ZiLOG Flash for Cash Design Contest Flooded with Entries from Around the Globe.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 2003 ZiLOG, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :ZILG), the creator of the Z80 microprocessor and a leading innovator of integrated 8-bit microcontroller solutions, announced today that its Flash for Cash design contest has attracted over 600 entries from all over the world. The contest will close to new entries on October 31, 2003. Engineers are competing for fourteen cash prizes worth a total of $20,000. The contest encourages designers to develop creative applications or to update a proven technology using a ZiLOG Z8 Encore!(R) Flash microcontroller. To enter, the designer must submit a 500-word abstract on any working electronics project based on the Z8 Encore! Flash microcontroller, along with an entry form. A panel of independent judges will choose contest winners on the basis of technical merit, originality, usefulness, cost-effectiveness and design optimization See automatic design optimization. . While supplies last, contestants will be provided with a Z8 Encore! Smart Cable Demonstration Board, which includes a Smart Cable serial PC-connected programming board, two 40-pin DIP Z8F6401 samples, graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) software, ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. C-Compiler, sample code, and device driver software. For complete rules and entry form for the design contest, visit ZiLOG's Web site at www.zilog.com/contest. About ZiLOG, Inc. ZiLOG, Inc. (OTCBB:ZILG) is world renowned for its Z8 and Z80 8-bit microcontroller architectures. ZiLOG has shipped over 1.4BN units of its core microcontroller products across the world since their introduction. ZiLOG continues to innovate across these award-winning architectures and is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of integrated microcontroller solutions for embedded control markets, including consumer, commercial and industrial control markets. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., ZiLOG employs approximately 700 people worldwide and has sales offices throughout Asia, Europe and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . For more information about ZiLOG and its award winning products such as the eZ80Acclaim! and the Z8Encore!(R) Flash microcontroller families, visit the company's Web site at: http://www.ZiLOG.com. |
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