About EUROPRACTICE
EUROPRACTICE is a consortium of five renowned European research organizations, who support academic institutions and medium-sized companies with IC prototyping services, system integration solutions, training activities and possibilities for small volume production. In addition, we provide universities and research institutes with access to CAD tools.
The EUROPRACTICE Partners
The five EUROPRACTICE partners act as the prime interface between customers and technology providers. Each partner offers a unique set of services, such as granting customers access to particular design tool vendors, foundries, assembly and test houses.
EUROPRACTICE Design Tools and Training Courses
UK Research and Innovation, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
UKRI-STFC is one of Europe’s largest multi-disciplinary research organisations: It has over 1900 employees engaged in a wide range of scientific and technological research. The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is the largest of UKRI-STFC’s Research Institutes. It has 40 years of experience supporting Electronic System Design Automation tools and routes to fabrication for universities and enterprises.
Since 1995 UKRI-STFC has operated and managed the EUROPRACTICE Design Tool Services, currently supporting more than 600 academic institutions in 43 countries in the European region.
UKRI-STFC also leads the advanced design flow training activity within EUROPRACTICE.
EUROPRACTICE Board Members
Dr. Clive Holmes
Mark Willoughby
EUROPRACTICE MPW Service and Communications
Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum, Leuven, Belgium
imec, Europe’s largest independent micro-electronics research centre, founded in 1984 by the Flemish Government, is one of the largest in the world in the field of microelectronics. It brings together nearly 3500 researchers from all over the world to make the impossible possible in many application areas.
From 1995 until now, imec is responsible for the ASIC part of the EUROPRACTICE-IC service, organizing MPW runs in various advanced IC technologies ranging from X-FAB to TSMC. It also offers More-than-Moore technologies with a special focus on MEMS, photonics and microfluidics.
EUROPRACTICE board members
Dr. Romano Hoofman
Paul Malisse
EUROPRACTICE MPW Service
Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS, Erlangen, Germany
Fraunhofer is Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization. It employs a staff of more than 25000 and its research activities are conducted by 72 institutes and research units at locations throughout Germany. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS is a world leader in applied research, providing microelectronic and IT system solutions.
For EUROPRACTICE customers, Fraunhofer provides access to and support for Application-Specific Components. It is responsible for access and prototype fabrication in technologies from ams (Austria), GLOBALFOUNDRIES (Germany, Singapore) and IHP (Germany).
EUROPRACTICE board member
Thomas Drischel
EUROPRACTICE MPW Service and Business Development
CIME-P, Grenoble, France
CIME-P is a Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) service organization in ICs, Photonic & Smart Power ICs and MEMS for prototyping, as well as low volume production. CIME-P enables prototypes fabrication on industrial processes. It also offers its technical expertise in providing MPW and related services for universities, research laboratories and industrial companies.
CIME-P offers EUROPRACTICE customers access to MPW runs in advanced IC technologies from, among others, STMicroelectronics (France), ams (Austria) and EM Microelectronic (Switzerland). In addition, CIME-P is responsible for prototype fabrication in More-than-Moore technologies from STMicroelectronics (Italy), ams (Austria) and CEA-Leti (France).
EUROPRACTICE board member
Jeremy Perret
EUROPRACTICE System Integration
Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
Tyndall National Institute is Ireland’s largest research organization, which employs over 500 researchers and engineers. It collaborates with industry and academia to transform research into products in the core market areas of communications, energy, environment and health. The institute hosts full CMOS, MEMS and III-V fabrication facilities, as well as advanced integration and packaging facilities.
Tyndall provides EUROPRACTICE customers easy access to smart system integration and packaging services. The customers can therefore source the complete sub-system supply chain, from devices through to packaging and application prototyping.
EUROPRACTICE board member
Dr. Ramsey Selim