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|         Updated Prices and MPC schedule for low cost prototyping        |
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What is EUROCHIP ?
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EUROCHIP is a service organisation offering CAD tools and MPW prototype
fabrication to all universities and polytechnics in Europe.
Today about 400 universities are member of EUROCHIP and are using the 
CAD tools and MPW prototype services.

CAD tools offered to the universities at highly reduced cost for educational
use are : Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Genrad, H-Spice (Meta-Soft),
Xilinx, Altera.  All run on workstations.  Today EUROCHIP is also offering
CAD tools on PC (under Windows).  Only EUROPEAN universities can buy these 
CAD tools.

EUROCHIP offers also Multi Project Chip Prototype fabrication in many 
technologies and many submission dates.  This MPW service started in
1989 on a European scale for the universities, it is ALSO OPEN TO
INDUSTRY.

The European universities can benefit for educational designs from
special prices.  For industrial designs, the INDUSTRIAL price is
applicable.

Also some small volume fabrication can be offered through MPW or
directly with contacts to the foundries.

Hereby the pricelist and schedule of the MPC runs.


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EUROCHIP - NEW PRICELIST for MPW runs
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New doc F003v16 available - is sent to all EUROCHIP members now.

Hereby the electronic form

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EUROCHIP
Service Organisation                  Document    Revision    Date
CMP,CNM,DTH,GMD,IMEC,RAL               F003         16      15 March 95

Title : SCHEDULE OF EUROCHIP MPC RUNS           Author : C. DAS EUROCHIP
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EUROCHIP is announcing its MPW schedule until the end of September 1995.  The 
EUROCHIP contract with the EU is extended until 30 September 1995.  Discussions 
are ongoing with the EU to ensure a smooth transition from the current EUROCHIP 
services into the new project, called EURO-PRACTICE.
EUROCHIP is happy to announce that already more than 2200 IC designs have been 
submitted to the EUROCHIP MPW runs for fabrication.  About 2120 IC designs have 
been submitted by academia as educational designs, 60 designs have been 
submitted by industry and the remaining 20 designs have been submitted for small 
volume fabrication.



General information
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Universities and companies must send in their designs to the Service Centers 
before the closing date of MPW run.
The area in mm2 is the area of the rectangle around the circuit as it will be 
fabricated.
EUROCHIP reserves the right to postpone the fabrication to the next run, if not 
enough designs have been submitted.

Central & Eastern Countries
===========================

For educational designs from universities in C&E countries, free MPW fabrication 
is offered through the EUROEAST project.  Contact EUROCHIP for details.

ES2 1.0 �m for COMPASS designs
==============================
Circuits designed with COMPASS software using the COMPASS or ES2 design kits are 
fabricated by ES2 on a 1.0ʵm CMOS technology that is different from the 
standard ECPD10 technology offered by EUROCHIP for MPW fabrication.
Due to several requests EUROCHIP received from COMPASS users, EUROCHIP installed 
an ES2 1.0 �m CMOS MPW service specially for COMPASS designs.

Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden
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Universities, being EUROCHIP member, from Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden can 
benefit from the EU-subsidised prices for MPW fabrication of educational and 
research designs since 1�October 1994.


AMS MPW runs
============

EUROCHIP started offering AMS prototyping by submitting the designs on the AMS 
scheduled MPW runs.  Since the number of designs submitted in AMS technologies 
has been growing, EUROCHIP has now started to submit its own MPW runs to AMS.


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This year more than 60 MPW runs scheduled !
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Commercial use

The EUROCHIP MPW service is open for industrial design from universities, 
companies or design houses.  There are no restrictions for the 
technologies.  For small or high volumes afterwards, contact your EUROCHIP 
Service Center.


Small volume

EUROCHIP can provide you with quotations for small quantities.  Small 
quantities will be fabricated on MPW runs or directly at the foundry.
In some cases EUROCHIP can offer you tested parts (ex. ES2) and in other 
cases EUROCHIP can deliver you the silicon and provide you with addresses 
for testing and packaging (for ceramic and plastic).


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	           Prices in ECU/mm2.
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1 ECU is about 1.15 US dollar depending on the rate of the day.

                                                 G1     G2    G4
                                                ---    ---  ----

ES2  1.5 �m CMOS DM                              30     90   100

ES2  1 �m CMOS DM (stand. design)                50    145   160

ES2 1 �m CMOS DM (Compass design)                60    145   160
on MPW runs.  For designs > 45 mm2 there
might be a delay possible due to technical
issues.  If no delay can be accepted or
if you want to have fabrication any time
EUROCHIP can offer you a personal run

ES2 1 �m CMOS DM (Compass design)                80    220   235
on personal runs (> 45 mm2)
There is an extra fixed cost of 3800 ECU

ES2 0.7 �m CMOS DM                               65    190   200
(min cost : is cost for 10 mm2)

MIETEC  2 �m CMOS DP, DM                         30    115   140

MIETEC  0.7 �m CMOS Poly/dif capa +DM           130    330   360
minim cost for G1 = 1250 ECU per design
minim cost for G2 = 3170 ECU per design
minim cost for G4 = 3560 ECU per design

AMS  1.2 �m CMOS DP, DM                         100    265   285
AMS  0.8 �m CMOS DM                             100    265   285
AMS  1.2 �m BICMOS                              160    425   445
for all AMS technologies :
max. area is 30 mm2 and
minim cost for G1 = 720 ECU per design
minim cost for G2 and G4 = 2140 ECU per design

SGS-THOMSON  2 �m BICMOS                        320    850   910

MIETEC 3 �m High Voltage BICMOS                 160    425   445

GEC-Marconi MMIC GaAs                           250    650   730

FhG/IAF  0.3 �m HEMT GaAs                       430   1075  1160

Categories
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Category G1 : EU Subsidised Educational Price

Academia from the following countries, being EUROCHIP Member, can submit designs 
for educational purposes only at the EU Subsidised Educational Price.: Austria, 
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, 
The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Category G2 : Non-EU Educational Price

Academia, being EUROCHIP Member, from European countries not listed under 
category�1 can submit designs for educational purposes only at the non-EU 
Subsidised Educational Price.

Category G4 : Industrial Price

This price applies to the fabrication of :
 - designs from Academia in European countries that are not EUROCHIP Member
 - designs from Academia in non-European countries
 - designs from Research Centers, Industry and particularly SMEs 
 - industrial designs from EUROCHIP Academic Members

MPW schedule
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CMOS single poly, double metal
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ES2 1.5 �m CMOS
ECPD15
Turn around time : 11 wks
15 May 95

ES2 1.0 �m CMOS - standard designs
ECPD10
Turn around time : 11 wks
1 March 95
3 April 95
2 May 95
1 June 95
3 July 95
4 September 95

ES2 1.0 �m CMOS - COMPASS designs
ECPD10
Turn around time : 11 wks
20 March 95
2 May 95
28 June 95

ES2 0.7 �m CMOS DM
ECPD07
Turn around time : 11 wks
10 April 95
15 June 95
18 September 95

AMS 0.8 �m CMOS
CYB
Turn around time : 11 wks
2 May 95
28 August 95

GaAs technology
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GEC-MARCONI - F20 GaAs 0.5 �m MESFET MMIC technology
Turn around time : 16 wks
2 may 95

FhG/IAF - 0.3 �m HEMT GaAs
Turn around time : 14 wks
15 June 95


CMOS poly-capacitor, double metal
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MIETEC ALCATEL - 2 �m CMOS
MTC2010
Turn around time : 11 wks
27 March 95
15 May 95
3 July 95
4 September 95

MIETEC ALCATEL - 0.7 �m CMOS
C07A
Turn around time : 12 wks	
18 April 95
19 June 95
21 August 95

AMS - 1.2 �m CMOS
CAE
Turn around time : 11 wks
9 May 95
8 August 95

BiCMOS technology
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AMS - 1.2 �m BiCMOS
BAE
Turn around time : 13 wks
18 April 95
1 July 95

MIETEC ALCATEL - 2 �m HBIMOS (100 V)
Turn around time : 12 wks
15 March 95
15 May 95
15 August 95

SGS-THOMSON - 2 �m BiCMOS
HF2CMOS
Turn around time : 14 wks
15 May 95 (SC)
6 June 95 (FC)


Note
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The ES2 1.5 �m CMOS technology will be terminated and the last MPW run is 
scheduled on 15�May 1995.
The AMS MPW runs are either full EUROCHIP MPW runs or based on individual design 
submissions and scheduled together with AMS.
Turnaround times are typical and are based upon the EUROCHIP 4 years experience.  
They include design checking at the Service Centres, data preparation, 
processing, packaging and delivery. 
The cost for prototyping of a design on MPW runs is the price/mm2 times the area 
of the design (area of a rectangle around the designed circuit as it is 
fabricated, taking into account the shrink factor of 0.64 for MIETEC 2�m CMOS).

The number of prototypes that are delivered  depends  on the area of 
the designed circuit : 
10 prototypes for  area < 25 mm2 
20 prototypes for area between 25 and 50 mm2 
30  prototypes for area > 50 mm2 
For AMS and FhG/IAF designs, the number  of  prototypes is 10. 
The delivered prototypes are untested,  packaged or  unpackaged. 
For runs at SGS-THOMSON, 2 deadlines are  given  for standard cell 
designs and full custom designs.   Standard  cell designs have to be 
submitted 3 weeks  on beforehand to allow  EUROCHIP to do the place  
and route using Tancell software. SC =  Standard Cell designs FC = 
Full Custom designs

For more details : contact the EUROCHIP service centers


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|      Dr. Carl Das                    IMEC, division INVOMEC                  |
|      Chairman Foundry Working Group  EUROCHIP                                |
|      phone:  +32 16 281 248          Kapeldreef 75                           |
|      fax:    +32 16 281 584          B-3001 Leuven                           |
|      e-mail: das@imec.be             Belgium                                 |
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