Europractice

The Europractice Software Service provides design tools from industry leading vendors at an affordable cost to academic institutions throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa for non-commerical applications. Its aim is to stimulate the use of microelectronics software in academia and enhance European industrial competitiveness in the global marketplace by providing easy access to a wide range of leading edge IC, FPGA, MCM and Microsystem design tools for non commercial teaching and research.

By supplying leading microelectronic design tools at an affordable cost, the Europractice Software Service has facilitated with the creation of a common design environment within nearly every major European university engaged in microelectronics design. This in turn has created an environment which can facilitate inter-university design projects and co-operation within industry. Additionally this scheme has allowed for microelectronics designers to become productive very quickly when moving between universities or from university to industry.

The Europractice Design Tool and Programmble Platform Service is managed by the Microelectronics Support Centre at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. For full details of the tools available through this service as well as the qualifying criteria for accessing this service please visit the Europractice Design Tool and Programmble Platform Service's website.

Close cooperation with our long term partners, IMEC and FhG-IIS, provide academic institutions with access to multi-project wafer fabrication of circuit prototypes via the Europractice IC service.