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MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service) is probably the oldest (1981)
integrated circuit (IC)
foundry service and one of the first Internet services other than
supercomputing services and basic infrastructure such as
E-mail or
FTP.
MOSIS is operated by the
Information Sciences Institute at the
University of Southern California (USC). MOSIS merges multiple IC designs submitted by both companies and
universities onto multi-project wafers (MPW) to share the cost of fabrication among multiple users.
MOSIS has prototyped more than 50,000 chip designs for businesses, government agencies and universities. Between
1990 and
2003, some 66,539 students learned chip design in MOSIS-associated programs and a total of 13,734 designs were fabricated.
Many of the early users of MOSIS were students using IC layout techniques from the seminal book
Introduction to VLSI Design (ISBN ) by
Caltech professors
Carver Mead (External Link
) and
Lynn Conway (External Link).
Some early
RISC processors such as
SPARC and
MIPS were run through MOSIS during their early design and testing phases.
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