Title :
The EUROPRACTICE MPC service
Author_Institution :
Div. INVOMEC, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Abstract :
IMEC has been involved in MPC services for universities and industry since 1984. In the beginning these services were set up to support the local educational programme. Later on in 1989, IMEC was coordinator of the European wide MPC services in the EC funded project EUROCHIP. Today since October 1995, IMEC has been coordinator of the IC Manufacturing Service in the EC funded project EUROPRACTICE. The paper discusses the EUROPRACTICE project, an ESPRIT initiative in the field of European microelectronics. EUROPRACTICE will concentrate primarily on three microelectronics-based technologies: application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), multi-chip modules (MCMs) and microsystems. The paper considers the EUROPRACTICE MPC service in detail
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; circuit CAD; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit manufacture; multichip modules; research initiatives; ASIC; CAD; EC funded project; ESPRIT initiative; EUROCHIP; EUROPRACTICE MPC service; Europe; IC Manufacturing Service; IMEC; application specific integrated circuits; industry; local educational programme; microelectronics; microsystems; multi-chip modules; universities; Application specific integrated circuits; Costs; Design automation; Educational institutions; Europe; Integrated circuit technology; Manufacturing industries; Microelectronics; Production; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the ASP-DAC '97 Asia and South Pacific
Conference_Location :
Chiba
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3662-3
DOI :
10.1109/ASPDAC.1997.600205
