Centre for Technology Infusion

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Hardware Product Realisation Centre

The Hardware Product Realisation Centre is a facility to provide hardware developers, access to the latest technologies & development tools to bring their ideas to life. The Centre aims to overcome Australia’s development handicap in EDA tools and infrastructure support for hardware product developers.

The designers can also access the National Networked TeleTest Facility (NNTTF) which was created as a Major National Research Facility to provide vital equipment to take Australia to the Frontier of critically important and expanding fields in micro nano electronic research and development. The $15 million facility provides leading edge capabilities addressing the most complex testing, IP validation and characterisation challenges in micro/nano electronic and System-on-a-Chip.

Objectives

The overall objective of the Hardware Product Realisation Centre is to:

• Provide access to technologies, EDA tools, infrastructure and methodologies for research and product development;
• Transfer skills and technology into industry, business and the community
• Have a strong implementation and product development focus
• Provide design & test services
• Support innovations and commercialisation
• Engage in strategic and applied research

Facilities The Hardware Product Realisation Centre has established industry standard design and test facilities to support its activities. The facilities include: Cadence Design Suite Altera Development Platform Coventorware Design Suite Xilinx Development Platform Mentor Graphics Design Suite Genesys Design Suite Altium Design Suite NNTTF (National Network Tele Test Facility) Access to latest technologies from Peregrine, IBM, ST, TSMC, etc.

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Hardware Product Realisation Centre (pdf 260kb)