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TITLE: EUROPRACTICE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR IC PROTOTYPING
EUROPRACTICE IC Service is launching the mini@sic program in
order to stimulate academia and publicly funded research
institutes to prototype ASIC designs for education or publicly
funded research. Through multi-project wafer (MPW) services, the
expensive cost of prototype run (masks and wafers) are shared
amongst several customers. However for student education or PhD
research programs the minimum prototyping charges are still too
high. By introducing the mini@sic concept on MPW runs,
EUROPRACTICE is offering considerably lower minimum prototyping
charges for small ASIC designs.
The EUROPRACTICE IC Service was started in October 1995 by IMEC
(Belgium) to setup a low cost and easy access to ASIC design,
prototype and small volume fabrication. These activities are part
of the global EUROPRACTICE project in order to stimulate industry
to use ASIC solutions in their new product developments and to
stimulate academics to introduce new design methodologies in
their curricula. During the past years, the IC service of
EUROPRACTICE has been developed to one of the most successful
ASIC prototype and small volume service in Europe. The European
Commission is continuing to fund the EUROPRACTICE initiative in
order to strenghten the offered services, to increase the
quality, and to setup close cooperation with design houses in
order to offer a complete solution including design and
fabrication to our customers. This will further strenghten the
possibility of new successful ASIC developments.
For additional information, access: EUROPRACTICE
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EUROPRACTICE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IC PROTOTYPING
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DATE: February 2003
TITLE: EUROPRACTICE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR IC PROTOTYPING
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