EUROPRACTICE CAD and IC service for European universities and research institute...
EUROPRACTICE CAD and IC service for European universities and research institutes
This proposal is submitted to continue the current Europractice IC Service.<br/>The current EUROPRACTICE IC Service project, part of the 6th Framework and ending on 31 December 2008, is widely recognized as a world-class service o...
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This proposal is submitted to continue the current Europractice IC Service.<br/>The current EUROPRACTICE IC Service project, part of the 6th Framework and ending on 31 December 2008, is widely recognized as a world-class service offering state-of-the-art CAD tools and technologies to universities and industry. Continuation of this project is considered indispensable as universities need to be able to renew their annual CAD licenses and need continued support for their research and courses and need to be further stimulated to keep up with new technologies. Continuation is needed and in order to avoid a gap (waiting for the next call – possibly only in 2008), this proposal is submitted now.<br/>The objectives are offering access to CAD tools for learning and access to advanced IC technologies for prototyping. Under this project 550 European universities and 50 research centers will be able to use the service and will get technical support both on the use and installation of CAD tools and on the ASIC technologies and design kits.<br/>As a broker, Europractice negotiates low cost conditions with the most popular industrial-standard CAD vendors for educational use. Europractice has negotiated with several IC foundries agreements to buy or share low cost MPW (Multi Project Wafer) runs in order to offer low cost prototype possibilities to universities and research institutes. New advanced technologies, such as 0.13um SiGe, 0.18um High Voltage, 90nm and 65nm CMOS will be added to the portfolio of offered technologies when those technologies become available and affordable.<br/>Also discussions will start with other European "service" providers, initiated by EC funded projects, in order to make them available on wider European scale to the existing network of 550 universities. As such, the IC service will be further extended with prototyping possibilities in selected MEMS-like technologies.