Low-Cost IC Prototyping Services for European SMEs

Objective

The CHIP-SHOP project aims to reduce the costs, time-to-market and risks involved with first-time ASIC usage by European SMEs.

This will be done by organising regular MPW runs and recommending easy-to-use, well-proven design flows for ASICs and FPGAs to support competence centres (SCCs), commercial design houses and directly to SMEs. The SCCs and design houses will offer training and design assistance to the SMEs. The ASIC design prototyping will be organised by CHIP-SHOP. After initial prototyping with CHIP-SHOP's assistance, SMEs will then be able to transfer to commercial silicon vendors for volume production. In this way the project plans to mobilise existing networks of support and competence centres and commercial design houses to provide European SMEs with a cost-effective way of accessing various silicon technologies (such as CMOS, BiCMOS and FPGAs).

Fields of science

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › inorganic chemistry › metalloids

Programme(s)

• FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994

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Call for proposal

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Coordinator

STICHTING CENTRA VOOR MIKROELEKTRONICA

Address

Schoemakerstraat, 77, 6067
2600 JA Delft
Netherlands

Participants (9)

Centro Nacional de Microelectronica

Spain

Address

Campus Uab
08193 Bellaterra

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)

France

Address

Centre D'études De Grenoble 17 Avenue Des Martyrs
38041 Grenoble

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

Italy

Address

Piazzale Aldo Moro 7
00185 Roma

ELEKTRONIKCENTRALEN

Denmark

Address

Venlighedsvej, 4
2970 Hoersholm

European Silicon Structure

United Kingdom

Address

Mount Lane
RG12 3DY Bracknell

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung eV (FhG)

Germany

Address

Paul-gerhardt-allee 42
81245 München

INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE MIKROELEKTRONIK

Germany

Address

Richard Wagner Straße 1
38106 Braunschweig

INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES

Portugal

Address

Apartado 10105, Rua Alves Redol, 9
1017 Lisboa

INTRACOM SA-HELLENIC TELECOM.& ELECTR.INDUSTRY

Greece

Address

19.5 Km Markopoulou Avenue, 68, 68
19002 Peania - Attika