The Microelectronics Research Center at the University of South Florida

On-site training facility at the University of South Florida led by the R&D Director Wilfrido Moreno is one of the most important projects being developed in the last few years. The implementation of this center consists of short (two to three weeks) training sessions to students and professors that wish to participate in the program.

Our training strategy is twofold:

• Creating a training center at the University of South Florida at the Center for Microelectronics Research (CMR) to offer the opportunity to professors and graduate students from the region to acquire hands on expertise on the industrial partner’s developing tools, including Motorola technologies. In addition, the attendees will have the opportunity to participate in on-going industrial projects at CMR and help in the development of course material to be used by all members. These professors and students will go back to their home institutions to lead the instructional and research efforts. A similar effort will be instituted at the UNM Center of High Technology Materials (CHTM).
• To coordinate a series of weeklong training workshops per region (i.e. Mercosur, Andean countries, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean). To coordinate these workshops, ISTEC will request cooperation from its industrial and institutional members. Specifically, ISTEC will require existing educational materials being available, funding and personnel to support the workshops. Subsequent to these workshops, ISTEC with the assistance of its institutional member will recommend the best students to work on selected projects at the On-site Training Facilities at USF and UNM for further specialized training. At the same time, the Hot-Lab Support group will coordinate smaller workshops per country to continue creating the critical mass needed for development of the R&D Initiative.

Fields of Study at the MRC:

• Rapid System Prototyping
• Field Programmable Gate Array (FFGA)
• Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
• Component Added Design (CAD)
• Digital Signal Processing
• Simulation and Control