The EUROPRACTICE IC service has been started in October 1995 and is offered by a consortium of:
The service consists of two main offerings :
During the past years, the IC service of EUROPRACTICE has been developed to one of the most successful ASIC prototype and small volume service in Europe with customers from more than 40 countries world-wide. Annually more than 450 ASICs are prototyped on Multi Project Wafer runs and more than 100 small volumes (~ 5 million components) are delivered to industry. The European Commission is funding the EUROPRACTICE service through a contract under the IST FP6 program. Through this funding European academia and research institutes are able to get access and support to CAD tools and ASIC prototyping at reduced costs.