Company Overview

Company Background Micronet is a Canada-wide network of Investigators from universities, industry and government research organizations working cooperatively towards the development of the next generation of microelectronic systems. Micronet is one of twenty-two networks funded concurrently by the Government of Canada, under its Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program, and by Industry. The funding agency for Micronet is the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Micronet focuses on precompetitive research dealing with the development of Systems on a Chip (SOC) for communications, information and instrumentation systems. The annual budget of the Network is of the order of $4.4 million including the NCE award and industrial contributions. The NCE funds provide considerable leverage to the direction and industrial relevance of the research undertaken by Micronet's University investigators who control an additional $5.3 million in research funding from alternate sources.

Business Description Micronet's mission is to mobilize Canada's research talent in the academic, private and public sectors and apply it to strengthen the competitive ability of the Canadian microelectronics and information technology industries. Specifically Micronet's objectives are to:

• Stimulate leading edge industrially relevant fundamental and

applied research, based on excellence as measured by international standards, in areas critical to Canada's future.

• Educate and train world-class scientists and engineers in

technologies that are essential to Canada's productivity and economic growth.

• Accelerate the exchange of research results within the Network

and facilitate the transfer of this knowledge to, and its absorption by, organizations that can harness it to advance Canada's economic and social development.

• Integrate University, Industry and Government research efforts

in the microelectronics area into a national network to enhance Canada's industrial competitiveness on the international stage.

• Manage multidisciplinary, multisectoral research programs of

nationwide scope and develop partnerships that integrate the research and development priorities of all participants.

Microelectronic Research Micronet includes 19 universities, which together have 78 professors and 386 graduate students and other research personnel across Canada. The universities involved in Micronet are:

Carleton University Concordia University Dalhousie University cole Polytechnique de Montral INRS-nergie, Matriaux et Tlcommunications McGill University McMaster University Ryerson University Universit de Montral University of Alberta University of British Columbia University of Calgary University of Manitoba University of Regina University of Saskatchewan University of Toronto University of Victoria University of Waterloo University of Windsor

Micronet includes also 53 industrial partners and affiliates which interact with the Network and support its research programs through cash and in-kind contributions. The organizations involved are listed below.

PARTNERS A. U. G. Signals Ltd. Altera Corp. AMIRIX Systems Inc. Cognio Canada DALSA Inc. Discera Inc. Gennum Corporation Ide Technologies Inc. IDERS Inc. Macroblock Inc. MPB Communications Inc. Nortel Networks OptEm Engineering Inc. PMC-Sierra Inc. Stellate STMicroelectronics Inc. Texas Instruments Canada Ltd.

AFFILIATES ATI Technologies Inc. Canadian Hydrographic Service, Pacific Region CanaVision Technologies Catena Networks Inc. Chipworks Inc. Cirlog Corporation Cogency Semiconductor COM DEV Forefront Graphics Corp. Genesis Microchip Inc. Glenayre Manufacturing Ltd. Harris Canada, Inc. InfoMagnetics Technologies Corp. International Downhole Equipment Ltd. ITS Electronics, Inc. LogicVision (Canada) Inc. MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates Ltd. Matrox Graphics Inc. Mentor Graphics (Canada) Ltd. Micralyne Inc. Miranda Technologies Inc. MOSAID Technologies Inc. Nanowave Inc. National Research Council Canada (NRC) NHC Communications Inc. Nimikatek Inc. Numerical Technologies Inc. Quantic EMC Inc. Research In Motion Ltd. Semiconductor Insights Inc. SiGe Semiconductor Inc. Skyworks Solutions Inc. Symagery Microsystems Inc. Tundra Semiconductor Xilinx Inc. Zarlink Semiconductor

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Legal Name: Micronet R & D

Number of Employees: 2

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• Precompetitive Research

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