Design Automation Conference & IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference Now Accepting Submissions for Student Design Contest Submissions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002 Annual Award Promotes Excellence in the Design of Electronic Systems by Graduate and Undergraduate Students Submissions are now being accepted for the Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ) and 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. International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC ISSCC International Solid State Circuits Conference ISSCC International Student Services Center Corporation Limited ) Student Design Contest. The contest aims to promote electronic systems design excellence in the form of competition among graduate and undergraduate students at universities and colleges, worldwide. The deadline for submission is Friday, December 20, 2002. Awards totaling $20,000 will be presented at the 40th annual DAC, held June 2-6, 2003, at the Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities. in Anaheim, California “Anaheim” redirects here. For Annaheim, see Annaheim, Saskatchewan. Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, located 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles. . "An important part of our industry is to encourage and support education and innovation for future technology advancement," said Steven P. Levitan, Student Design Contest co-chair and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. "DAC is proud to continue our tradition of sponsoring the Student Design Contest and to recognize universities and students who are advancing the electronic design automation field." The Student Design Contest, sponsored by numerous electronics companies, promotes excellence in the design of electronic systems. The contest is accepting entries of both integrated circuits and electronic systems and will award a total of $20,000 in recognition of undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate excellence in the development of operational and conceptual designs. Winners will be invited to present their work at both DAC 2003 and ISSCC 2004. Co-chairs for this year's contest include: Steven P. Levitan, University of Pittsburgh, Alan Mantooth, 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 , and David Greenhill, Sun Microsystems. Additional information, and last year's winners, can be found at http://www.dac.com/40th/studcon.html. 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 150 exhibitors and offers a robust technical program covering the electronics industry's hottest trends. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing (body) Association for Computing - (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific and educational computer society in the industry. Machinery/Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Circuits and Systems Society (IEEE/CAS) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. Consortium). For more information, including registration, visit the DAC Web site at www.dac.com, or contact DAC management at 1-800-321-4573. |
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