NSF/DARPA Agreement for Use of DARPA VLSI Implementation

1986年，美国国家科学基金会(NSF)和美国国防高级研究计划局(DARPA)签订了一份谅解备忘录(MOU)，为符合条件的大学设立了一项为期三年的联合计划，支持MOSIS(金属氧化物半导体实施服务)的超大规模集成制造(VLSI)。这是该协议的三年延续，自1989年10月1日起生效。这一谅解备忘录的延续扩大了最初的计划，以加快美国大学微系统设计和原型制作的关键能力。这包括扩大已获授权使用MOSIS的大学可获得的原有服务和技术(如半定制和砷化镓芯片制造)；强调VLSI教育，特别是设计未来电子系统所需的本科教育；探索专门为研究和教育界对最先进技术(例如，先进传感器和微机械设备的设计)进行具有成本效益的实验的渴望而设计的新制造服务；以及完整系统所需的快速原型制作方法、工具和服务。该项目受到了大学和产业界的广泛好评，认为这对美国的研究和教育工作至关重要，对提高美国竞争力的国家努力也很重要。截至1990年6月1日，超过140所大学被授权将MOSIS用于VLSI教育目的，超过5500名学生注册参加大学VLSI设计课程。这为教授超大规模集成电路提供了宝贵的成本效益教育工具，并产生了坚实的人力资源基础，为国家科学基金会和国防部支持的重要研究成果做出了重大贡献。

A 1986 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) established a three-year joint program supporting VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration fabrication by MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service) for qualifying universities. This is a three-year continuation to that agreement, commencing October 1, 1989. This continuation of the MOU expands the original program to accelerate critical capabilities for Microsystems Design and Prototyping in U.S. universities. This includes expanding the original services and technologies available to universities authorized to use MOSIS as they become generally available (e.g. semi-custom and gallium arsenide chip fabrication); stressing VLSI education, especially undergraduate education needed for designing future electronic systems; exploring new fabrication services designed specifically for the research and education community's desire for cost effective experimentation of state-of-the-art technologies (e.g. design of advanced sensor and micromechanical devices); and rapid prototyping methodologies, tools and services needed for complete systems. The program has been widely acclaimed by both universities and industry as essential to the U.S. research and education effort, and important in the national effort to improve U.S. competitiveness. As of June 1, 1990, over one hundred forty (140) universities are authorized to use MOSIS for VLSI educational purposes and over 5500 students are enrolled in university VLSI Design classes. This has provided a valuable cost effective educational tool for teaching VLSI, as well as resulted in a sound human resource base that has significantly contributed to important research successes supported by both the NSF and DoD.