desktop specifications needed for an undergraduate in IC design?

[snowstormnight]

Hi everyone,

I am a first year ECE student that is planning to do some IC design works this summer in a lab. Currently, I only have a macbook, which is appearently not enough for such work. Thus, I am thinking about building a PC for the task. Can anyone suggest some specification for the task? I would likely to be working on some RISC-V, in-memory computing archicture, and systolic array archicuture design.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

[Andy Chee]

Multi-monitor setup would be my suggestion.