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Description of the Participants
IMEC v.z.w (IMEC)
Areas of work:
IMEC is the largest independent microelectronics research institute in Europe, employing 1000 people. Key areas covered are Process Technology development for IC and microsystems and research in design methodology for complex SOC, mainly for telecom and multimedia.
INVOMEC (industrial training in microelectronics) is the training division of IMEC.
Expertise and experience of the organisation:
IMEC has group of 100+ engineers developing complex SOC in the domains of telecom and multimedia. A lot of research is being done on design methodology, leading to new-generation EDA tools. Since 20 years, a lot of these tools have been transferred into EDA companies:
Silvar Lisco, Frontier Design, CoWare, Retarget Compiler Systems.
The Microelectronics Training Center organizes courses in design methodology, with an important emphasis on the transfer of recent research results in this domain to industry. The MTC draws upon experience in training for industry and teaching staff of polytechnic
schools and universities since 1983. For training, the MTC draws upon a pool of active senior designers, upon the pool of researchers active in the domain of design methodology research (among others: Hugo De Man, Ivo Bolsens, Francky Catthoor, …), and upon external
expertise.
INVOMEC was one of the key partners in the EUROCHIP project, and still is the prime contractor organizing all IC manufacturing in the EUROPRACTICE: (500+ circuits per year, 100+ product in small volume production).
Activities and interest in ANTITESYS:
The only mission of the Microelectronics Training Center is to provide training in microelectronics, covering both process technology and design. In the framework of Antitesys, t will mainly offer kernel courses in the design methodology used to develop complex SOC.
Main course topics covered will be:
Many of the course kernels will be in cooperation with IMEC's spin-off companies offering it's new-generation EDA tools in the market: these companies are Frontier Design, CoWare and Retarget Compiler Systems and in cooperation with EONIC Systems, offering a
multiprocessor, real-time development environment.
IMEC's spin-off companies Frontier Design and CoWare were at the basis of the newly emerging SystemC standard, together with Synopsys.
The course kernels will be optimized and tuned for the multimedia and the telecom application domains.
The MTC's interest is to strengthen its training portfolio, and to expand its base of teacher-engineers. Currently, the scope of its training activities is limited by the availability of researchers for training.
Previous research experience:
Since it's start, IMEC has had a strong research activity in the domain of the development of complex microelectronic systems. This has lead to a wide variety of new-generation of EDA-tools. A list of tools coming out of this research are the Cathedral family of
Silicon compilers, Mentor Graphics Mistral tools, Frontier Design's A|RT tools, CoWare's N2C tool. Object oriented design methodology is being developed - OCAPI - and SystemC is being defined by 2 of IMEC's spin-off companies in the founding group, together with Synopsys.
MTC has an experience in training in the domain of electronic design methodology since 1983.
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CVs of key persons
Bart De Mey graduated in Exact Sciences at the university of Antwerp in 1978. His major was on SSPE (subacute sclerosing panecephalitis) a disease with similarities to kuru, scrapies, Kreutzfeld-Jacob and nowadays BSE, using technologies such as RIA (radio-immuno-assays),
ELISA (enzyme-linked-immuno-saturation-assays) and related immuno-based techniques.
For 6 years he was a researcher in the domain of electromyography and visual light and X-ray movement analysis. He was involved in:
His involvement with software programming started with assembler for Z80, I8086. I80186, and continued with higher languages fortran, pascal, modula, lisp, and c++.
Since 1983 he is in charge of a microelectronic training network supporting the electronic education in 13 polytechnic schools and 3 universities. This activity was the basis of the Eurochip and now the European Europractice networks.
In 1984 he started a low-cost multi-project wafer service, that since then evolved into the Europractice IC manufacturing service.
In 1985 he started an ASIC design team, designing and manufacturing several 10s of circuits covering biomedical implants and industrial, telecom and space application domains, serving a.o. Alcatel, Phillips, Siemens, OIP, Deutsche Aerospace, National Semiconductors and
many European, American and Mid and Far East customers.
He was in charge of two studies on how to cope with radiation damage, both total dose effects, and single event phenomena, as subcontractor to Matra-Marconi Space, now Astrium. This activity resulted in the development of a 180 nm CMOS, radiation hardened cell library,
that could be the development base for many future on-board electronics.
In 1995 he started a deep sub-micron layout service with an average tape-out of 15 circuits per year with complexities up to half a million gates for customers in Europe, Northern America and the Far East.
In 1999, he was assigned as manager of the micro-electronics training centre. The first year, 25000 personhours were delivered to over 625 atttendees (50% industry, 35% imec, 15% Flemisch academia).
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