CCCD: a valuable industry partner
CCCD: a valuable industry partner
CCCD: a valuable industry partner
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<strong>CCCD</strong>: a <strong>valuable</strong> <strong>industry</strong> <strong>partner</strong><br />
Fredrik Dahlgren, Sven Mattisson<br />
Ericsson Mobile Platforms<br />
Lund, Sweden<br />
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Ericsson in Lund<br />
• Ericsson needed to expand outside Kista<br />
• LTH had the ASIC competence<br />
• mid 1980’s ECS was established in Lund<br />
• many early GSM platform ideas based on LTH diploma theses<br />
• strategic research cooperation with LTH<br />
• <strong>CCCD</strong> provides a good platform for applied ASIC research<br />
• EMP is pushing ASIC technology development within Ericsson<br />
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Why does EMP want to be part of <strong>CCCD</strong>?<br />
• major ASIC design group in Sweden<br />
• added value<br />
– good scientific network<br />
– access to early results<br />
– mutual exchange of information<br />
– project input<br />
• secure funding of senior scientists<br />
• free but “strategically right” research and education<br />
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What is the added value of the <strong>CCCD</strong> model?<br />
Compared to regular research grants, the <strong>CCCD</strong> model enables<br />
• support for senior scientists<br />
• reduced sensitivity to personnel movement<br />
• critical mass<br />
• strategic R&D planning on scientific grounds<br />
EMP thinks <strong>CCCD</strong> is instrumental for the future of Ericsson in Lund and<br />
strongly supports a continuation!<br />
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