The Integrated Circuit Design Platform, located in MINATEC’s Advanced Components Building, boasts a team of 130 specialists working on the design of digital, analog, mixed, and RF circuits on bulk silicon and SOI.
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The platform has a complete range of professional CAD tools like Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, and Agilent, as well as testing and characterization resources. It has an annual operating budget of €14.3 million.
The platform’s size and equipment make it the largest design center of its kind in Europe. It boasts world-class expertise in System on Chip (SoC) architectures, RF circuits and architectures, analog and mixed circuits and architectures for imaging circuits and sensor interfaces, thin SOI transistors, and new MOS and 3D assembly concepts.
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The platform’s activities include working with MINATEC labs and partners from industry as well as participating in research programs sponsored by ANR (the French National Research Agency), AII (the French National Industrial Innovation Agency), Eureka, FP7 (the EU Seventh Framework Programme), and competitive clusters. Some of these projects require the work of more than ten researchers per year for up to two years.
The circuits designed have a wide variety of applications in industries like telecommunications, automobile, multimedia, healthcare, and defense.
Contact: jean-rene.lequepeys@cea.fr
