Low cost IC prototyping from the MOSIS Service

Author

Piña, César

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Sci., Univ. of Southern California, CA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California established the MOSIS Service in I981 in response to a request from DARPA to provide access to advanced IC technologies for their research community. This effort was expanded in 1985 by a joint effort between DARPA and NSF to include the submission of designs from University classes in VLSI design. Both DARPA and NSF provided funding for fabrication of these educational designs from 1985 through 1995. The funding situation changed significantly in 1994 as a result of the shrinking Federal budget. At this time, DARPA withdrew from the educational program, and NSF announced its planned withdrawal by 2000. The present status of the MOSIS Service, current technology offerings and packaging options as well as the status of the VLSI educational program are presented in this paper

Keywords

VLSI; educational courses; electronic engineering education; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit packaging; IC prototyping; MOSIS Service; USA; VLSI design education; advanced IC technologies; educational designs; educational program; packaging options; university classes; Ambient intelligence; CMOS process; Costs; Educational programs; Fabrication; Government; Packaging; Payloads; Prototypes; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronic Systems Education, 1999. MSE'99. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0312-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSE.1999.787008

Filename

787008