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Who Qualifies for Grants and Subsidies?
General Requirements
To be considered for an MEP grant or subsidy, the project must be
designed by students or faculty associated with an accredited
university.
A project sponsored or subsidized in whole or part by either a private
party or a government will not be eligible for MEP support.
Universities who received fabrication assistance under the MOSIS
educational program are required to send a report to MOSIS for each
student design submitted for fabrication.
Discount prices in the MEP-offered technologies are available for
projects and academic institutions that don't qualify for MEP grants.
Please see Projects That
Do Not Qualify for MEP Grants and Subsidies for details.
MEP Instructional Accounts
MEP Instructional accounts are only granted to a registered course
with the university for which the student receives a grade, has a
course curriculum, and finishes at the the end of the semester.
Instructional account submissions are usually no larger than
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2.2 µm x 2.2 µm for the AMIS ABN (1.50 micron) process, and
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1.50 µm x 1.50 µm for the AMIS C5 (0.50 micron) process
unless several students work together on a larger project.
The quantity of parts delivered is the minimum.
Instructional accounts are almost always for undergraduate work.
MEP Research Accounts
Work under MEP Research accounts result in a journal article, paper,
or thesis, may be ongoing beyond the end of a single semester, and is
usually supervised or directed research without the controls of a
specific curriculum.
The MOSIS Research program offers an opportunity to researchers
affilicated with a university to fabricate a design that otherwise
would not be fabricated.
As stated earlier, MOSIS revenues are derived entirely from commercial
operations. Because of the exponential growth in the MEP Research
program, MOSIS can no longer be the sole financial support of MEP
Research. Since there have been abuses of the initial intent of MEP
(support for unfunded research), we must receive written certification
that the project has no source of funding when MOSIS is asked to
subsidize the entire cost of fabrication.
MOSIS will subsidize the fabrication costs of one chip per university
(or per university campus, in the case of state universities with
multiple campuses) per year¹, with a chip area not to exceed 16
square millimeters.
This free chip fabrication will require a MEP Research proposal along
with a letter from the Dean certifying that the research work is not
funded.
Fabrication of this free chip will be provided on a "space available"
basis which means that MOSIS can not guarantee fabrication on the
schedule selected by the applicant.
The cost of packaging is separate and not included for MEP Research
projects. To request some or all of your parts be packaged, send a
purchase order in the amount to cover the cost of packaging. See the
MOSIS Web site for packaging and
assembly guidelines, packaging prices,
and purchase order
instructions.
University participants requiring fabrication of VLSI devices beyond
the above limits may use a university discounted price for
fabrication. Be sure to include your MEP account number when you
submit your Custom Price Quote
Request. Of course, as with a commercial account there are no
restrictions on the total area used or the number of projects
fabricated.
1 The term annual refers to the academic year which
starts on October 1 and ends September 30.
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Related Links
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MOSIS Educational Program FAQ
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