Annual report 2000 - Europractice

ASIC prototypes
and small volumes :
A total solution
EUROPRACTICE provides semiconductor
and system companies
with a total ASIC solution including
flexible access to silicon prototyping
and production at leading
foundries, integrated design flows
with cell libraries and support,
deep submicron netlist-to-layout
services, packaging and test. Customers
can participate to multiproject
and dedicated fabrication runs
for logic and mixed-signal processes.
In 2001, the service includes
access to 0.25, 0.18 and 0.13 micron
processes.
ASIC design services
EUROPRACTICE has teamed up
with several design houses, mainly
in Europe, who are helping us in
our objective to offer a complete
solution from product concept to
mass production of ASICs by
handling the design phase.
Through the EUROPRACTICE Alliance
Partners you have access to:
CMOS image sensor with 6.6 megapixels of digital photography (By courtesy of IMEC).
• design assistance in various specialised
topics such as low power,
RF, high voltage etc. depending
on the experience of the design
houses
• design interfaces at different levels,
depending on the capabilities
of the customers, ranging from
turn key design to layout generation
IC SERVICE ALLIANCE PARTNER
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