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This page contains the list off all project members together with the brief
description of the organization
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ARM Ltd is a world renowned
semiconductor IP company, whose most visible product is the ARM 32-bit
RISC Processor family. This CPU family is the most widely used
architecture in embedded systems today, with more than 1 billion
units/year being shipped in 2004, and with a projected growth of more
than 30%pa. Yet ARM does not manufacture any physical end product
itself, but licenses its CPU designs as Intellectual Property (IP) to
Design-Houses, FABs and OEMs for others to manufacture. It is reportedly
the architecture of choice for more than 80% of the high-performance
embedded products in design today.
ARM’s objective is to enable System
Houses to rapidly and accurately create viable System-on-Chip (SoC)
based products, complementary methods, standards and tools are an
important but less-visible part of our product offering. To achieve this
wider objective we have established a formal ARM Partnership community
of more than 200 of the leading Design EDA and FAB communities around
the world; and complemented this with initiation and participation in
applicable standards activities
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ST is one of the
world’s largest semiconductor companies, with net revenues of US$9.85
billion in 2006 and market leadership that is spread across many fields.
For example, according to the latest industry data, ST is the world’s
fifth largest semiconductor company and has leading positions in sales
of Analog Products, Analog Application Specific Integrated Circuits and
Analog Application Specific Standard Products. ST is also number one in
camera modules for mobile phones, number two in discretes and analog,
and number three in NOR Flash, as well as in the application segments of
Automotive, Industrial, and Wireless. ST is also the leading supplier of
semiconductors for set-top boxes and power management devices.
Furthermore, ST was the 3rd biggest semiconductor supplier in China in
2005.
ST has leading-edge
manufacturing facilities on four continents. In 300mm-wafer IC
manufacturing, ST operates a 300mm pilot line called Crolles2, to
develop leading-edge CMOS process technology down to the 32nm node, in
conjunction with TSMC for process alignment.
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IMEC is one of the largest independent research
organizations worldwide in the domain of Microelectronics. Its main
interests are (1) silicon processing technology (2) digital design
methodology and (3) mixed design and heterogeneous integration. In (2)
a group is since 2001 working on Technology Aware Design.
Since 2001 IMEC pioneers the domain of “technology
aware design” (TAD), which bridges the gap between design and
technology. This gap has become prevailing due to the anomalies that
appeared due to the scaling. IMEC’s TAD group searches for analysis
techniques and solutions techniques to tackle challenges posed by
technology induced variability and reliability effects. IMEC
contributes and commits to the project its background in Variability
Aware Modeling and Standardized Knobs and monitors. See also
www.imec.be/tad .
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MICAS (Microelectronics and Sensors) is a
division of the
Department of Electrotechnical
Engineering at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium, Europe. The group consists of 5 professors, 30+ Ph.D.
researchers and 12 persons for
administrative and logistic support and services. About 75 % of all
research is supported by industry. The mission of MICAS is to provide
research and
education in the field of
analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuit and sensor
design at the highest possible scientific level and with worldwide
international recognition. All aspects of analog/RF, digital and
mixed-signal IC and sensor design are covered. On the one end software
(CAD) methods and tools are developed to solve circuit design problems
and to increase the productivity of designers. On the other end advanced
analog, RF, digital and mixed analog-digital IC designs are carried out
to push the performance limits in application fields such as
telecommunications, automotive, consumer electronics, biomedical systems
and sensor interfaces. In addition, mechanical (MEMS) and chemical
sensors can be added on-chip and are realized in MICAS' own
laboratories. Education in micro- and nano-electronics is provided at
M.Sc. level and at Ph.D. level. Moreover, numerous design courses are
given to industries worldwide.
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The University of Bologna (UNIBO), created in 1088,
is recognized as the oldest university in the western world, and one of
the largest in Italy (with more than 100,000 enrolled students). It is
one of most active Italian universities in research and technology
transfer. At European level, the University is partner in more than 150
EU projects in FP5 and FP6.
The UNIBO research group participating in the
network is the Micrel Lab (www-micrel.deis.unibo.it). It belongs to the
Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS), which is
a research-led institute employing about 70 professors, 40 research
associates, 90 doctorate students, 40 graduated research assistants, and
several visiting researchers. The research activity of the Micrel Lab
group focuses on the design and deployment of embedded and mobile
systems, with special emphasis on energy-efficient multi-core platforms.
The group has been involved in several EU-funded research projects (EU
IST-SensactionAAL, AIST-ARTIST, IST-ARTIST2, ESPRIT-TTN Hipcom, National
PRIN 2005, regional projects LAICA and SUMMIT) and a number of
industrial cooperations (STMicroelectronics, Hewlett-Packard, Freescale
Semiconductors and others).
The University of Cagliari (UNICA), is one of the
largest in Italy (almost 40,000 enrolled students), and is extremely
active in research and technology transfer. The UniCa research group
participating in the network as UniBo subcontractor is the Embedded
Software Lab (es-lab.sc.unica.it) of the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science. The research activity of Embedded Software Lab focuses
on software and architectural solutions for embedded multiprocessors,
and it is involved in several industrial cooperations (Abbeynet, Reitek
and others).
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The Device Modeling Group, University of Glasgow
(UoG) is one of the largest specialized device modeling groups in
the Academia with 3 members of Academic staff, 2 Advanced EPSRC Research
Fellows, 9 postdoctoral researcher and 8 PhD students fully dedicated to
device modeling and simulation. The currently active research funding is
€9.6M including contributions from the Engineering and Physics Science
Research Council (UK), FP6 projects, collaborations and contracts with
Synopsys, IBM, Freescale, Toshiba, Sony, Fujitsu and NASA. Recently the
Group has enhanced its in house computing capabilities with a 100 CPU
AMD Opteron cluster and two 32 CPU IBM p690 SMP systems, and has a 20%
stake in the 240 dual core AMD Opteron University cluster for Grid
Computing.
The Group is the world leader in statistical 3D
simulation of advanced CMOS devices including different sources of
intrinsic parameter fluctuations. Members of the group have developed
unique in-house ‘atomistic’ drift diffusion, Monte Carlo and NEGF
quantum transport simulators for nano CMOS devices all of which include
sources of intrinsic parameter variations, and some of which will be
used in this project. Commercial TCAD simulators like Sentaurus from
Synopsys are routinely used in conjunction with these bespoke tools.
Expertise in compact model identification strategies in the presence of
statistical variability is also available in the group in connection to
BSIM3/4, BISIMSOI and PSP industry standard compact models
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Members