A Fast Turn-Around Facility for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI)
This project is to establish, within a university research environment, a facility for the rapid execution of mask generation, wafer fabrication, and functional testing of user- generated custom I.C. designs.
Abstract
Abstract : In order to appreciate the critical hardware and software problems associated with the definition and design of very large scale integrated circuits or integrated systems including 10 to the 4th power - 10 to the 6th power transistors in a single silicon ship, incisive experiments conducted with actual operating chips are indispensible. The objective of this project is to establish, within a university research environment, a facility for the rapid execution of mask generation, wafer fabrication, and functional testing of user- generated custom I.C. designs.