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| | Information Sciences Institute - MOSIS Free-Chips-for-Students Program Nears Quarter Century Mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | César Piña (right) is director of MOSIS, headquartered at ISI, which is part of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, For decades, MOSIS has been facilitating commercial chip design by providing a secure, economical and reliable way of prototyping chips. |
 | | MOSIS contracts directly with commercial chip foundries for wholesale silicon “acreage,” and retails the subdivided space on an affordable non-profit basis. |
 | | MOSIS has prototyped more than 50,000 chip designs for businesses, government agencies and universities, including the originals of many now widely used commercial chips, such as those used in Sun Microsystems SPARC and SGI’s MIPS systems. |
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