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Objectives
A dissemination action to promote awareness and best practice of EDA Standards
in the European industry over a first one year experimental period, with
a subset of the network of ECSI associate centres.
Partners
(Technical Centres):
- Technical University of Wien (TUW) - Austria
- University of Manchester (UM) - UK
- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) - Spain
- Kungl Tekniska Hoegskolan, Stockholm (KTH) - Sweden
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) - Switzerland
Duration : 12 Months . Starting
date : September 16th, 1996.
The EARNEST Project
provides a well organised active mechanism of dissemination information
to reach the wide community of users from both large electronic companies
and SME's with the appropriate directed and packaged information.
The Technical Centres are distributed so as to provide ready access for
industry in a number of regions, and to edit and disseminate basic information
in several languages when appropriate (UM in English, EPFL in French, TUW
in German, UPM in Spanish, KTH in Swedish and Finnish).
The major activities of this proposed dissemination action are:
- collection of information on ESD standards and design-oriented best
practice experience from sources throughout the world and distributing
these to European industry;
- provision of technical support for standards using a "one-stop
shop" approach. Each Technical Centre will be able to give advice
about any of the ESD standards. In- depth support may be provided where
a given centre happens to have that particular expertise, or the customer
will be directed to the site from which the required in- depth support
is available;
- ability to support European projects and the EC itself if they wish
to organise workshops and tutorials on matters related to ESD standards;
- promotion of the results of other European projects, so that Application
Experiments, Demonstration Projects and other Framework VI projects will
be able to disseminate their and help a wider community of designers to
exploit the existing experience in the use of tools, methods and standards.
The act of EARNEST undertaking these active actions will enable a much
wider access to the standards related documentation and will guarantee the
users community-wide awareness of existing experience on ESD methods and
techniques based on current and future standards. This will enhance both
quality and efficiency in user's design work for the entire product lifecycle.
