44th Design Automation Conference Announces Winners of 2007 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest.BOULDER, Colo. -- The Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ), the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event, has announced the winners of its annual student design contest. The awards will be presented on Monday, June 4, 2007, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Booth 6360. Each winner will receive $2,000.00 in prize money provided by this year's engineering community and corporate sponsors. Winning submissions also will be displayed as posters at the DAC University Booth on the exhibit floor. DAC will be held in San Diego, Calif., at the San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. , June 4 - 8, 2007. The nine winners, selected from nearly 50 entries, were recognized from three categories: operational chip design, for an IC design which was built and tested; operational system design, for FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. or other programmable architectures; and conceptual, in which a project was designed and simulated, but not necessarily implemented. This year's Student Design Contest co-chairs are Bill Bowhill, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Massachusetts; Byunghoo Jung, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University; and Alan Mantooth, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas strives to be known as a "nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world." The school recently completed its "Campaign for the 21st Century," in which the university raised more than $1 billion for the school, used . [TABLE OMITTED] Contest Criteria 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. 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 submission deadline. Full-time graduate and undergraduate students interested in the 2008 Student Design Contest should check the DAC Web site for the call for entries, which will be available in the 44th DAC Proceedings in June. Past winners and more details are available online: http://www.dac.com/44th/studcon.html. For more information on the Student Design Contest, contact next year's co-chairs: Bill Bowhill (bill.bowhill@intel.com) and Byunghoo Jung (jungb@purdue.edu). Industry and Corporate Dedication to Continued Education The Student Design Contest was founded by the University of Utah's Kent Smith in 1981, and has been managed by DAC since 2000. In 2002, DAC began partnering with ISSCC ISSCC International Solid State Circuits Conference ISSCC International Student Services Center Corporation Limited to promote and manage the contest. Each year, the successful tradition of the Student Design Contest is made possible by a group of engineering community and corporate sponsors. In addition to DAC and the ISSCC, this year's engineering community sponsors include the ACM/SIGDA, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Council on EDA (CEDA CEDA Cross Examination Debate Association CEDA Cross-Environment Data Access (SAS) CEDA Community Economic Development Association CEDA Centre for Economic Development and Administration (Nepal) ), the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society is a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It is also known by the acronym IEEE CASS. In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Circuits and Systems Society is one of close to 40 technical societies organized under and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC (SouRCe) Contrast with DST, which is an abbreviation of "destination." ). This year the corporate sponsors are Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Intel Corporation, Mentor Graphics Corp., Synopsys, Inc. and Tanner EDA. About DAC The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is the premier educational and networking event for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. More than 11,000 designers, developers, researchers, academics and managers from leading electronics companies and universities from around the world attend. DAC features close to 60 technical sessions covering the latest research on design methodologies and technologies, EDA developments and trends selected by a diverse committee of electronic design experts. A highlight is its Exhibition and Suite area with approximately 250 of the leading and emerging EDA, silicon and IP providers. More details are available at: www.dac.com. |
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