The invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductor devices and integrated systems and discloses a quantum dot-based electronic nose chip and a design method thereof. The design method includes the following steps that: (1) a gas sensor array on the electronic nose chip is designed; and (2) a signal processing unit and a micro control unit are designed. The step (1) further includes thefollowing steps that: (1-1) with a quantum dot material adopted as an olfactory acceptor material, a quantum dot gas sensor unit is designed, specifically, a resistive or field effect transistor typesensor unit on a substrate is designed; and (1-2) a quantum dot sensor array of an MEMS or TFT device structure is designed based on the quantum dot gas sensor unit. According to the quantum dot-basedelectronic nose chip and the design method thereof of the invention adopted, the quantum dot material is adopted as the olfactory receptor material; the micro-nano gas sensor is designed and prepared; the sensor array is obtained on the basis of the MEMS and TFT device structure; and the MCU containing a pattern recognition algorithm, and the signal processing unit are integrated on the chip, andtherefore, the quantum dot-based electronic nose chip which has the advantages of high sensitivity , small size and low power consumption can be obtained.