NSF/DARPA Agreement for Use of DARPA VLSI Implementation

1986年，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和国防高级研究计划局（DARPA）签署了一份谅解备忘录（MOU），建立了一项为期三年的联合计划，支持由MOSIS（金属氧化物半导体实施服务）为合格大学提供VLSI（超大规模集成制造）。这是自1989年10月1日起该协定的三年延续。谅解备忘录的延续扩展了原始计划，以加速美国大学微系统设计和原型设计的关键能力。这包括扩展授权使用MOSIS的大学可用的原始服务和技术，因为它们变得普遍可用（例如半定制和砷化镓芯片制造）；重视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设计的新制造服务，以实现最先进技术的成本效益实验（例如设计先进的传感器和微机械设备）；以及完整系统所需的快速原型方法、工具和服务。该项目受到大学和工业界的广泛赞誉，被认为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名学生参加了大学VLSI设计课程。这为超大规模集成电路的教学提供了一个有价值的成本效益的教育工具，并形成了一个健全的人力资源基础，为NSF和DoD支持的重要研究成功做出了重大贡献。

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.