Minalogic industrial cluster

Minalogic launches projects using chips and embedded software, with the aim of making technology breakthroughs.

• Embedded intelligence: The EmSoC Center (Embedded Systems on Chip) is a jointly-run facility to develop tomorrow's embedded chip systems, promoting the pole's productivity and pulling power.
• Nanoelectronics: throughout modern industry, component integration is a major issue, and our cluster focuses on remaining ahead in this field, developing innovating materials and dovetailing design and production issues.

The cluster also hosts projects focusing on chip applications:

• Mobility and connectivity: roaming or home-based connections and communications will play a key role in life in the future.
• Energy efficiency: miniaturized solutions are at the heart of intelligent energy management, from optimizing energy sources (wind and solar power, etc.), to managing consumption (e.g. lighting and heating).
• Imaging industries: Minalogic hosts companies in all aspects of the image-related industries, from image capture, to coding, analysis, compression and display.
• Traditional industries: where intelligent chips can increase the competitivity of industries such as a papermaking and textiles.

Leadership
The "Minalogic Partners" association draws together the 64 industrial groups, higher education institutes, research bodies and local authorities. It has a six-member board of directors, made up of "Industrial" representatives Eric Pilaud from Schneider Electric, Bernard Fontan from ST Microelectronics and Daniel Pilaud from Polyspace Technologies, "Research and Higher Education" representatives Jean Therme from the CEA (French atomic energy commission) and Paul Jacquet, President of Grenoble Institute of Technology, alongside the "Local authorities" representative, Alain Cottalorda from the Isère department Council.

Initial projects
In 2005, six projects were granted Minalogic "branding":

• GIN "Materials innovation center", piloted by Soitec
• Imalogic, piloted by Sofradir
• Minimage, piloted by ST Microelectronics
• "Future factory", piloted by ST Microelectronics
• "Smart Electricty", piloted by Schneider Electric
• Printronics "Retail Mall Electronics", piloted by Sofileta Contexte and other leading players

Micro and nanotechnologies and embedded software in the Rhone-Alpes region
More than 30,000 jobs are at stake in this business sector, including 25,500 in industry (14,500 in electronics/micro and nanotechnology and 11,000 in IT/software) and 4,500 in research.