The purpose of the DAC/ISSCC 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. The Student Design Contest is jointly sponsored by DAC and its sponsors, ISSCC as well as the corporate sponsors named below.

42nd STUDENT DESIGN CONTEST supported by:


42nd DAC/ISSCC STUDENT DESIGN CONTEST WINNERS

OPERATIONAL CATEGORY
1st Place (Best Overall)
A 50MS/s (35mW) to 1kS/s (15 µW) Power Scaleable 10b Pipelined ADC with Minimal Bias Current Variation
Imran Ahmed, David Johns - Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON. Canada
2nd Place – A 1.3 TOPS H.264/AVC Single-Chip Encoder for HDTV Applications
Tung-Chien Chen, Yu-Wen Huang, Chen-Han Tsai, Ching-Yeh Chen, To-Wei Chen, Liang-Gee Chen - National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
3rd Place – A Side-Channel Leakage Free Coprocessor IC in 0.18µm CMOS for Embedded AES-based Cryptographic and Biometric Processing
Kris Tiri, David Hwang, Alireza Hodjat, Bo-Cheng Lai, Shenglin Yang, Patrick Schaumont, Ingrid Verbauwhede - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY
1st Place – Design and Implementation of a Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for Cellular Systems
Petrus J. Venter, Saurabh Sinha - Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
2nd Place – A 1-V IEEE 802.11a/b/g-Compliant Receiver IF-to-Baseband Chip in 0.35µm CMOS for Low-Cost Wireless SiP
Pui-In Mak, Rui P. Martins - Univ. of Macau, Macao SAR, China
Seng-Pan U - Chipidea Microelectronics (Macau) Ltd., Macao SAR, China
3rd Place – Collision Detection System using an FPGA Implemented on the FPX Platform
Hasan N. Atay, Burchan Bayazit, John W. Lockwood - Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO