Infrastructures for Education and Research: from National Initiatives to global operations

B. Courtois (1) , K. Torki (1) , S. Dumont (1) , S. Eyraud (1) , J.F. Paillotin (1) , Gregory Di Pendina (1)

1 CMP - Circuits Multi-Projets

Infrastructures to provide access to custom integrated hardware manufacturing facilities are important because they allow Students and Researchers to access professional facilities at a reasonable cost, and they allow Companies to access small volume production, otherwise difficult to obtain directly from manufacturers. In the late 70s/early 80s, pioneering integrated circuits Multi-Chip Projects / Multi-Project Wafers initiatives have been launched in Europe, Asia, and North America. Some of these initiatives work together and today a worldwide cooperation has been established by the most experienced. The paper review these initiatives and the motivations for a global cooperation scheme.

Mots clés: multi-projects wafers; integrated circuits; infrastructures; multi-projects wafers.

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

B. Courtois, K. Torki, S. Dumont, S. Eyraud, J.F. Paillotin, et al.. Infrastructures for Education and Research: from National Initiatives to global operations. The 13th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2009, Jul 2009, Orlando, Florida, United States. ⟨hal-00395358⟩