DreamWafer Intelligent Prototyping (Gestion / Small Co)

Dreamwafer Intelligent Rapid Prototyping Platform For Electronic Systems

Objective
The DreamWafer Intelligent Prototyping WaferBoard™ is a “waffle iron” for prototyping electronic printed circuit board (PCB) systems. Simply place components (“dough”) in the WaferBoard™ and close the cover. "WaferBoard™ then senses the component contacts and recognizes the components and intelligently interconnects them (“cooks them”). The prototype (“waffle”) is now ready to be brought up and run.

Deliverables
Deliverables are to have the DreamWafer prototype tested by technology enduser/first commercial customer Hyperchip Inc. in the development of its next-generation leading-edge network equipment and by Hydro-Quebec IREQ in its custom robotic designs; to present the prototype via technology end-user Participant CMC to first university customers across Canada for prototyping their custom systems; and to prepare the DreamWafer prototype for presentation to the market.

Technology & Benefits
DreamWafer Intelligent Prototyping is a Platform for providing a wide range of creativity and innovation that could be disruptive and far reaching in Canadian Industry and Canadian Universities. It will result in many new Canadian start-up-companies with a competitive edge, by shaving months from time-to-market and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars off of design cycles for sensors, robotics, process control, instrumentation, vision systems, medical equipment, remote sensing, displays, telecommunication devices, multimedia, computing, defence and consumer electronics.

Precarn - Small Company Project

Participants

• Gestion TechnoCap Inc., Montréal, QC  (Lead)
• Ecole Polytechnique, Montréal, QC
• Université de Québec à Montréal, QC
• Université de Québec en Outaouais, QC   
• Hydro-Quebec Research Institute, Varennes, QC
• Hyperchip Inc., St-Laurent, QC
• CMC Microsystems, Kingston, ON

Project Duration
Start:  January 2009
End:  December 2009