1. PATENT-dfmm Design for Micro- and Nanomanufacturing Packaging, Test and Reliability Engineering in Micro & Nanosystem Technologies Network of Excellence in Priority 2 IST

2. Description PATENT is a reactive initiative that will attempt to realise the vision of providing innovators whether they be members of small companies, universities or multinationals a predictable route from M&NT based product concept to product. This will be achieved by realizing in the medium to long-term a new concurrent engineering or Design for Micro manufacture Methodology (Dam) for M&NT (micro- and nanotechnologies) based products that provides designers with the means to design performance, testability, robustness and dependability competitively, whatever the operating environment

3. Core Partners University of Lancaster, UK IMEC, Belgium Universitat Bremen, Germany Universite Paris-sud, France 4M2C Patric Salomon, Germany IMT-Bucharest, Romania NMRC Cork, Ireland LIRMM Montpellier, France ISLI Scotland, UK

4. Other scientific partners IZM Berlin, Germany LAAS Paul Saba tier University, France BUTE Budapest, Hungary Politecnico di Milano, Italy Warsaw University of Technology, Poland THALES, Paris QinetiQ Sensors and Electronics, UK Heriot Watt University Edinburg, UK KU Leuven, Belgium IZM Munich, Germany Fraunhofer ISM Dresden, Germany CCLRR Daresbury, UK

5. Workpackage List Design for Reliability Modelling and Simulation Package Engineering Design for Testability Training Dissemination & Networking Integration Activities

6. CENTRE FOR COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND SIMULATION PARTICIPATION IN WP 2: Available Software in IMT-Bucharest in order to form a basic common simulation platform: COVENTORWARE 2003.1 software packages (at the latest level reached in the world); ANSYS 5.4; IE3D (vers.7, with FIDELITY); OptiFDTD-CAD - time-domain simulation software. Simulation, analysis, modeling and design of various microstructures and microsystems, ranging mechanical, thermal, microfluidics, electrical, three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation, advanced optical simulation and coupled field simulations.

7. Network development Inter Site Infrastructure: IMT-Bucharest can provide access to its design/simulation facilities, offering visits, assistance/consultancy and training. Also, IMT-Bucharest may participate at information dissemination offering WEB design capabilities. Virtual Institute Development Virtual Institute Development Databases Virtual laboratory