UNN team wins the international competition "CAD TRAJECTORY 2026"

A team from Lobachevsky University won the International Competition of Software Projects in the Field of Microelectronics CAD "CAD TRAJECTORY 2026". The final was held in Minsk as part of the 3rd Scientific and Technical Conference of the Union State "Electronic Engineering".

The Agenti team from UNN, including Andrey Starostin, Georgy Kashin, and Egor Shkelyov, took first place in the MSU task category by creating a solution for hierarchical decomposition of VLSI technology.

Lobachevsky University also commissioned one of the key competition tasks, the basic verification of design and technological constraints for microchips. For solving this problem proposed by UNN, first place was awarded to the PKIMS team from the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET) (Ivan Salakhov, Ilya Shvets, and Ekaterina Zubareva). The second place in the Lobachevsky University task category was taken by the Modalniks team from Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (Sergey Vlasov and Anastasia Kiseleva).

The team from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Ruslan Zaripov and Vadim Vologin) was awarded an honourable mention by the jury for their work on the MSU task. The team from MIET Research University, including Danila Danilkin, Maxim Kazakov, and Kirill Ignatiev (SPINTech Institute), secured second place in the MIET task category titled "Visualising Modelling Results under Limited Resource Conditions."

The competition aims to support young software developers and build a talent pool for the microelectronics sector. As part of the special session "CAD Human Resources: Top Solutions," finalists showcased their projects.  The session was moderated by Dmitry Bulakh, an associate professor at the Valiev Institute of Integrated Electronics at MIET Research University.

All the finalists received professional evaluation of their projects, valuable networking with industry leaders, memorable prizes from the competition organisers, and branded merchandise from software development companies. The competition demonstrated the strong skills of students and young researchers in developing domestic automated design tools and showed the increasing interest of universities in creating their own software solutions for microelectronics.