Market consultation tape-out (Europractice)

The UG intends to purchase a tape-out. The circuit design has already been made - through software provided by Europractice - the actual fabrication of that design is done in a specialized place (a professional clean room) - according to the EU ERC Starting Grant project MEMRINESS (GA 101042585). This step of the actual chip fabrication is called "tape-out". Since the entire design has been made through Imec’s procedures (and this is not transferable to other fabs/clean rooms) - Imec is the only supplier that can deliver the tape-out. After careful market research focusing on the requirements - the RUG has come to the conclusion that Imec  is the single supplier that can deliver the required product and service as described in this document.  ...