OTHER STUDENT RESOURCES Student Design Contest  |  DAC Graduate Scholarships

    The purpose of the DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest is to promote excellence in the design of electronic systems by providing competition between graduate and undergraduate students at universities and colleges. The Student Design Contest is jointly sponsored by DAC and its sponsors, ISSCC as well as the corporate sponsors named below.

Design Contest Submission Guide

41st DESIGN CONTEST supported by:

OPERATIONAL CATEGORY
1st Place (Best Overall)
A Single Chip Ultra-Wideband Transceiver
Fred S. Lee, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Raul Blazquez – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MAPuneet P. Newaskar – Silicon Labs, Austin, TX
2nd Place
81 MS/s JPEG 2000 Single-Chip Encoder with Rate-Distortion Optimization
Hung-Chi Fang, Yu-Wei Chang, and Liang-Gee Chen – National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
3rd Place (tie) – An 80Gbps FPGA Implementation of a Universal Hash Function based Message Authentication Code
Bo Yang, Ramesh Karri – Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NYDavid A. McGrew – Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA
3rd Place (tie) – A Modular 32-Site Wireless Neural Stimulation Microsystem
Maysam Ghovanloo and Khalil Najafi – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY
1st Place – The Economical Aphotic Sieving Machine
Kamran Kashef and Matt Hardy – Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2nd Place – VIRAM1: A Media­Oriented Vector Processor with Embedded DRAM
Joseph Gebis, Sam Williams, David Patterson – Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA
Christos Kozyrakis - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
3rd Place – SiGe Prototype Chip Design Implementing CMOS Fixed Bit-Load Drivers and Receivers for Next Generation High-Speed Board-Level Interconnect
Jason D. Bakos, Amit Gupta, Leo Salavo, Donald Chiarulli – University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

CRITERIA FOR ENTERING THE CONTEST (SUBMISSION)
    Student Design Contest submissions are invited from full-time graduate and undergraduate students. Both integrated circuits and electronic systems designs (board-level design) are encouraged. The design must have taken place as part of the student's course or research work at the university and must have been completed within 18 months of the submission deadline.
    There are two categories for all Student Design Contest submissions: 'Operational' and 'Conceptual'. Operational designs have been implemented and tested. Proof of implementation in the form of die- or board-photographs and measurement data must be supplied. Conceptual designs need not have been implemented but must have been thoroughly simulated and must include a test plan.
    Submissions are made electronically via the DAC web site. Student Design Contest papers should include an abstract and should not exceed 4000 words and not more than 10 diagrams and figures. The deadline for submission is December 13, 2004, 5 pm MST.
    It is appropriate for a professor to be included as a co-author if he/she was instrumental in the student(s) approach to the design, or provided other guidance that contributed to the success of the design.
    Submissions are judged by a panel of experts including members of the DAC Technical Program Committee and other representatives from the industry. Judging criteria includes originality, soundness of engineering, measured performance and the quality of the written submission. Winners will be notified mid-February.