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STUDENT VLSI DESIGN CONTEST
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DATE: November 1999
TITLE: STUDENT VLSI DESIGN CONTEST 2000
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TITLE: STUDENT VLSI DESIGN CONTEST 2000
After 18 years, the Student VLSI Design Contest, established by Kent
Smith at the University of Utah, will be merged with the Design
Automation Conference's (DAC's) University Design Contest, to form the
new "Student Design Contest," described herein. We are writing to
solicit entries for it, which will be due December 15, 1999.
Our primary motivation for merging was to give the contest winners
national exposure. Winning projects will be displayed as posters in
the university booth on the DAC exhibition floor, and some papers may
be incorporated into the DAC professional program for oral
presentation. Prize money will be donated, as in the past, by
industrial companies, which will also provide the contest judges. The
dollar value of prizes is expected to be comparable to those which
have been awarded in the Student VLSI Contest. In addition, prize
winners will receive travel assistance to DAC to exhibit their designs
and receive their awards.
The new contest will allow entries of both integrated circuits and
electronic systems (board-level designs). It will have two
categories: Operational (built and tested) and Conceptual (designed
and simulated).
The DAC Design Methods Technical Program Committee (TCP) Co-chair
(currently Bryan Ackland) will appoint a member of the TPC to be the
Design Contest Subcommittee Chair. Richard Brown will serve in this
position for the year 2000 contest.
More detailed information follows.
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Student Design Contest
The purpose of the 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 contest will accept VLSI and System-level designs, that will be
judged in two categories: Conceptual and Operational. Operational
designs will 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.
Criteria for entering the Contest
Submissions are invited from full-time graduate and undergraduate
students. The design must have taken place as part of the students'
course or research work at the university and must have been completed
within 18 months prior to the submission deadline.
Submitting a Design
Submission will be in the DAC paper format, and will be done
electronically via the
dbouldin@utk.edu
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