code Artifacts
RTL, Testbenches, Env
Clean codebases you own — RTL, testbenches, UVM environments and constraint files — all versioned, all yours to share.
Tool Outputs
Sim, Synth, STA, Cov
Simulation logs, synthesis reports, timing reports, coverage reports — the kind of evidence that separates a real engineer from a paper qualification.
Hardware Evidence
FPGA Demos, Waveforms
Where applicable, working board demonstrations and captured waveforms — proof that your logic ran.
Communication
Technical Presentations
Every project ends in a technical presentation to practicing engineers — the same format used in real design reviews.
Engineer Review
Reviewed & Feedback
Your work is reviewed by practicing engineers with specific, engineering-level feedback — not batch grading.
The portfolio is the whole point. A certificate says you attended a course. A portfolio proves you can engineer. SION Varsity is engineered around producing the second.
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Graduate with proof.

Don't graduate with just a certificate — graduate with a portfolio real engineers can read.

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