Bernard Dieny

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Host Institution : CEA

Laboratoire : SPINTEC (CNRS/CEA/UJF)

Appel à projet : Proof of concept (PoC)

Nom du Projet : HYMAGINE

Montant : 0.15 M€

Description : 

This PoC project is closely coupled to the ERC Advanced Grant HYMAGINE. The purpose of this ERC is twofold :

  • Develop a hybrid technology combining CMOS logic together with magnetic materials, in particular magnetic tunnel junctions non volatile cells, and conceive a few innovative architectures illustrating the outstanding potential of this approach;

  • Promote this hybrid technology in collaboration with ITRS and reduce the worldwide cultural gap between microelectronics (in particular designers) and magnetism communities.

The benefits expected from this hybrid technology are: a higher processing power, a much reduced power consumption, high speed and on-the-fly reconfigurability, radiation hardness and tolerance to harsh environment, simpler design cycles, reduced footprint on the Si wafer and correlatively lower cost.In 2006, SPINTEC (the PIs lab) launched a start-up company, Crocus Technology, aiming at developing and bringing the magnetic memory (MRAM) technology to production. Crocus Technology is a growing company now employing 65 people. It raised 75M in equity and 300M in 2011 to build a production line joint venture for MRAM.

Having already successfully spun-off a start-up in the past (Crocus Technology), our objective through this ERC Proof Of Concept project, is to launch a new fables company aiming at conceiving and designing IPs (innovative designs) and products based on this hybrid CMOS/magnetic technology. This fables company will work in partnership with foundries (potentially Crocus Technology) to produce the chips. This start-up will be run and managed by a team of experienced researchers/engineers with experience and industrial background in magnetic and CMOS technologies

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