Jan. 19, 2005 — The MEMS Industry Group (MIG), a Pittsburgh-based trade association, announced it has received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue its MEMS cost assessment tool project.
In addition, the group said that semiconductor consortium SEMATECH’s subsidiary, the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative, will modify its cost resource model software for the MEMS Industry Group.
The MEMS cost assessment tool will be the industry’s first standardized tool for configuring the cost to develop and produce a MEMS device, according to the MEMS group.