Under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, eleven participants from universities and industry and seven individuals from the NSF met during October 18-19, 1993, to assess the unique needs educators have for rapid prototyping of microelectronic systems and to suggest potential solutions for continuously improving the state-of-the-art in U.S. universities. The following vision statement was adopted: Educate students who can use the paradigm of design, simulate, design-for-test, build and test (as opposed to just design, build and test) to create microelectronic systems, not just integrated circuits tiCs), of sufficient quality that the global competitiveness of U.S. industry will be continued and enhanced. From this statement a number of findings and recommendations were made. Some of these include: (1) Student projects should be simulated thoroughly prior to submission to MOSIS for fabrication. (2) The use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to support logic design and systems-oriented courses should be encouraged. (3) Fabrication services provided by MOSIS should be used largely for designs in which some portion has been performed manually. (4) NSF support for advanced classes should be broadened to include not only IC fabrication via MOSIS but also the acquistion of prototyping boards or multi-chip modules (MCMs) (5) Remote access via the Internet to expensive testers and prototyping systems should be made available. (6) MOSIS should add the following services: BiCMOS process, microelectro-mechanical post-processing, optoelectronic device fabrication and MCM prototyping. (7) A national clearinghouse should be supported to provide ready access by the educational community to existing and rapidly emerging resources that are presently dispersed. (8) Conferences, faculty enhancement short courses and newsletters should be supported to encourage widespread exchange of information.
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Report of the 1993 workshop on rapid prototyping of microelectronic systems for universities
Allen, Phil; Brglez, Franc; Carter, Hal; Caverly, Robert; Dillion, Jerry; Lo, Albert; Lomax, Ron; Oldfield, John; Pina, Cesar; Wilkinson, T. J.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 1994
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