Leuven, Belgium – September 14, 2009 – IMEC, Europe’s leading nanoelectronics research center, and Kaneka Corporation, the Japanese leading manufacturer of chemical specialties and solar cells, have announced a bilateral cooperation. Under the agreement, Kaneka will incorporate its European Photovoltaics Laboratory at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium. Working in IMEC’s facilities and collaborating with IMEC’s experts, [...]

Leuven, Belgium – April 24, 2009 – In today’s General Assembly, the IMEC
Board confirmed that 2008 was a solid year, and this despite the
challenging economic situation in the electronics industry. The Board also
looks with confidence to the future. Nanoelectronics offers tremendous
opportunities for markets such as healthcare, energy, home entertainment,
etc. In this economical downturn, the IMEC [...]

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE 2009 – SAN JOSE, CA – March 31, 2009 – IMEC,
Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, unveils a
suite of tools and methods to optimize the mapping of applications on
embedded multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) platforms. These result in
systems that are more energy-efficient and that can be designed faster,
leading to a shorter time-to-market. IMEC’s MPSoC [...]

IMEC Annual Research Review Meeting – Leuven – Belgium
Leuven, Belgium – October 13, 2008 – IMEC, Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research institute today announced that it has made significant progress with its 3D-SIC (3D stacked IC) technology. IMEC recently demonstrated the first functional 3D integrated circuits obtained by die-to-die stacking using 5µm Cu through-silicon [...]

Renesas Technology has entered into a strategic research collaboration with IMEC, Europe’s leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics, to perform research on 45 nm RF transceivers targeting Gbit/s cognitive radios. To this end, Renesas has joined IMEC’s software-defined radio (SDR) front-end program. This research program includes reconfigurable RF solutions, high-speed/low-power analog-to-digital converters [...]

IMEC sets first step towards CleanC standardization for multi-processor system-on-chip design
Leuven, Belgium – March 11, 2008 – IMEC introduces a new programming style for C code called CleanC that substantially increases the parallelization and optimization potential for multiprocessor targets. The CleanC adherence analysis plug-ins are freely available through Eclipse (www.imec.be/CleanC).
IMEC is developing multi-processor system-on-chip design [...]

Leuven, Belgium – February 25, 2008 – IMEC has realized a single-junction GaAs solar cell on a Ge substrate with a record conversion efficiency of 24.7 percent. The efficiency was measured and confirmed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA (NREL). GaAs solar cells are used in satellite solar panels and earth-based solar concentrators.
IMEC [...]