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27 July 2009
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Design Automation Conference Announces Winners of 2009 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest
The 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC) announced the winners of the annual DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest. The awards will be presented today at 5 p.m. in the DAC Pavilion (Booth #1928) on the exhibit floor. Each winning team will receive a $2,000 cash award, courtesy of DAC, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, and other contest sponsors. The winning submissions will be displayed as posters at the DAC University Booth (Booth #1828), also on the exhibit floor. The 46th DAC is being held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The nine winning teams were selected from more than 60 entries in three categories: operational chip design, for an IC design which was built and tested; system design, for FPGA or other programmable architectures; and conceptual design, in which a project was designed and simulated, but not necessarily implemented. The 2009 Student Design Contest co-chairs are Bill Bowhill, senior principal engineer, Intel Massachusetts, and Byunghoo Jung, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Purdue University.
2009 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winners
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Smart Memories Polymorphic Chip Multiprocessor |
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Ofer Shacham, Zain Asgar, Han Chen, Amin Firoozshahian, Rehan Hameed, Christos Kozyrakis, Wajahat Qadeer, Stephen Richardson, Alexandre Solomatnikov, Don Stark, Megan Wachs, Mark Horowitz – Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. |
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Large-Scale SRAM Variability Characterization Chip in 45nm CMOS |
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Zheng Guo, Andrew Carlson, Liang-Teck Pang, Kenneth Duong, Tsu-Jae King Liu, Borivoje Nikolic – University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif. |
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A 600MS/s 30mW 0.13μm CMOS ADC Array Achieving over 60dB SFDR with Adaptive Digital Equalization |
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Wenbo Liu, Yun Chiu – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill. |
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A 212MPixels/s 4096x2160p Multiview Video Encoder Chip for 3D/Quad HDTV Applications |
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Li-Fu Ding, Wei-Yin Chen, Pei-Kuei Tsung, Tzu-Der Chuang, Pai-Heng Hsiao, Yu-Han Chen, Shao-Yi Chien, Liang-Gee Chen – National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan |
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A Fully-Automated Process Characterization Macro for Gate Dielectric Breakdown |
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John Keane, Shrinivas Venkatraman, Chris H. Kim – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. |
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Paulo F. Butzen – University Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
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A Heterogeneous MPSOC with Hardware Supported Dynamic Task Scheduling for Software Defined Radio |
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Torsten Limberg, Markus Winter, Marcel Bimberg, Reimund Klemm, Marcos Tavares, Holger Eisenreich, Georg Ellguth, Jens-Uwe Schlüßler, Emil Matus, Gerhard Fettweis – Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
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Hendrik Ahlendorf – ZMD AG, Dresden, Germany |
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An Ultrasensitive CMOS Magnetic Biosensor Array for Point-Of-Care (POC) Microarray Application |
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Hua Wang, Ali Hajimiri – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. |
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Phoenix: An Ultra-Low Power Processor for Cubic Millimeter Sensor Systems |
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Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Yu-Shiang Lin, Zhiyoong Foo, Daeyeon Kim, Yoonmyung Lee, Nurrachman Liu, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. |
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A 1.2V 26mW Configurable Multiuser Mobile MIMO-OFDM/-OFDMA Baseband Processor |
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Jung-Mao Lin, Hsin-Yi Yu, Yu-Jen Wu, Hsi-Pin Ma – National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan |
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 partnered with ISSCC to jointly 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 ISSCC, the contest is sponsored by Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Mentor Graphics Corp., the Semiconductor Research Corporation and Synopsys, Inc., as well as the Special Interest Group on Design Automation of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGDA) and the Council on Electronic Design Automation of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE CEDA).
Contest Criteria
To be eligible, a design must be part of the students’ course or research work at a university and must have been completed within the 18 months prior to the submission deadline. Full-time graduate and undergraduate students interested in the 2010 Student Design Contest should visit the DAC Web site for the call for entries. Past winner and more details are available online.
Registration
Access to the DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Awards Presentation is included with Free Monday registration. For more information, and to register for Free Monday, Exhibits-Only or Full Conference attendance at DAC, visit http://www.dac.com/46th/index.aspx or go directly to https://onsite4.onsite.mpassociates.com/reglive/register.aspx?confid=95. All DAC registration options, including Free Monday, will also be available onsite.
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