In everyday life, we are surrounded by devices such as computers, calculators, watches, devices, appliances and even automobiles that have something in common: inside there are multiple electronic circuits that allow their proper functioning.
Currently, this technology is used by industries interested in sensing their products and processes, such as mechanics, automotive, aeronautics, and medicine, among others. However, the development of this technology requires large investments in infrastructure, highly sophisticated laboratories and highly specialized personnel.
Therefore, to respond to the technological requirements of industries, stimulate design and manufacturing,
the Center for Engineering and Industrial Development (Cidesi) promotes the design and manufacture of integrated circuits nationwide, through the Multiproject Wafer Service initiative. (SOMP), with the aim of catapulting manufacturing, scientific knowledge, specialized training and the offer of services to companies.
Project Mexican design and technology in electronics and integrated circuits
The Multiproject Wafer (MPW) concept emerged in the 1970s to help companies and researchers create silicon prototypes and demonstrate their work. It was the early days of the semiconductor industry, when companies like Fairchild, IBM, and others applied this technological innovation to create smaller, faster, and cheaper chips. Back then, the Multiproject Wafer played a key role in shortening time to market and reducing non-recurring engineering costs.
Cidesi's pilot project, aimed at design and manufacturing professionals, offers the manufacture of integrated circuits, using NMOS and CMOS technologies in multiproject wafers, with low manufacturing cost, to those interested in registering their projects. In addition, a Webinar platform is offered to provide training on the implementation of the “process design kit” (PDK) for free access software aimed at students and academic staff, which due to the current contingency measures and the restrictions on companies, they do not have access to licensed tools.
The Oblea Multiproyecto initiative began at the end of 2019. One of the objectives is to make known, through the platform
http://www.obleamultiproyecto.com/, the capabilities of Cidesi, in addition to making visits to different public institutions that have groups of design, such as the University of Guadalajara (U de G), the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), and the Technological Institute and Higher Studies of the West (ITESO), where it is proposed designers present their projects at no cost.
According to the director of Microtechnologies at Cidesi, Dr. Jesús Israel Mejía Silva, the idea is to integrate an audience and market validation based on the public and private interest to catapult these technologies in the semiconductor area.
"The call has the purpose of promoting designs focused on different sectors and we do the manufacturing, as long as they adhere to the rules that we previously send them through a process design kit (PDK). The use or application depends exclusively on the designers. We are inviting you to submit your projects and sign a collaboration agreement where intellectual property is specified and protected. On the other hand, as Cidesi is assuming the cost of manufacturing the wafers, we invite you to assume the commitment that your designs do not have commercial purposes.
Thousands of circuits in square millimeters
The silicon wafers manufactured at Cidesi are four inches in diameter, where thousands of integrated circuits can be inserted in a square millimeter, which determines the business model in this technology required today by important industries in the medical sectors. , mechanical, aeronautical among others, for their automation processes.
This project of the Directorate of Microtechnologies of Cidesi, headed by Dr. Jesús Israel Mejía Silva, has the support of the Institutional Fund for Regional Promotion for Scientific, Technological and Innovation Development (Fordecyt) of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt ), in addition to the collaboration of institutions such as the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), the Center for Research in Advanced Materials (Cimav ), among others.
On the other hand, the Center for Engineering and Industrial Development is the only institution in Mexico with the complete infrastructure for the design and manufacture of
integrated circuits, where a class 100 and 1,000 clean room stands out, oriented to the development and microfabrication of electronic devices for the public sector –in safety, health and energy issues–, while with the private sector it works with the aeronautical and automotive industries and household appliances interested in sensorization for data analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning and information on trends.
En la vida cotidiana, estamos rodeados de aparatos como computadoras, calculadoras, relojes, dispositivos, electrodomésticos y hasta automóviles que tienen algo en común: en su interior se encuentran múltiples circuitos electrónicos que permiten su adecuado funcionamiento. Actualmente, esta tecn...
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