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Student Design
Contest Co-Chairs
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Alan Mantooth
Univ. of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR |
David Greenhill
Sun Microsystems Sunnyvale, CA |
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.
42nd STUDENT
DESIGN CONTEST
supported by:
42nd DAC/ISSCC STUDENT DESIGN CONTEST WINNERS
OPERATIONAL
CATEGORY
1st Place (Best
Overall)
A 50MS/s (35mW)
to 1kS/s (15 µW) Power Scaleable 10b Pipelined
ADC with Minimal Bias Current Variation
Imran Ahmed, David Johns - Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON. Canada
2nd Place
– A 1.3 TOPS H.264/AVC Single-Chip
Encoder for HDTV Applications
Tung-Chien Chen, Yu-Wen Huang, Chen-Han Tsai, Ching-Yeh Chen,
To-Wei Chen,
Liang-Gee Chen - National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
3rd Place –
A Side-Channel Leakage Free Coprocessor IC in 0.18µm CMOS for
Embedded AES-based Cryptographic and Biometric Processing
Kris Tiri, David Hwang, Alireza Hodjat, Bo-Cheng Lai,
Shenglin Yang, Patrick
Schaumont, Ingrid Verbauwhede - Univ. of California, Los
Angeles, CA
CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY
1st Place – Design
and Implementation of a Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for Cellular
Systems
Petrus J. Venter, Saurabh Sinha - Univ. of Pretoria,
Pretoria, South Africa
2nd Place – A
1-V IEEE 802.11a/b/g-Compliant Receiver IF-to-Baseband Chip in 0.35µm
CMOS for Low-Cost Wireless SiP
Pui-In Mak, Rui P. Martins - Univ. of Macau, Macao SAR, China
Seng-Pan U - Chipidea Microelectronics (Macau) Ltd., Macao
SAR, China
3rd Place – Collision
Detection System using an FPGA Implemented on the FPX Platform
Hasan N. Atay, Burchan Bayazit, John W. Lockwood - Washington
Univ., St.
Louis, MO
42nd DAC SDC At-Conference Presenters: Bottom tier, left to right: Hasan Atay, Petrus Venter, Imran Ahmed, Kris Tiri, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Shenglin Yang, Tung-Chien Chen, Chen-Han Tsai, Pui-In Mak. Top tier, left to right: John Tanner, David Greenhill, John Lockwood, Cheryl Mendenhall, Karen Bartleson, Dale Edwards, Bo Cheng Lai, Ian Burgess, Saraju Mohanty, Jim Tschanz, Alan Mantooth
