The purpose of the Student Design Contest is to promote excellence in the design of electronic systems by providing competition between graduate and undergraduate students at universities and colleges.

OPERATIONAL CATEGORY
1st Place $4,000
(session 41.1) AUnlocking the Design Secrets of a 2.29 Gb/s Rijndael Processor
Patrick R. Schaumont, Ingrid M. Verbauwhede, Henry Kuo - University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2nd Place $2,500
System Design of iBadge for Smart Kindergarten
Ivo Locher, Sung I. Park, Andreas Savvides, Mani Srivastava - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
3rd Place (tie) $1,500
A Low Noise Switched-Capacitor Interface Electronics for Sub-micro Gravity Resolution Micromachined Accelerometers
Haluk Kulah - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
3rd Place (tie) $1,500
Low-Jitter Power-Aware Non-PLL Clock Generator for GHz Microprocessors
Chulwoo Kim, Inchul Hwang - Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Sung Mo Kang - Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA

CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY
1st Place $4,000, SDC Best Paper $1000
A Microsystem for Near-Patient Accelerated Clotting Time Blood Tests
Steven M. Martin, Roy H. Olsson, Richard B. Brown - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2nd Place $2,500
Design of a Crossbar Switch Chip for Use in a Demonstration System of an Optoelectronic Multi-Chip Module
Jason D. Bakos, Donald M. Chiarulli - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
3rd Place $1,500
Highly Parallel DNA Sequence Matching and Alignment Processor
A. T. Patzer - Duke Univ., Durham, NC

HONORABLE MENTIONS $500
A Low-Power Line Driver Using Resonant Charging With Reduced High-Order Frequency Components
Clemens Schlachta, Burkart Voss, Manfred Glesner - Darmstadt Univ., Darmstadt, Germany
(session 29.4) Systematic Design of a 200 Ms/s 8-bit Interpolating/Averaging A/D Converter
Jan Vandenbussche - Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium
Power Minimization for Digital Optical Interconnects
Xiaoqing Wang, Fouad Kiamilev, Jeremy Ekman - Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE

   The contest will allow entries of both integrated circuits and electronic systems (board-level design). It will have two categories: 'Operational' and 'Conceptual'.
    Operational designs will have been implemented and tested. Proof of implementation in the form of die- or board-photographs and measurement data must be supplied.
     Conceptual designs need not have been implemented but must have been thoroughly simulated and must include a test plan.

CRITERIA FOR ENTERING THE CONTEST
    Submissions are invited from full-time graduate and undergraduate students. The design must have taken place as part of the students' course or research work at the university and must have been completed within 18 months prior to the submission deadline.
    Submissions are made electronically via the DAC web site. Submissions should not exceed 6000 words should include a 60-word abstract (recommended length of 4000 words). The deadline for submission is December 20, 2002.
    It is appropriate for a professor to be included as a co-author if he/she was instrumental in the student(s) approach to the design, or provided other guidance that contributed to the success of the design.
    Submissions are judged by a panel of experts including members of the DAC Technical Program Committee and other representatives from the industry. Judging criteria includes originality, soundness of engineering, measured performance and the quality of the written submission. Winners will be notified in mid-February.