The University of Cantabria (UC) joins the Spanish Semiconductor Industry Association (AESEMI), thus advancing the objective of unifying and strengthening the ecosystem.
In the field of semiconductors, the University of Cantabria (UC) has the Chip Cantabria Chair, which is the meeting point between the company and the university in the field of microelectronic design. Sponsored by the company ACORDE, the Chair is based on the experience of its Research Groups: The Microelectronics Engineering Group, the Microwave and Radiocommunication Systems Engineering Group, the Radiofrequency and Microwave Group and the Computer Architecture and Technology Group (ATC). The first three started in the 1980s one of the first activities that existed in the country in the area of Microelectronics, both in the design of integrated circuits and MMICs. The GIM participated, from its beginning in 1989, in the EUROCHIP Project: VLSI Design Action of the ESPRIT Programme, being one of the five Spanish universities that was a participating institution (PI). Subsequently, it participated in two projects of the GAME programme. Since 2010, UC has been a member of all the European associations linked to research in embedded electronic systems, such as ENIAC, ARTEMIS/AENEAS and, now, INSIDE/AENEAS. The Groups have maintained their research and industrial collaboration activities in embedded systems design and MMICs to the present day. For its part, the ATC Group maintains a long-standing expertise in advanced architectures, currently based on RISC-V.
Based on this experience, the Chip Cantabria Chair aims to reinforce advanced training, research, technology transfer and industrial collaboration activities in RISC-V based Integrated Systems Design, Analogue and MEMS Design and MMICs Design.
AESEMI represents the main Spanish companies dedicated to microelectronic design and semiconductor manufacturing. The association’s objectives include promoting the sector at national and international level, giving visibility to all the companies that form part of the Spanish semiconductor and microelectronics technology ecosystem, as well as acting as an interlocutor with the rest of the agents.
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