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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. This paper is reviewing the...
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... model cards are stored in an analog memory cell array. Such ASICs, as shown in Figure 9, form the computation core of a complete simulation system dedicated to the investigation of the dynamics of biomimetic neural networks. ...
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To address many real-life applications, ICs are necessary, but additional, basically mechanical features are also often necessary. All these features are usually provided by micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Several types of MEMS are available from CMP, and these are classified into two categories. The first category consists of two bulk micromachining MEMS, one based on a standard CMOS process and the other on a standard BiCMOS process. The second category consists of the specific MEMS processes such as the Multi User MEMS Processes (MUMPs) and Sandia Ultra-planar Multi-level MEMS Technology V (SUMMiT V). In these processes, very advanced systems can be created on moveable platforms. Biomedical applications of electronics and MEMS in general include implant devices and biosensors, DNA-based systems, analytical protein arrays, and cell-based systems. This chapter addresses a few examples of what can be achieved with standard processes, for example, those available from CMP. BiCMOS integrated circuits; biomedical electronics; bioMEMS; biosensors; CMOS integrated circuits; microfabrication
Thirty-two years ago, Electronics Magazine honored Carver Mead and Lynn Conway with its Achievement Award for their contributions to VLSI chip design. The ‘Mead & Conway methods’ were being taught at 100+ universities all over the world, and “not only have helped spawn a common design culture so necessary in the VLSI era, but have greatly increased interaction between university and industry so as to stimulate research by both.” Concepts such as simplified design methods, new, electronic representations of digital design data, scalable design rules, ‘clean’ formalized digital interfaces between design and manufacturing, and widely accessible silicon foundries suddenly enabled many thousands of chip designers to create many tens of thousands of chip designs. Today, as Moore's Law - a term coined by Carver Mead - has brought as from 10 microns to 10 nanometers, what is the heritage of Mead & Conway? UCB Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli will moderate an industry and research panel, to discuss what has remained the same, what was missed, what has changed, and what lies ahead.
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. This paper is reviewing the most recent developments at CMP, as well as other services similar to CMP. These services helped the development of microelectronics for the EE&CS communities. The conclusion includes statements on where manufacturing infrastructures like CMP should go, considering technical developments towards More Moore, More than Moore, as well as statements related to globalization.
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. This paper is reviewing the most recent developments at CMP like the introduction of a CMOS 45 nm process, the cooperation between the major infrastructures services available worldwide and recent developments w.r.t. India. The conclusion is addressing technical developments as well as considerations like globalization and excellence.
The technology of microfluidics has the potential to revolutionize the way in which a wide range of analytical and diagnostic tests are implemented in applications ranging from genomics to healthcare to environmental monitoring. The translation of innovation in microfluidic devices developed through academic research into actual applications is greatly facilitated by the availability of a prototyping platform, through which a proof-of-concept microsystem can be rapidly and efficiently prototyped. We present a description of a platform developed by CMC Microsystems and its academic research partners for the development of microsystem prototypes employing microfluidic technology. Implementing such a platform in a modular configuration is one means of addressing the diversity of functional requirements driven by the wide range of microfluidic research interests. The challenge of the developing such a platform is strongly concerned with defining not only a physical layout, but also the interfacial standards between the platform modules. The prototyping environment we describe is termed a ldquoCarrier Platformrdquo as it provides a standard for carrying the various microfluidic devices and signals which comprise the system function.
