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Student Design Contest – VLSI 2008
The aim of the student contest is to promote excellence in the design of electronics systems in universities and educational establishments by providing a venue for students to showcase their designs.
Criteria for entry to the design contest in VLSI 2008
For VLSI 2008, we solicit entries for the design contest from full-time graduate and undergraduate students.
Criteria for submission
- Submissions are invited from full-time students from the academic year 2006-2007
- The design and implementation should have taken place within 24 months prior to the submission deadline as part of the student’s course or research work at the university.
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Design Contest scope
Designs can be for analog, digital, or programmable circuits and systems. Submitted designs can be embodied as digital or analog integrated circuits, programmable processors, SoCs, platform-based or embedded systems designs. Designs/projects fields include
- Digital Integrated Circuits
- Analog Integrated Circuits
- FPGA based designs
- Computer Architectures/ Processors
- Reconfigurable Computing Systems
- SoC / Platform-based designs
- Embedded Systems
- MEMS/Optics/Bio-Chips
- Innovative Design Methodolgies and Verification Techniques.
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Design Categories
Entries can be in the categories of integrated circuits and electronic systems (board-level designs). There will be two categories for deciding the prizes: Operational and Conceptual.
- will have been build and tested. For these entries, proof of implementation must be provided in the form of die and board photographs along with measurement data.
- need not have been implemented but must be thoroughly simulated and should include a detailed test plan.
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Each awarded design will be given an opportunity to make a short presentation at a special session of VLSI DESIGN 2007. A digest of each design to be presented will be included in the conference proceedings. |
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Evaluation Criteria
A panel of experts from industry and academia will judge the submissions. Submitted designs will be reviewed in a process similar to the review process for the technical papers. The following list provides some of the criteria that will be applied in the selection of designs:
- Motivation/Justification for design
- Description of the design process
- Reliability of design and implementation,
- Quality of implementation
- Performance of the design
- Novelty of application, algorithm, architecture
- Testing strategy (or Simulation for the conceptual category) and results
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You may want to address some of the following questions and issues in your written report: |
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System Overview
- Motivation for designing the chip or system.
- Is the implementation medium appropriate?
- Does this design satisfy the system requirements?
- What is unique about this project?
- What novel ideas or elegant solutions does the design include?
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Implementation and engineering considerations:
- Specifications: functional, timing, electrical, and environmental (temperature).
- Trade-offs: architectural and circuit trade-offs, I/O considerations, floor-planning and interconnect approaches. Emphasis should be placed on why you did what you did.
- Timing and Critical Paths. What clocking scheme is used? Why?
- Which paths are critical? Have you simulated or measured their delays?
- Block Diagram, Logic / Circuit Diagrams, and Algorithms.
- Photo or Final Layout Plot (annotate so various blocks can be identified).
- Verification/Simulation (keep it brief): how did you assure that the chip would work as specified?
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Testing:
- How did you, or will you, test this part with I/O pins only?
- What test equipment did you use?
- Actual test results, if available, should be summarized.
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Statistics:
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Die size, total power, number of transistors, density of layout, maximum clock speed, etc. |
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Submissions
to submit your designs.
Your submission should meet the following requirements
1. The cover page should include
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a.indication that it is an application for University Design Contest |
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b.title of the design |
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c.authors and affiliations |
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d.speaker |
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e.mailing address, Phone No., Fax No., and e-mail address of the contact author |
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f.area of the application and implementation method, expressed using the codes shown in the above Areas of |
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g.contribution of each group, if the prototype is jointly developed with non-academic parties |
2. The summary is requested to be written within 4 single spaced pages, including figures, tables, and references.
3. It is strongly recommended that measured experimental results and a chip micrograph or a photograph of the hardware prototype should be included. If the experimental results and the photograph have not been prepared before the deadline of submission, the authors can send the revised paper including them later. |
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