Commercial Account

Companies, academic institutions, governmental agencies, and individuals who pre-pay or submit a purchase order for fabrication of their designs need a MOSIS Commercial Account. This includes universities who do not qualify for grants or fabrication subsidies under the MOSIS Educational Program.

How to create an account

To open a commercial account with MOSIS please complete and submit the account application:

Commercial Account Application

The Commercial Account Application requires information on the Account's Primary Contact. For academic institutions, the primary contact must be the class professor or instructor. A student or staff member may NOT be the primary contact for an account.

Note: Please read the instructions carefully before submitting your application. The account will be created ONLY after MOSIS receives signed original of the MOSIS Customer Agreement.

MOSIS Customer Agreement

Please submit the signed copy of the MOSIS customer agreement in pdf format through our Customer Online Support System under MOSIS Customer Agreements category, the copy must have the signature of a person authorized to sign legal agreements on behalf of your organization.

Authorized signatory for academic institutions

A professor cannot be accepted as a signatory unless the signed agreement is accompanied by a statement from the university's legal department, on university letterhead, acknowledging the authority of said professor to enter into legal agreements on behalf of the university.

Authorized signatory for other organizations

For many organizations, only a president, vice president, purchasing officer, or corporate attorney can enter into a legal agreement on behalf of that organization.

The purpose of the MOSIS customer agreement is to ensure that MOSIS customers know exactly what they are (and what they are not) purchasing. For example, it's important for designers to know that MOSIS does not guarantee that fabricated parts will be functional, because designing the circuit is the customer's responsibility. MOSIS does, however guarantee that all wafers will meet the wafer fabricators' acceptance specifications. This is the type of information that is included in the MOSIS customer agreement.

REGARDLESS OF WHO SIGNS THE AGREEMENT, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE DESIGNER OF THE PARTS, OR THE ENGINEER SUBMITTING THE DESIGN, TO BE AWARE OF THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.

Additional agreements for access to proprietary vendor documentation

Many vendors require MOSIS to obtain from our customers signatures on additional documents before we can grant access to their proprietary and confidential information. The section below will guide you through this process.

How to request document access

Instructions

If you require access to vendor documents, you are required to sign the vendor's Non-Disclosure Agreement for STATEMENT ACKNOWLEDGING RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT PROPRIETARY MATERIAL. Below is the list of vendor documents, and agreements required to obtain access to these documents. Please submit the appropriate signed agreement(s) for approval. All Access Request Forms are to be submitted online. Fill in the information and click on the "Submit Query" button at the bottom of the form. You will receive a confirmation that your request was received.

Special instructions for academic institutions

Academic institutions must read the "Access by Universities to Proprietary Information" MOSIS policy for document access by university accounts, then complete, sign, and mail the Academic Account Document Access Application, which contains the following:

• Account Information
• Fabrication Plan
• Account Liaison NDA
• List of students, staff, and other faculty that have signed the individual NDA.

Additionally, a Mini-Proposal may be requested.

An academic account in good standing can renew document access by signing and submitting the appropriate Academic Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

List of Agreements By Vendors

Academic Accounts 
MOSIS offers three types of accounts for academic institutions, one commercial and two MOSIS Educational Program (MEP) accounts

MEP Account Forms

MEP Instructional Account Application (HTML)

MEP Research Account Application (HTML)

MEP Instructional Account Class Enrollment (HTML)

Academic Account Forms

To access proprietary documents, each academic institution, regardless of account type, must provide the following to MOSIS in addition to all forms and agreements requested by the vendor

Academic Account Document Access Application (PDF) (send this one to MOSIS)

Student, Staff and Non-Liaison Faculty NDA (PDF) (keep this one for your records)

Comparision of Academic Account Types

⁽¹⁾ MEP Instructional allocations are expressed in TinyChip units, rather than dollars or number of integrated circuits. A TinyChip unit for a given process represents both an allocation of project area and a quantity of parts to be delivered.

One TinyChip unit represents 5 deliverable parts of a project no larger than 1.5 mm x 1.5 mm.

MEP Instructional designs may be larger by using more TinyChip units in multiples of 1.5 mm x 1.5 mm, up to 3.0 mm x 3.0 mm which would be 4 TinyChip units.