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:: About The Digital Sandbox is an infrastructure project that sustains the hands-on laboratory environment required for the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse Education and Training programs to function effectively. Through the Digital Sandbox, the PDG is funding a virtual SoC design support facility to support SoC design and education activities at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University, and Carnegie Mellon University.This virtual SoC design support facility provides "industrial strength" hardware, software, EDA tools, workflows, and technical support staff to all three PDG member universities. This will enable Digital Sandbox student and faculty users to create real-world designs for modern semiconductor process technologies, and thus, enhance university-industry interaction and improve the quality of graduating engineers. :: Vision Teaching in the context of modern SoC design requires an extensive set of software tools and design libraries, as well as hardware that is configured to efficiently run that software. This infrastructure is expensive to develop and maintain. The vision of this project is to develop and share a common infrastructure between the three greenhouse universities: Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh and Penn State. This infrastructure will be used to support one or more major design experience courses that are taught by the member schools and open to students at any of the member schools. In addition, the sandbox will provide facilities for the teaching of short non-degree courses.:: Funding 
Pittsburgh Digital Sandbox is funded by the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse
and is one of the multiple PDG's programs to address the
education/training needs of both university students and professional
engineers.
Founded in 1999, the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse (PDG) is a strategic economic development initiative established to foster growth across a regional industry cluster that is developing and employing System on Chip (SoC) and related technologies for networking and multimedia applications. The PDG has helped create an ideal environment for business expansion by leveraging the region's existing high-tech base, and combining it with resources and support from local universities, private foundations, regional development organizations, state and local government, and industry. We have enabled regional economic growth by utilizing this "business friendly" environment to attract new companies to the region, help local members grow, and foster start-ups. :: Publications
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