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Hong Kong Science Park ‘Soft’ InfrastructureExecutive Summary Hong Kong Science Park provides shared facilities / services for IC design companies to complete the whole IC design/development process from design start to production release. The shared facilities / services include:- A Data Centre for design database storage and protection An Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Centre for design software tools sharing on a pay-per-demand basis Intellectual property (IP) services Multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttle service A design engineer training centre Hong Kong Science Park ‘Soft’ InfrastructureExecutive Summary A probe test development centre with major test equipments installed and charge on a pay-per-usage basis Test and product engineering service An RF and analog engineering support lab A reliability lab A product analysis lab Hong Kong Science Park ‘Soft’ Infrastructure IC Data Centre Jun 2003 IC EDA Centre Jun 2003 IC Probe and Test Oct 2003 Development Centre Reliability Lab Nov 2003 Product Analysis Lab Dec 2003 Photonics Development Aug 2004 Support Centre Hong Kong Science Park ‘Soft’ InfrastructureIC Data Centre Provides a number of high end powerful computing servers shared among end users The management of Data Centre is outsourced to an experienced neutral third party: - To enable right and strict data ownership with backup operation - To ensure the protection of intellectual property created by end users The computing servers are open grid service architecture enabled to provide user enough computing power on design simulation and verification Hong Kong Science Park ‘Soft’ Infrastructure Server Farm - SunFire V1280 (CPU x 8) running at 900MHz - SunFire V480 (CPU x 2) - Grid Computing Service Architecture Enabled - 2TB Raid-1 protected SAN, daily backup Design Engineering Room - Sun Blade 2000, Linux based, Xeon PC - 1 Gb optical Fibre Connection Security - Several