The Centro Nacional de Tecnologia Eletrônica Avançada S.A (CEITEC - National Center for Advanced Electronic Technology) is a Brazilian technology

Technology

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 center specialized in project

Project

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 development and fabrication in microelectronics

Microelectronics

Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture of very small electronic components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-scale or smaller,. These devices are made from semiconductors...

, i.e. integrated circuit

Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...

s, or "chips". This center is one of the agents for the Brazilian Microelectronics Program (PNM - Programa Nacional de Microeletrônica).

The main objective of CEITEC is to provide an incentive to the production of semiconductor

Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

 components and microeletronics education

Education

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. This project is part of the technology and industrial development policy of the federal Brazilian government. The initiative is a result of a partnership between governmental entities, universities

University

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, research

Research

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 centers and companies and will be operating in Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...

, state of Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...

 in a 13,650 m² facility divided into:

Research

CEITEC played an important role until 2008 preparing workers for the Brazilian semiconductor industry.

General

• To offer infrastructure
  Infrastructure
  Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...
  
  in form of labs, equipments and human resources to companies, research and development (R&D) centers and universities in order to promote the microelectronic technology in Brazil.
• Stimulate the local development in microelectronic projects and education, which implies new qualified jobs and income distribution.

Specific

• Support human resources qualification in integrated circuit production processes;
• Provide integrated circuit production services to industries and for scientific and technological research purposes;
• Stimulate the construction of a national network of technological services, enabling the qualification of electronics products and processes;
• Transfer technology on microelectronics to companies in the electronics sector for the competitive qualification of products, processes, and services.