The EUROPRACTICE MPC service

IMEC has been involved in MPC services for universities and industry since 1984. In the beginning these services were set up to support the local educational programme. Later on in 1989, IMEC was coordinator of the European wide MPC services in the EC funded project EUROCHIP. Today since October 1995, IMEC has been coordinator of the IC Manufacturing Service in the EC funded project EUROPRACTICE. The paper discusses the EUROPRACTICE project, an ESPRIT initiative in the field of European microelectronics. EUROPRACTICE will concentrate primarily on three microelectronics-based technologies: application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), multi-chip modules (MCMs) and microsystems. The paper considers the EUROPRACTICE MPC service in detail.