Limoges , Montpellier , Lyon region, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and Eastern region : these five clusters offer facilities for designing digital and analog integrated circuits and systems, as well as characterization facilities. Within the field of micro- and nanoelectronics, each cluster has a particular specialty, such as radiofrequency, microwaves, optoelectronics, power electronics, instrumentation and telecommunications.
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Centers fitted out with clean rooms
The centers at Grenoble, Lille, Orsay, Paris, Rennes et Toulouse : all have clean rooms with micro- and nanotechnology facilities. These facilities can be used to manufacture components, circuits and integrated systems or to provide physical and electrical characterization of specimens created.
Each center makes different manufacturing specialties available: complete technology for integrated test circuits to MOS transistors on silicon, manufacturing of components such as PN junction diodes, Schottky diodes, MOS capacitors and transistors, bipolar transistors, Microsystems, biochips, nano-objects . These practical courses have been designed for simplicity, in order to demonstrate and study the basic principles used in the leading technological processes, enabling students to have a functioning specimen produced, which they can then characterize.
Bordeaux : this center has a hybrid microelectronics technology facility.
The clean room facilities play host to students and teaching staff from right across France and even from abroad.
All twelve CNFM centers enjoy the use of industrial software installed on workstations or PCs.
Students, researchers and interns can use state-of-the-art software, such as CADENCE, SYNOPSYS, to design semi-conductors, integrated circuits, systems on chip and Microsystems. Grenoble's multi-project circuit service can then be used to produce prototypes on an industrial level..
Other software, such as ALTERA, XILINX, is available for designing programmable circuits, and students or other users can then very quickly make up prototypes.
The centers also offer software to simulate manufacturing technology and the electrical properties of components. On top of all this, each center has specific facilities in line with its particular specialties.
The CNFM's CAD resource center (CRCC)
provides users with a nationwide network of cutting-edge micro- and nanoelectronics CAD tools and tailored prototyping facilities
teaching staff are trained and technical support is always available to users
provides a link between providers and CNFM centers
assessing available resources
rsuggesting equipment choices and placing contracts with suppliers
The CRCC (the CNFM National Centre of Computer Aided Design Resources) currently manages a portfolio of more than 3,000 key software concerning mainly Cadence, Synopsys (full design platorms), Silvaco (TCAD), Xilinx, Altera (FPGA design), Anadigm (analogic FPGA), Softmems (microsystem).
The CNFM test resource center (CRTC)
provide distance learning facilities for use in integrated circuit testing via its Montpellier-based industrial test facility
Each CNFM center has workstations and software which can be used to develop test sequences, before sending them via the RENATER network to the CNFM test center.
From 1997 to 2006, the CRTC (CNFM Test Resources Centre) made a HP 83000-F330t tester available to the community. Since 2007, a new V93000 item of equipment, obtained through partnership with the Verigy Company, the Languedoc-Rousillon region and the GIP CNFM, enables offering of distance industrial test possibilities diversified to analogue and joint circuits to the users.
CNFM's Montpellier center manages both the CAD and test resource centers.
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