VHPIC, information technology and VLSI technology are of key importance to military and civil equipment and systems, but it is a highly demanding area, in investment, expertise and new thinking. It will be very beneficial to exploit commonality between applications, both civil and military. On the military side cost reduction through use of VHPIC may be as important as increased per formance. Improved design tools to give an order of magnitude reduction in design costs will be crucial. Effective continuing collaboration between companies, to share the research task and to exchange technology, design tools and VHPIC circuits, will be very important to success.

Inspec keywords: VLSI

Other keywords: very high performance integrated circuits; civil equipment; information technology; civil systems; improved design tools; VLSI technology; magnitude reduction; military systems; military equipment

Subjects: Semiconductor integrated circuits