STIMESI - Stimulation action on MEMS and SiP design (FP6-IST) (2006-01-01 - 2009-12-31) (»add to infobox)

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INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM VZW (BE242 - Arr. Leuven) (Belgium), COUNCIL FOR THE CENTRAL LABORATORY OF THE RESEARCH COUNCILS (UKJ14 - Oxfordshire) (Great Britain), MEMSCAP (FR714 - Isère) (France), QINETIQ LTD (UKI11 - Inner London - West) (Great Britain), INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES SENSONOR AS (NO033 - Vestfold) (Norway), TRONIC S MICROSYSTEMS SA (FR714 - Isère) (France)

The goal of the STIMESI Stimulation Action is to stimulate European universities and research institutes to adopt MEMS and SiP technologies in different ways. First of all the more experienced universities active in MEMS design/technology will be stimulated to increase MEMS research activities and design and fabricate more MEMS circuits and SiP components. Secondly it is also the goal to stimulate other universities to actively start teaching/research MEMS/SiP activities. In order to stimulate those universities and research institutes, they must be helped, guided, trained and they must get access to user-friendly design kits. In order to make sure that the MEMS/SiP technologies can be accessed easily by universities, qualified, robust and user-friendly design kits and design flows are being developed in the project. The development of robust MEMS design kits must link and include process capability, material properties, statistical and material tolerances. All this information must be integrated into the available MEMS CAD tools. As soon as the first versions of the design kits become available (second half of first year), training courses will be organised by the foundries. It is very important that trainees when returning home from courses and starting to make home exercises get additional technical support. The foundries organising and lecturing the courses will therefore provide technical assistance to the trainees for a certain time. It is also important that the courses can be used at the university to develop new teaching material so that the MEMS technology can be added in the curricula. A stimulation activity can only be successful with a good dissemination plan. This will include following activities such as a specific WEB site, leaflets and flyers on the different MEMS technologies, promotion of the training courses through various channels, an annual Workshop, etc.

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