MEDEA's contribution to the strength of European design and CAD

Microelectronics production is of considerable importance in Europe. It is vital and strategic for the electronics systems industry in Europe, which is by far larger and which is facing markets with a global competition, high growth rates, shortest innovation cycles and permanent price decreases. Europe developed an encouraging position in IC wafer fabrication due to the Jessi programme. On the application side, Europe’s system houses have been able to use Europe’s improved semiconductor expertise to develop state-of-the-art chips that are the heart of several world beating electronic systems contributing to Europe’s competitiveness. In order to keep this strength and improve on it, MEDEA as one of the largest EUREKA programmes was started in January 1997, with a runtime of 4 years.