The EU funded project ADMONT (Advanced Distributed Pilot Line for More-than-Moore-Technologies) was finished by end of April 2019. Project results provide now prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting and system qualification between TRL4 and TRL8. ADMONT is an ECS (European Electronic Components and Systems) ecosystem for Europe in agreement with the EFRE strategy from Saxony with strong influence on economic growth and employment in the Union. Results will affect employment rate (locally and Europe wide), energy efficiency in end products as well as energy and resource efficiency in industrial production itself.
ADMONT was planned as an incubator centre for SME innovations in Europe for electronic systems and solutions based on semiconductor technologies. The overall goal of ADMONT was to implement a distributed More-than-Moore pilot line for products and services based on a wide-ranging set of technologies or essential capability modules (ECM) not available within one manufacturing facility. In order to allow development and industrialisation of innovation projects, a virtual facility capable to provide diverse process flows as a ‘one-stop shop’ needed to be carefully specified, planned and implemented. Besides the specific challenges of More-than-Moore manufacturing lines the distribution of capabilities was an important consideration in order to achieve cost, cycle time, quality and yield-competitive manufacturing solutions. This can be demonstrated now by showing the workflow for qualification of several demonstrators for key applications like lab-on-chip for smart health & diagnostics, RFID transponder systems for smart mobility, micro pump driver for smart energy and real time factory information system for smart production. In combination with advanced modelling approaches for high-voltage devices and their characteristics, the pilot line will also focus on first-time-right design for the customer, which is a crucial aspect for time-to-market, especially for complex smart systems. The pilot line is organised along the value chain from CMOS wafer processing with More-than-Moore 0.35μm high and ultra-high-voltage and integrated sensor technologies at X-FAB Dresden, sensor processing and sensor material development at FhG-IPMS Dresden, organic semiconductor materials and OLED processing at FhG-FEP and 2.5/3D silicon-system integration at FhG-ASSID. The pilot line offers four distinct essential capability modules (ECM) at his four locations: CMOS capabilities, sensor actuator capabilities, organic capabilities and silicon system integration. The ADMONT pilot line is working as an open platform and customers can select and use single processes or technology modules or combinations of it from all capabilities for smart system integration. The ADMONT pilot line aims for cost effective and energy efficiency production, robust and stable processes, technologies and product diversification under MtM production with high yield and excellent quality under world-class environment.