EIS project
The EIS project funded by the BMFT from 1983 to 1987 served to introduce microelectronics into academic teaching. The abbreviation "EIS" should show the concern of the German pioneers of the worldwide " VLSI revolution", namely to enforce the emerging discipline of " design of integrated circuits " for teaching in Germany.
20 universities in Germany participated in the EIS project initiated by Reiner Hartenstein . The EIS project was the FRG's answer to the rapidly spreading microchip design revolution worldwide, which, detached from the microelectronic technology scene, established the microelectronic design methods as an independent science and led to the emergence of the industry for tools (software) Electronics design automation led (EDA industry, where EDA stands for " Electronic Design Automation "). This worldwide revolution was triggered (in the USA with funding from the DARPA -VLSI project) by Carver Mead , then professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and Lynn Conway , then head of the VLSI laboratory at the Xerox PARC research center in Palo Alto, California. The EIS project is the forerunner of the EUROCHIP organization funded by the European Union for the promotion of microelectronic design sciences in Europe, which has since continued under different names.