MOSIS
MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service) is
Operated by the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI), MOSIS combines customers' orders onto shared multi-project wafers that speed production and reduce costs compared with underutilized single-project wafers. Customers are able to debug and adjust designs, or to commission small-volume runs, without making major production investments. Fabrication costs are also shared by combining multiple designs from a single customer onto one "mask set," or wafer template. According to MOSIS, the service has delivered more than 60,000 integrated circuit designs.[1]
MOSIS was created in 1981 by ISI's
Many early MOSIS users were students trying IC layout techniques from the seminal book Introduction to VLSI Design (
(1987) were run through MOSIS during their early design and testing phases.See also
- Mead and Conway revolution
References
- ^ "MOSIS".
- ^ "Danny Cohen Engineered the Internet to Take Flight". Wired.
- ^ "Lynn's Story". Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Information Sciences Institute - Timeline". Archived from the original on 2013-11-26.
- ^ "USC Viterbi School of Engineering : MOSIS Turns 25". Archived from the original on 2006-09-01.
- ^ "Winners' Circle: Carver Mead". Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2005-04-28.
- ^ "M.I.T. VLSI Systems Design Class". Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "IEEE History Center - Lynn Conway". 2003-01-02. Archived from the original on 2006-06-18. Retrieved 2004-05-18.
External links
- MOSIS web site
- foveon.com - Foveon - Executive Profiles (archived from 2005)