Shanghai launches new chip streaming service model

This report (Wu Guoying reporter Wang) expensive chip design streaming fee often let a part of small and medium-sized enterprises with innovative vitality.　　Reporter from January 21 Shanghai Integrated Circuit Technology and Industry Promotion Center sponsored by the "2009 MPW Annual Meeting" on the knowledge that a new service model multi-project wafer service, can reduce the cost of streaming film 90%-95%. "Flow Chip" is an essential link in the development of IC chip, which is used to verify the feasibility of new integrated circuit layout design. According to the Convention, different manufacturers design chips must be separate flow, the cost is high. The "Multi-project wafer" service, launched by Shanghai Integrated Circuit technology and Industry Promotion center, can be from different users, with the same process of a number of integrated circuit design together, at the same time the flow sheet processing, the cost by the user in accordance with the chip area allocation, for a single user, the cost of the original 10% or so.　　This not only greatly reduces the cost of the IC research and development phase, but also provides a relatively relaxed condition for the bold practice of IC design engineers. Shanghai Integrated Circuit Technology and Industry Promotion Center is the first to provide MPW splicing and remote logins of the public service platform, has provided the industry 9 years of MPW services, more than 300 customer service, more than 1500 services, the service area has covered 16 provinces and cities, including Hong Kong region. The ICC MPW Service platform has been innovated and developed in the development mode, service mode and government guidance mode, which has played an important role in the development of IC design industry in Shanghai area. Shanghai area's IC design industry output value from 2001 260 million yuan development to 2008 4.4 billion yuan, the design enterprise from 2001 17 development to 2008 's 160.