Origins

Established:Established: December 2000 December 2000

Donor:Donor: Gerald C. Hsu, founder of Corp. Gerald C. Hsu, founder of Corp.

Value:Value: USD$ 25.7 Million USD$ 25.7 Million

Video Conference SystemVideo Conference System

Polycom ViewStation MPPolycom ViewStation MP

WorkstationWorkstation

Sun Ultra 60 (model 1450) 1 unitSun Ultra 60 (model 1450) 1 unit

Sun Ultra 5 (model 333) 31 unitsSun Ultra 5 (model 333) 31 units

Environment

Core

Electronics Design Automation (EDA) ToolsElectronics Design Automation (EDA) Tools

IC Design Methodology Function

Full-Custom Design Circuit simulation

Layout editor

Verification

Cell-Based Design Analysis/Optimization

Synthesis

Placement/Routing

Verification

Device/Process Simulator

Activities•Research

IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN Baseband & RF Chips Design

1.8v current mode Amp. for flash memory

Modulator/Match Filter/ Equalizer/ NCO/Digital Filter Design

Efficient charge pumping circuit

5.7GHz Power Amp. 2.4 GHz CMOS freq. synthesizer

MIMIV 2.4 GHz low noise Amp. Analog-to-digital converters design

A N-type and P-type CMOS mixer An efficient IP routing table

5.2GHz upconverter VCO Multimedia Chip Design

DC to 6GHz wideband Amp. 8/6 SR motor controller IC

Activities•Speech

Date Topic Speaker Affiliation

2001/3/30 Current Status and Future of VLSI Design

Prof. Robert Chang

NCHU

2001/4/27 Modeling and Evaluating Leadframe CSPs for RFICs in Wireless Applications

Prof. Tzyh-Shen Hung

NSYSU

2001/5/4 Microwave broadband wireless access-technology

Huan-Kai Chiu, Manager

Beng Corp.

2001/5/18 SOC in Semiconductor Industry

Hung-Ming Lin, Director

SiS Corp.

2001/7/4 Evolution and Current Status of RF/Microwave Semiconductor Devices

Prof. J. J. Liou U. of Central Florida

Activities•Speech(cont’d)

Date Topic Speaker Affiliation

2001/10/19 An Introduction to TD-SCDMA - 3G Mobile Communication System

Fang-Biau Wung Simens Corp.

2001/11/23 CMOS OPTOelectronics Prof. C.-W. Liu NTU

2001/12/7 Current Status and Trend of DFT

Hsin-Po Wang, V.P.

Syntest Corp.

2002/3/15 Introduction to GPRS System Architecture and Protocol

Bing-Li Lin, Manager

Quanta Computer Inc.

2002/3/27 The Quantum Jump of University

Chun-Yen Chang, President

NCTU

Activities•Training Courses

Date Course Speaker 人數

Location

2001/6/6-7 Apollo basic Eric Shih 3 Avant!, Hsinchu

2001/6/13-14 Hercules Roy Huang 3 Avant!, Hsinchu

2001/6/27 Star-Sim/XT Tom Lin 2 Avant!, Hsinchu

2001/8/6-31 CIC training courses

CIC engineers 600 Meng Yao Chip Center

2001/12/21 Nova-ExploreRTL

Angeles Chang 35 Meng Yao Chip Center

2001/12/28 Star-Sim Tom Lin 35 Meng Yao Chip Center

2002/1/16-17 Aptix-MP3CF Aptix engineer 20 Meng Yao Chip Center

2002/1/28-2002/3/1

CIC training courses

CIC engineers 480 Meng Yao Chip Center

Activities•Visitation

Date Guests Affliation

2000/12/20 四川高等教育團 大陸2001/3/8 林其屏副院長等一行五位教授 大陸福建社會科學院

訪問團 2001/3/17 Prof. Yoshihiro Tanada 等一行五

位教授 日本大學

2001/9/5 Mayor George Wood North Shore City, New Zealand

2001/10/30 呂副總統秀蓮 中華民國2002/1/23 Dean James Case Williams College of

Engineering, Ohio State Univ.

2002/3/6 Dr. Steven E. Hardin, Vice President

Spalding Univ., KY

Activities•Visitation(Cont’d)

AchievementsIC Chips 23 RF and

base-band IC chips

Patents 4

Award 1

Journal/Conference Publication 9 /11

Research Grants

NSC

Accton Corp.

eMemory Technology Inc.

Macronix Int’l Co. Ltd.

Charder Electronics Inc.

Total

NT$ 8,000,000

NT$ 5,000,000

NT$ 1,000,000

NT$ 500,000

NT$ 400,000

NT$ 14,900,000

(USD$ 430,000)

Goals•Expansion

教學實驗室： (i) 積體電路設計實驗室（現有） (ii) 快速雛形晶片實驗室

研究實驗室： (i) 晶片設計實驗室（現有） (ii) SoC 系統驗證實驗室（建構中） (iii) 晶片量測實驗室

Goals•Administration

產業合作學術研究 教育推廣

中心主任

校長

推動委員會

Goals

 

•Integration

孟堯晶片中心

晶片設計（ Chip Design ）

電機系 通訊所

電腦輔助設計（ CAD ）

應數系 資科所

微機電系統（ MEMS ）

機械系 電機系 精密所

生物晶片（ Bio-Chip ）

生物科技 發展中心

半導體製程（ Process ）

材料系 物理系 電機系

Goals•Promotion

中部晶片設計中心(孟堯晶片中心 )

矽導計畫 CIC 中部訓練中心 中部科學園區