MEDEAs system-on-chip

03/01/1999

MEDEA`s system-on-chip

Bull and STMicroelectronics are key players in a Microelectronics Developments for European Applications (MEDEA) project that has produced Jupiter 2-J25, dubbed "one of the world`s most complex system-on-a-chip ICs." The device integrates seven million logic transistors manufactured with 0.25-?m CMOS technology at STM`s plant in Crolles, France. It will be used in Bull`s DPS9000/700-2 systems, its advanced mainframe computers. Design rules were released to Bull designers at the end of 1997; first wafers were processed at Crolles in May 1998; and the system was introduced at the end of 1998. This impressive time-to-market was achieved using concurrent engineering principles at the Bull and STM sites. - P.B.