Electronic Companies Encouraged to Lend Financial Support for Program to Promote Excellence in Electronic Systems Design
BOULDER, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 1, 2005— Submissions are being accepted through Dec. 8 for the prestigious annual Student Design Contest, jointly sponsored by the Design Automation Conference (DAC) and the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). In addition, the contest is made possible through the contributions of corporate sponsors who are encouraged to provide financial support for this year's contest. An award ceremony will be held during DAC, the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event, to be held July 24-28, 2006, at Moscone Center in San Francisco.This year's Student Design Contest co-chairs are Bill Bowhill, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Massachusetts, and Alan Mantooth, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas.
"The DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest is unique in the industry for the opportunities it offers to its winners and sponsors," said Mantooth. "The contest provides competition between graduate and undergraduate students at universities and colleges worldwide, while also giving them a chance to demonstrate their experience to sponsor company representatives who serve as judges."
Criteria for Entering, Awards and Honors
The contest accepts designs for analog, digital or programmable circuits and systems. Submissions can be embodied as integrated circuits (ICs), reconfigurable processors, systems on chips (SoCs), platform-based or embedded systems designs.
Submissions are invited from full-time graduate and undergraduate students in three categories: operational, which means that an IC design was built and tested; system design, which focuses on FPGA or other programmable architectures; and conceptual, where a project was designed and simulated. The design must be part of the students' course or research work at the university and must have been completed within 18 months prior to the Dec. 8, 2005 submission deadline.
The total prize money is expected to be close to $15,000, shared between first, second and third place winners in each category. Winners will be notified prior to the 43rd DAC and offered travel assistance to attend.
Winning submissions will be displayed as posters at the DAC University Booth on the exhibit floor. Selected winning entries may be included in the Technical Program, at the discretion of the Technical Program Committee. Winners will also be invited to present at a special poster session at ISSCC 2006 to be held in February in San Francisco.
In 2005, the Student Design Contest had 48 submissions from 14 countries and 34 schools.
Corporate Sponsorships Available
Professor Mantooth is actively soliciting electronics companies for $3,000 contributions to support the contest. As a sponsor, company representatives serve as judges and get first access to all design projects.
Last year's corporate sponsors included Cadence Design Systems, Intel, Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO), Mentor Graphics, Semiconductor Research Corporation(R) (SRC), Synopsys, Tanner EDA and Xilinx, along with industry support from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC), the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA).
Student Design Contest, Sponsorship Opportunity Details
For more details on the Student Design Contest, visit the DAC Web site: http://www.dac.com/43rd/studcon.html. To find out more about sponsorship opportunities, contact Alan Mantooth at 479-575-4838 or via email at mantooth@uark.edu.
About DAC
DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry to exchange information on products, methodologies and processes. Attended by more than 10,000 developers, designers, researchers, managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and universities around the world, DAC includes more than 200 exhibitors and offers a robust technical program covering the electronics industry's hottest trends to bring people to the event.
The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Circuits and Systems Society and Computer Aided Network Design Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CANDE), and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are found at: www.dac.com.
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