Objective - Demonstration of effective, working, user-friendly links between existing different European CAD tools, to be exploited commercially as new product enhancements.-The project will allow users to complement their existing investments in CAD products from US vendors (in particular from HP-EEsof) with a set of easy-to-use extensions and links to European CAD tools/models offering added user value.-Major enhancements to existing CAD interface formats will be demonstrated through the provision of direct access to MMIC foundry library modules. Furthermore, the consortium intend to work towards a common European style of user interface.-New analysis techniques will be provided for MMICs which are complex, multi-function and operating in strongly non-linear and/or low-power regimes.-An advanced, standardised, non-linear FET model will be delivered for at least two of the foundry processes represented in the consortium, using a synthesis of the best available research ideas, including a unified, physics-constrained model.The overall objective of EDGE is to provide a new, user-oriented and commercially-driven CAD resource to support high-frequency analogue design in Europe, specifically targeting linear and non-linear MMICs, as well as interconnect structures, for operation from 0.1 GHz to 100 GHz and beyond. The project's main outside industrial impact will be through enabling shorter time-to-market and reduced cost for successful circuit realisation in several key application sectors with major growth potential in the microwave, RF and mm-wave area, especially those related to Si- and GaAs-based components for wireless communications. Programme(s) FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 2.6 - Semiconductors - Building blocks, methods & tools Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Address Belfield 4 Dublin Ireland See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Barnard Microsystems GB EU contribution € 0,00 Address Crouch hill 134 N8 9DX London See on map Dassault Electronique France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Quai marcel dassault 55 92214 Saint-cloud See on map GAAS Code GB EU contribution € 0,00 Address St john's innovation centre cowley road CB4 4WS Cambridge See on map GEC Marconi Materials Technology Ltd GB EU contribution € 0,00 Address Caswell NN12 8EQ Towcester See on map Jansen Microwave Gmbh Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Kackertstrasse 16-18 52072 Aachen See on map Laboratoires D'electronique Philips France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avenue descartes 22 94453 Limeil brevannes See on map
