A resident of SEZ Technopolis Moscow, the company Mikron will become the first semiconductor factory in the country that will produce student developments of microcircuits in the format of multi-project batches. The interuniversity design center of MIET will coordinate the processes. This was announced by the Head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy, Vladislav Ovchinsky. The multi-Project batch format (Multi-Project Wafer, MPW) is a variant of microelectronic production, when several different integrated circuits developed by different teams are manufactured simultaneously on one semiconductor wafer. "Currently, MIET, in cooperation with SEZ Technopolis Moscow and the Association of Universities on Electronic Component Base, is organizing an MPW service to create new samples of electronic component base developed by small scientific groups and students. The collective production of prototypes, prototypes and small series of integrated circuits on one plate allows us to repeatedly reduce the cost of the necessary samples for each scientific group," said Vladislav Ovchinsky. MPW services are widely used in the world's leading universities for personnel training. The arrangement of several different projects on a single substrate allows you to obtain several samples of integrated circuits for each project at a time. This amount is sufficient for research and testing. "This will help to give the microelectronic industry prototypes of an electronic component base, which in the future enterprises of the real sector of the economy will be able to transfer to mass production. The collection of projects and the organization of the technological route on the part of MIET will be carried out by the Center for Collective Design of electronic component base and electronic equipment. Today, 17 high–tech enterprises are located at the MIET site of the Moscow SEZ, 15 of them work in the field of microelectronics, optics, robotics and industrial automation," said Gennady Degtev, CEO of SEZ Technopolis Moscow. The first collection of student projects and the training launch of production are scheduled for early 2023. For the first launch, the CMOS-180nm technology was selected, which is optimal for all products that are supposed to be manufactured. The purpose of the first stage of the program is to work out possible scenarios of interaction, organizational, technical and technological aspects. "The production of chips is an expensive process, so several dozen projects of Russian universities consolidated by MIET will be placed on one plate. This is a non-profit project aimed at training developers who are able to work with our technical processes and identifying promising startups. The development of the production of our plant will require hundreds of such specialists throughout Russia. During the project, Mikron and MIET are counting on the formation of a university-wide database of IP blocks and developments on the terms of codes open to participants," said Karina Abagyan, Director for Strategic Development of Mikron. As Alexey Pereverzev, Vice-Rector for Innovative Development, explained, MIET acts as the basis of an ecosystem linking science and education with production for accelerated conversion of scientific research into specific market products. It is planned that at least one launch per year with 16-20 integrated circuit designs will be carried out on the basis of the MPW service. As the first projects, it is planned to manufacture microcontrollers built on the basis of the RISC-V open architecture, power amplifiers, phase-locked frequency blocks, modulators and demodulators of radio signals, basic microwave elements for modern communication systems. ________________________________________ Press service of the SEZ "Technopolis Moscow" Phone: +7 916 516-15-46 Mail: pr@technomoscow.ru [ mailto:pr@technomoscow.ru ] Subscribe to the SEZ "Technopolis Moscow" in social networks, follow the main news of the SEZ in telegram-channel [ https://t.me/technopolismoscow ] and receive all the most important news delivered to your mail in our weekly newsletter [ http://events.technomoscow.ru/subscribe/?utm_source=site_technomoscow ] .
