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, and the corporate sponsors named below.

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2007 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winners

A Wireless Implantable Microsystem for Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring
Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadi, Graham A. Jullien -  Univ. Of Calgary

Design of an Ultra-Low Voltage UWB Baseband Processor
Vivienne Sze, Anantha P. Chandrakasan - MIT

HBS: A Handheld Breast Cancer Detector Based on Frequency Domain Photon Migration
Keun Sik No, Qiang Xie, Pai H. Chou - Univ. of California, Irvine
Richard Kwong, Albert Cerussi, Bruce J. Tromberg - Beckman Laser Institute

An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Multiprocessor IC for DSP Applications
Guichang Zhong, Alan N. Willson, Jr. -  Univ. of California, Los Angeles

The Scale Vector-Thread Processor
Ronny Krashinsky, Christopher Batten, Krste Asanovic - MIT

A 94dB SFDR 78dB DR 2.2MHz BW Multi-bit Delta-Sigma Modulator with Noise Shaping DAC
Jianzhong Chen, Yong Ping Xu - National Univ. of Singapore

A 230mV-to-500mV 375KHz-to-16MHz 32b RISC Core in 0.18µm CMOS
Jian-Shiun Chen, Yi-Ming Wang, Yu-Juey Chang, Jinn-Shyan Wang, Tien-Fu Chen, Chingwei Yeh - Natl. Chung Cheng Univ.

A 152mW/195mW Multimedia Processor with Fully Programmable 3D Graphics and MPEG/H.264/JPEG for Handheld Devices
Jeong-Ho Woo,  Ju-Ho Sohn, Hyejung Kim, Hoi-Jun Yoo - KAIST
Euljoo Jeong, Jongcheol Jeong, Suk Joong Lee - Corelogic, Inc.

A 252Kgates/4.9Kbytes SRAM/71mW Multi-Standard Video Decoder for High Definition Video Applications
Chih-Da Chien, Yi-Hung Shih, Chien-Chang Lin, He-Chun Chen, Chih-Wei Wang, Cheng-Yen Yu, Jiun-In Guo – Natl. Chung Cheng Univ.
Chih-Liang Chen, Ching-Hwa Cheng - Feng-Chia Univ.

Top Row:
Ching Hwa Cheng, John Tanner, Chih-Da Chen, Yu-Juey Chang

Middle Row:
Byunghoo Jung, Ian Burgess, Yong Ping Xu, Brian Preas, Jeff Parkhurst, Steve Hillenius, Charles Shaw, Andreas Kuehlmann, Alan Willson, Juin-In Guo, Troy Wood, Yi-Hung Shih

Bottom Row:
Christopher Batten, Ronny Krashinsky, Vivienne Sze, Qiang Xie, Jeong-Ho Woo, Guichang Zhong, He-Chun Chen, Jian-Shiun Chen