State IUCRC CALCE Center for Electronic Packaging

计算机辅助生命周期工程中心（CALCE） 电子封装目前是NSF/IUCRC，每年 预算超过90万元。 现有中心的活动 将扩大到进行研究和开发高 高可靠性和国际竞争力的商业 电子产品 该计划将纳入成本 有效性、可生产性和可支持性， 可靠性，纳入并行产品开发过程， 加强经济发展和竞争力， 美国的电子工业。 可制造性， 产品产量、质量、可靠性和生命周期成本将 在设计阶段同时解决，将有 快速转让改进的方法、技术和后勤， 产品开发 为了实现这一目标，该中心的研究是 分为四个跨学科的研究重点领域，每个领域 （1）设计开发 产品性能;（2）产品生产率和 可支持性;（3）生命周期建模和评估;（4） 实验和验证。 结果将直接转移到工业 成员通过开发的软件，指导方针和标准。 新 技术将通过以下方式直接集成到软件中： 改进的算法和增强的数据库， 工业界实现改进设计的能力 可生产性、可靠性和可支持性。 技术转让 活动包括讲习班、短期课程、培训和 在当地社区学院和国家赞助的咨询会议 小企业倡议组织，此外， CALCE中心目前的技术转让活动， 会员网站。 马里兰州、工业界和国家科学基金会将提供 第一年的配套资金总额为75万美元。

The Computer Aided Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE)Center For Electronic Packaging is presently an NSF/IUCRC, with an annual budget of over $900,000. The activities of the existing Center will be expanded to conduct research and development of high volume, highly-reliable and internationally competitive commercial electronic products. The program will incorporate cost effectiveness, producibility and supportability as well as high reliability, into a concurrent product development process to enhance the economic development and competitiveness of the electronic industry in the United States. Manufacturability, product yield, quality, reliability and life cycle costs will be addressed concurrently during the design phase, and there will be rapid transfer of improved methods, technologies and logistics into product development. To accomplish this, the Center research is organized into four interdisciplinary research thrust areas, each with defined core and non-core activities: (1) design development for product performance; (2) product producibility and supportability; (3) life cycle modeling and assessment; and (4) experimentation and validation. The results will be transferred directly to the industrial members through developed software, guidelines and standards. New technologies will be incorporated directly into software through improved algorithms and enhanced databases which will in turn aid industry's capability to achieve designs for improved producibility, reliability and supportability. Technology transfer activities include workshops, short courses, training and consulting sessions at local community colleges and state-sponsored organizations for small-business initiatives, in addition to current technology transfer activities at the CALCE Center and at member sites. The State of Maryland, industry and NSF will provide matching funds totalling $750,000 in the first year.