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TITLE: Research and Training Action for System On Chip Design
REsearch And Training Action for System On Chip DesigN or REASON
is a project involving 22 organizations from 18 countries in
Central and Eastern Europe. The goal of the consortium is to
facilitate integration of the activities of member academic and
research institutions working in the field of microelectronics
with mainstream activities going on in the European Union
countries.
The main objectives of the project are as follows:
* Raising the level of awareness of industrial problems and the
level of competencies among researchers in CEE in methodologies
of system-on-chip design and test and analogue and mixed signal
IC design for wireless communication, networking, and multimedia.
* Strengthening of links between academic and industrial
partners, in order to facilitate formulation of new RTD projects
and formation of project consortia.
* Maintaining and expanding the research infrastructure in the
academic and research institutions of Central and Eastern Europe.
* Knowledge transfer to the SMEs and raising the level of
awareness of the IST programme, in order to facilitate
participation of SMEs in the Sixth Framework Programme projects.
Topics of interest include:
Methods and tools for system-on-chip design - courses
Methods and tools for system-on-chip design - tutorials
Methods and tools for system-on-chip design - summer schools
Testing and design for testability of SoCs
Thermal modeling, simulation and testing
Microsystem Design: Methods and Tools
Research Training in New Chip Architectures
Future and Emerging Problems in Microelectronics
The primary public scene for presentation of the REASON project
are the annual MIXDES conferences.
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