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History of the program.
MOSIS Educational Program
A Brief History
The MOSIS Service has been conducting an educational program since 1986.
From 1986 to 1994, this program was jointly funded by DARPA and
NSF. In 1994, the DARPA funding for MOSIS and for the educational
program ended.
From 1994 until 1998 the educational program was funded jointly by NSF
and MOSIS. When the NSF funding ended in 1998, additional funding was
obtained from the SIA/SRC and some industrial firms to supplement the
MOSIS contribution. This additional funding ended in 2000.
Since 2000, the funding for the educational program has been provided
by MOSIS.
In an attempt to aid educational institutions in the development of
instructional and research programs in integrated circuits within
their engineering departments, MOSIS initiated the MOSIS Educational
Program (MEP). The MEP included an
instructional
component for support of scheduled classes in VLSI design to give
students a chance to experience the full cycle of VLSI design,
fabrication, and testing of an integrated circuit, and; a
research component
to support unfunded research conducted by graduate students and
faculty who needed to develop critical mass in their areas of research
in order to attract funding for future research. Both of these MEP
components were offered at no cost to the universities, with minimal
restrictions based on available MOSIS supported technologies and
fabrication scheduling.
The MOSIS Service does not receive funding from NSF or any other
government agency. MOSIS sole source of revenue is derived from its
commercial operations.
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