MOSCOW. Jan 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Control Systems Agency has begun to form design centers for a prospective automated designing system, the press service of the agency told Interfax-Military News Agency Wednesday.
According to the press service, this work is being done within the National Technological Base Federal Program.
The creation of such design centers was considered at an earlier expanded joint session run by the agency.
"One such design center costs about USD500,000. That is why the priority in the session was to integrate the hi-tech potential of the defense industry with the Russian Academy of Sciences and higher educational establishments. This might help in arranging a joint designing system, in codifying the macroblocks, and in cooperation with domestic and foreign silicon workshops at the development of submicrometer system-on-crystal integrated circuits," the press service said.
The main speakers for the agency, Vladimir Nemudrov, CEO of the NIIMA Progress state-owned enterprise, and Anatoly Sukhoparov, chairman of the Federal Electronics Development Fund, grounded a need for the integration of scientific and financial potentials of ministries, state agencies, and enterprises in creating design centers of submicrometer system-on-crystal integrated circuits with participation of currently operational centers. They emphasized that the designing of submicrometer system-on-crystal integrated circuits could be faster if managed using macroblocks.
The session considered the draft agreement "On the Principles of the Formation of Joint Infrastructure for the Designing of Submicrometer System-on-Crystal Integrated Circuits." The ministries and agencies concerned can amend it to draw an adjusted joint document in the near future.
In addition to top executives and experts of the Russian Control Systems Agency, the session was attended by representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Defense Ministry, the Science and Technologies Ministry, the Economic Development Ministry, the Education Ministry, all the defense agencies, scientists from a number of Moscow-based technical universities, and directors of enterprises organic to the Russian Control Systems Agency.