Evolution of the MOSIS VLSI educational program

Author

Pina, César A.

Author_Institution

MOSIS Service, Univ. of Southern California, CA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

187

Lastpage

191

Abstract

Discusses the evolution of the MOSIS Service and its Educational Program (MEP) from its beginnings to the present. MOSIS was started in 1981 by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) to provide their research community with access to advanced IC fabrication technologies at a reasonable cost. The cost savings resulted from the use of the multiproject wafer (MPW) concept, enabling users to share the costs of fabrication. In 1985, the prototyping service was extended to U.S. universities. At that time access to MOSIS fabrication was provided to accredited U.S. universities that offered classes in IC design. During the past decade, more than 12,000 student IC designs were fabricated and 53,000 students have participated in the U.S. program

Keywords

VLSI; electronic engineering education; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit technology; student experiments; DARPA; Educational Program; IC fabrication technologies; MEP; MOSIS Service; VLSI; multiproject wafer concept; student IC designs; Circuit testing; Computer architecture; Costs; Educational programs; Electronics industry; Fabrication; History; Job shop scheduling; Prototypes; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Design, Test and Applications, 2002. Proceedings. The First IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Christchurch

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1453-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DELTA.2002.994612

Filename

994612