NETWORKING HOUSE

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Participarea in proiectele Europene
EUROPRACTICE and
REASON
Carmen Moldovan, IMT Bucuresti
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EUROPRACTICE

• Europractice is a European Union initiative to
  improve the competitiveness of European industry
  by the adoption of advanced electronics
  technologies.
• Europractice is open to industrial companies
  (especially SMEs), research institutes and
  academic users.

http//www.europractice.com
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EUROPRACTICE

• A complete service from idea to product by
  provision of
• Feasibility and proof of concept studies
• Prototyping and low volume production
• Access to large scale industrial manufacturing
  facilities
• Custom design
• Software
• Training

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EUROPRACTICE

• Europractice can deliver low risk, low cost and
  easy access to the latest competitive
  technologies, specifically
• Microsystems
• Training
• Integrated Circuits
• IC Microsystems Software

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MICROSYSTEMS
Manufacturers AMICUS-BOSCH MPW Other
ServicesAMICUS-HL-PLANARCEMEMS Detailed
InformationINTEGRAM Detailed InformationMAGSYS
Detailed InformationMEMSOI MPW Other
ServicesMultiMEMS MPW Other Services
Design House Competence Centres Liquid
HandlingMEDICS BIOMEDICAL DEVICESMicroactuator
Non-silicon CentreMOEMS CentreMST-DesignPhysi
cal Measurement SystemsPOLYMICRO - Polymer
Micron Optics
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MST Design
European Technology for Business Ltd.Codicote
Innovation Centre- CO St Albans Road, Codicote,
SG4 8UYUnited Kingdom Dr Diana Hodgins, Tel 4
4 1438 822817Fax [phone]Email enq_at_mst-
design.co.ukwww.mst-design.co.uk KBI
Commercial Ltd7 Pixholme Grove, DorkingSurrey
RH4 1PJUnited KingdomTel 44 (0) 1306 885
530Fax [phone]E-mail
rturner_at_kbic.co.ukWeb www.kbic.co.uk Plasma
Antennas Begbroke Business Science ParkSandy
Lane, Yarnton, OX5 1PF, United Kingdom Dr
Ruth HarperTel 44 1865 37310Email rh_at_plasmaan
tennas.comwww.plasmaantennas.com
IMECKapeldreef 75B-3001 LeuvenBelgium Dr
Andrew CampitelliTel 32 16 28 19 07Fax 32
16 28 10 97Email Andrew.Campitelli_at_imec.be Inst
itute of Electron Technology Al.Lotnikow 32/46
02-668 Warsaw Poland, Dr. Piotr Grabiec
IMT-Bucharest Erou Iancu Nicolae 32 B72225
Bucharest Romania Acad. Dan Dascalu Te 40 21
4908412 Fax [phone] Email
dascalu_at_imt.ro www.imt.ro
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MST Design
Is a partnership between complementary Design
Organisations across Europe. Our collective aim
is to increase the number of commercially
available systems using microsystem technology

• MST-Design Services
• Who is the service for?
• The aim of this Microsystems consortium of design
  engineering companies, is to assist those
  companies who clearly have an intention to
  develop new products and who will adopt
  Microsystems Technology (MST) where it is
  appropriate and advantageous to them to do so.
• What Services are provided?
• MST-Design will
• Respond to enquiries within forty eight hours
  and visit enquirers where this is agreed to be an
  appropriate course.
• Carry out company specified product designs
  leading to delivery of working prototypes
• Direct the linkage of prototype designs to
  volume production outlets within the EC.
• Provide a brokerage service where the
  application is possible but not within the scope
  of MST-Design.
• Provide a brochure and literature which
  describes what is on offer, including
  capablility/competance, service provision and
  example case studies.
• Establish a website comprising contact details,
  enquiry service, links to complementary EC pages,
  assisted funding opportunities, Non-disclosure
  guarantee.

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IMT in EUROPRACTICE
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IMT Offer

• Design and EM modelling of micromachined
  filters, antennae, receivers in the millimetre
  and sub-millimetre range
• Mask manufacturing
• Antenna chip manufacturing
• Modelling of THz receivers

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Micromachined Filters Supported on Thin GaAs
Membranes- White Ligth Interferometry Analysis
Millimeter Wave Filters for 38 and 77 GHz
obtained by micromachining of GaAs Design and
mask manufacturing was performed at IMT
Bucharest. Technological processes were
developed by the scientists of FORTH
Heraklion, together with the scientists from IMT
Bucharest in the FORTH labs. On wafer microwave
measurements at IRCOM Limoges. Micromechanical
characterization of the structures was developed
at Uppsala University
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1.                   IMT   Expertise   The
expertise is available to design, simulate,
perform the technological processes, characterize
and transfer to manufacturing in the following
areas   Microsystems for microwave and
millimeter-wave applications -         Millimeter
wave micromachined filters, supported on thin
dielectric membranes -         Millimeter wave
micromachined receiver structures, performed on
silicon as well as GaAs micromachined substrate
-         Antennas for millimeter wave,
performed on Silicon micromachined
substrate -         Micromachined front-ends,
in the millimeter wave range -         Tunable
MSW Straight Edge Rezonators in microwave range,
performed on silicon bulk and on silicon
micromachined membrane. Rezonating chip is made
of YIG thin film grown on GGG (gallium-gadolinium
garnet). The target applications are the
equipment for telecommunication, for Internet
(point to point transmission) and the electronic
equipment for car crash avoidance.  
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Microstructures and Microsystems for bio-medical
and environmental applications -         Gas
sensors -         Biosensors -        
Microelectrodes for recording neural
activity -         Polimeric sensitive layers
for chemical and biological sensors. -        
Pressure sensors Process development -        
Wet and Electrochemical Anisotropic Etching of
Silicon -         Silicon Wafer Bonding
-         Double side alignment -         Thin
layers deposition (Si3N4, SiON, Polysilicon, PSG,
BPSG, CVD) -         Immobilization technique of
enzyme on electrodic devices -         Spin
deposition of thin film sensitive
polymers -         Potentiometric
characterization of enzymatic membranes.
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Prototypes -         Test structures for
surface micromachining -         Electrodes for
biological sensors -         Microprobe for
recording of electrical activity of
cells. Nanostructures and nanotechnologies for
electrochemical and biological applications New
materials and nanostructures for life and
environment quality -         miniaturized cell
based on nanooelectrode arrays for pollution
control in liquid media -         biochips based
on nanooelectrode arrays for electrochemical
activity in biological media -         porous
silicon matrix for biomedical applications (drug
delivery tissue engineering) -         porous
silicon surface functionalisation for biomedical
applications -         porous silicon as support
for carbon nanotubes -         silicon
integrated magnetic microsensors (computer
simulation and design)
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New characterization methods of
nanostructures -         low-frequency noise
expertise in the domains of nanomaterials,
nanostructure and nanodevices, semiconductors,
semiconductor devices and metal films (especially
for discontinuous structures) -        
structural defect characterization by noise
measurements -         Low-frequency noise
spectroscopy -         Porous silicon
characterization Nanotechnologies
processes -         CVD processes for  thin
layers a-SiC, Si3N4 , Si CxNy and DLC layers
on silicon substrates (applications silicon
membrane fabrication for sensors silicon
emitters with field emission properties) -       
  Silicon nanostructured processes (applications
optoelectronic devices and biochips).  
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Computer Aided Design and Simulation -        
Computer aided design in the field of
microsystem -         Modeling and simulation
using finite element method (software
COVENTORWARE 2001 and ANSYS 5.4) Training and
consulting in the field -         Computer Aided
Engineering in the field of microsystem
covering -         structural analysis (static,
modal, buckling, harmonic and transient) -       
  thermal analysis (static, transient) -        
fluidic static analysis and acoustics -        
fluid dynamic analysis (laminar flow, turbulent
flow, compresible and incompresible
flow) -         first order chemical reactions,
MichaelisMenten reactions, equilibrum
reactions -         electric field
analysis -         magnetic field
analysis -         coupled field
anaysis -         Optoelectronics for optical
computing, optical communications and
optical/optoelectronic data storage -        
CAD and CAE for elastomer materials.  
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RESEARCH AND TRAINING ACTION FOR SYSTEM ON CHIP
DESIGN An IST project (IST - 2000 - 30193) of the
Fifth Framework Programme
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RESEARCH AND TRAINING ACTION FOR SYSTEM ON CHIP
DESIGN
PUB Activity in REASON PUB proposed 14 courses,
two special sessions, three workshops, two
tutorials, three shows and demonstrations
covering 11 of 13 workpackages of the project.
The courses are training courses , hands on
courses, and advanced courses and few of them use
new generation of CAD and MEMSCAD softwares and
cover the microelectronic design in
microelectronics and microsystems.
Romanian participants - Politehnica University
of Bucharest (PUB), - IMT Bucharest, - Centre
for New Electronics Architecture of Romanian
Academy

• The main objectives of the project are as
  follows
• Raising the level of awareness of industrial
  problems and the level of competencies among
  researchers in CEE in methodologies of
  system-on-chip design and test and analogue and
  mixed signal IC design for wireless
  communication, networking, and multimedia.
• 2. Strengthening of links between academic and
  industrial partners, in order to facilitate
  formulation of new RTD projects and formation of
  project consortia.
• 3. Maintaining and expanding the research
  infrastructure in the academic and research
  institutions of Central and Eastern Europe.
• 4. Knowledge transfer to the SMEs and raising the
  level of awareness of the IST programme, in order
  to facilitate participation of SMEs in FP5
  projects.

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Romanian courses held within the REASON project
(1)
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Romanian courses held within the REASON project
(2)
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Compact neural architectures with mixed-signal
implementation for reconfigurable computing and
on-chip intelligent signal processing Prof.
Radu DOGARU
Topics   1. Particularities of designing
compact yet highly functional intelligent systems
2. Projection tapes and orientation vectors
3. Canonical piecewise-linear discriminants and
their applications for designing adaptive Boolean
neurons 4. Multi-nested neurons. 5.
Stochastic algorithms for training multi-nested
neurons. 6. A nanotechnology implementation
solution using resonant tunneling diodes 7.
Simplicial neural cell mixed circuit
realizations 8. Applications of the simplicial
neural cell in intelligent signal processing 9.
Demonstration of multi-nested cell and simplicial
neural cell
? A novel approach, based on piecewise-linear
function approximations, for designing such
compact and VLSI-friendly neural systems.
The course will be specially prepared for REASON.
It is the synthetic result of a research carried
out by the author in the last 6 years and still
in development.
DATE October 7, 2002 October 9, 2002
FREQUENCY one-time event VENUE Sinaia,
Romania TARGET AUDIENCE PhD. students, engineers
from the industry
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Pictures from courses Compact neural
architectures with mixed-signal implementation
for reconfigurable computing and on-chip
intelligent signal processing
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Self-Organizing Systems Course for specialists in
microelectronics and VLSI design, PhD students
in microelectronics Dr. Monica DASCALU
Topics   Introduction to self-organization
basic concepts, examples Hints from nature how
to copy astonishing features Artificial
self-organization in computer models cellular
automata, neural networks and genetic
algorithms Self-organizing architectures and
hardware computers of the future VLSI
implementation of the self-organizing artificial
systems Hardware design of cellular automata
and neural networks Open discussions and
conclusions
DATE October 7, 2002 October 9, 2002
FREQUENCY one-time event VENUE Sinaia,
Romania TARGET AUDIENCE specialists in
microelectronics and VLSI design, PhD students in
microelectronics
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Applications of Neural Networks in Speech
Processing Dragos BURILEANU
Topics   Spoken language interfaces
present and future trends Artificial neural
networks - alternatives to classic pattern
recognition problems Automatic speech
recognition definition, parameters, main stages,
complexity Neural network models applied in a
speech recognition system Speech synthesis
theoretical framework problems in obtaining a
high-quality synthetised speech Neural
architectures used in a text-to-speech synthesis
system Open discussions and conclusions

• Previous work of author in the field
• ? Teaching activities in Speech Technology and
  Digital Signal Processing
• Worked for 15 years in the speech processing
  domain
• More than 30 papers in international journals
  and scientific conferences

Man - machine dialogue
DATE October 10, 2002 October 12, 2002
FREQUENCY one-time event VENUE Sinaia,
Romania TARGET AUDIENCE engineers from the
industry, PhD students
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Networking house Carmen MOLDOVAN
Topics   Networking house, a challenge for
the future Microsensors for domestic
applications Electronic tools for microsensors
simulation and design Electronic nose for
detection of altered food from the fridge, for
the washing machine, for polluted gases detection
(principles, type of sensors, manufacturing,
packaging, signal processing) Sensors for
environment monitoring (temperature, humidity,
quality of air) Microsensors for health
monitoring glucose sensors, ISFET for ions as
Ca2, Mg2, Na, K, microprobes for
recording/stimulation of neural/muscular cells
Communications tools for automated control of the
house Internet usual tool for networking house
DATE November 1st, November 4th and November
20th, October 21st, 2002 FREQUENCY repeatable
VENUE Bucharest, Romania TARGET AUDIENCE High
school pupils
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Pictures from courses Networking House