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I am a Student, How can I get my chip fabricated

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Dear edaboardians

I am an Electrical Engineering student

Its now my final year graduation project

it is in designing ASIC

I finally determined the application to be done

but the BIG PROBLEM now is

how can I get my chip fabricated

In another way, Does any of the foundries like "TSMC , AMS , UMC , ......"
has an educational program such that it can fabricate chips for students free of charge or even with low cost

and how can I get the Technology Files "HIT-KITS"

please tell me

thanks
 

which is your university? you can use imec multi-wafer project option. you can book a small wafer area on there multi-wafer project. the cost is quite less. your university subscription should work out to be very cheep. let me know if you need more help.
i can help you in setting up the kit.

hit-kit is from Austria micro System which is also part of imec initiative.
other option is mosis.
hock
 

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If you had MOSIS access I think you would know about it. Schools spend a lot of money on this kind of thing.
 

I work for a university doing research, and we have chips fabricated on an educational multi project wafers through europractice with fraunhoffer (AMS process mostly). There is minimum size restriction etc, so there is a minimum cost - I'm not sure how the exchange rate is at the moment but I would say that the very cheapest you'll get is around £7000 for a single fabrication run. You'll get about 20 packaged chips for that. You'll have to pay for the packaging aswell of course.
Unless you have a reasearch grant to fund this, I can't imagine any uni paying for this - good luck trying though.

Nick
 

students projects will be fabricated with free of cost if u send the gdsII to the foundary
 

Old Nick said:
I work for a university doing research, and we have chips fabricated on an educational multi project wafers through europractice with fraunhoffer (AMS process mostly). There is minimum size restriction etc, so there is a minimum cost - I'm not sure how the exchange rate is at the moment but I would say that the very cheapest you'll get is around £7000 for a single fabrication run. You'll get about 20 packaged chips for that. You'll have to pay for the packaging aswell of course.
Unless you have a reasearch grant to fund this, I can't imagine any uni paying for this - good luck trying though.

Nick
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the mini@sic will be a more cheaper option as compare to mpw for student project at europractice (within EU)
 

madhavisai said:
students projects will be fabricated with free of cost if u send the gdsII to the foundary
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really? Which foundry?
 

Old Nick said:
madhavisai said:
students projects will be fabricated with free of cost if u send the gdsII to the foundary
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really? Which foundry?
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I doubt this exists
 

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