Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

This ambitious regional initiative is intended to foster collaborations between local PACA industry and academia partners on the topics of microelectronic design, though mutualization of equipments, resources and R&D concerns. We are active in the Design Platform (one of three platforms), of which Inria is a founding member. This provides opportunities for interactions with local companies, leading indirectly to more formal collaborations at times. Phase 3 of the CIM PACA programme should be launched in 2015, and was subject of extensive preparation at the end of 2014.

The ANR HOPE project 8.2.1.1 is conducted under the auspices of the CIM PACA Design Platform, which also hosts prototype and commercial software products contributed by project members (Synopsys, Docea Power, and Magillem, see 8.2.1.1 ). Similarly, the CLISTINE FUI project was labeled by the platform as microelectronic branch of the SCS competitiveness cluster.