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, ISSCC, and the award contributors named below.

2006 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winners

OPERATIONAL CHIP DESIGN CATEGORY
1st Place (Best Overall)
A 10.6mW/0.8pJ Power-Scalable 1 GS/s 4b ADC in 0.18um CMOS with
5.8GHz ERBW
Pierluigi Nuzzo, Fernando De Bernardinis, Pierangelo Terreni - Univ. of Pisa
Bert Gyselinckx, Liesbet Van der Perre, Geert Van der Plas - IMEC
2nd Place (tie) – Increasing the Time Dynamic Range of Pulse Measurement
Techniques in Digital CMOS
Mona Safi-Harb, Gordon W. Roberts - McGill Univ.
2nd Place (tie) – A DSP Enabled Microsystem for Cochlear Implants with
Hybrid LC Clocking
Eric D. Marsman, Robert M. Senger - Univ. of Michigan
Richard B. Brown - Univ. of Utah
3rd Place – A 160K Gates/4.5KB SRAM H.264 Video Decoder for HDTV
Applications
Chien-Chang Lin, Jia-Wei Chen, Hsiu-Cheng Chang, Chao-Ching Wang, Yi-Huan
Ou-Yang, Ming-Chih Tsai, Yao-Chang Yang, Jiun-In Guo, Jinn-Shyan Wang - National Chung Cheng Univ.

OPERATIONAL SYSTEM DESIGN CATEGORY
1st Place – Demonstration of Uncoordinated Multiple Access in Optical
Communications
Herwin Chan, Andres I. Vila Cadaso, Juthika Basak, Miguel Griot, Wen-Yen
Weng, Richard Wesel, B. Jalali, Eli Yablonovitch - Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Ingrid Verbauwhede - Univ. of California, Los Angeles and K.U. Leuven
2nd Place – Illumimote: A High Performance Light Sensor Module for Wireless Sensor Networks
Heemin Park, Jonathan Friedman, Mani B. Srivastava, Pablo Gutierrez, Vidyut
Samanta, Jeff Burke - Univ. of California, Los Angeles
3rd Place – An Ultra Low Power Wireless Micro-Sensor Node
Denis Daly, Daniel Finchelstein, Nathan Ickes, Naveen Verma, Anantha Chandrakasan - Massachusetts Institute of Tech.

Honorable Mention – Phase Delay Based Collision Avoidance RADAR for Smart Automobiles
Babu L. Saincha - Indian Institute of Information Tech., Allahabad

CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY
1st Place – ASIC Implementation of LDPC Decoder Accelerating Message-Passing Schedule
Kazunori Shimizu, Tatsuyuki Ishikawa, Nozomu Togawa, Takeshi Ikenaga, Satoshi Goto - Waseda Univ.

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