Student Design Contest Co-Chairs

Byunghoo Jung
Purdue Univ.
West Lafayette, IN
Bill Bowhill
Intel Corp.
Hudson, MA

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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2008 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winners

A 242mW, 10mm2 1080p H.264/AVC High Profile Encoder Chip


Yu-Kun Lin, De-Wei Li, Chia-Chun Lin, Tzu-Yun Kuo, Sian-Jin Wu, Wei-Cheng Tai, Wei-Cheng Chang,Tian-Sheuan Chang - National Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

A Low Power Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensor System


Taeg Sang Cho, Kyeong-jae Lee, Jing Kong, Anantha P. Chandrakasan - Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

iVisual: An Intelligent Visual Sensor SoC with 2790fps CMOS Image Sensor and 205GOPS/W Vision Processor


Chih-Chi Cheng, Chia-Hua Lin, Chung-Te Li, Liang-Gee Chen - National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Samuel C. Chang - Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

XCXO: An Ultra-low Cost Ultra-high Accuracy Clock System for Wireless Sensor Networks in Harsh Remote Outdoor Environments


Thomas Schmid, Jonathan Friedman, Zainul Charbiwala, Young H. Cho, Mani B. Srivastava - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

Vision Platform for Mobile Intelligent Robot Based on 81.6 GOPS Object Recognition Processor


Donghyun Kim, Kwanho Kim, Joo-Young Kim, Seungjin Lee, Hoi-Jun Yoo - KAIST, Daejon, Republic of Korea

A MIPS R2000 Implementation


Nathaniel Pinckney, Thomas Barr, Michael Dayringer, Matthew McKnett, Nan Jiang, Carl Nygaard,
David Money Harris, - Harvey Mudd College
Joel Stanley, Braden Phillips - The Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

PicoCube: A 1cm3 Sensor Node Powered by Harvested Energy


Yuen-Hui Chee, Mike Koplow, Michael Mark, Nathan Pletcher, Mike Seeman, Fred Burghardt, Dan Steingart,
Jan Rabaey, Paul Wright, Seth Sanders - Univ.of California at Berkeley, CA

A 3Gbps/30K-Rule Virus-Detection Processor Embedded with Adaptively Dividable Dual-Port BiTCAM for Mobile Devices


Chieh-Jen Cheng, Chao-Ching Wang, Kuan-Ching Chuang, Tai-An Chen, Tien-Fu Chen, Jinn-Shyan Wang - National Chung-Cheng Univ, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Silicon Odometer: An On-Chip Reliability Monitor for Measuring Frequency Degradation of Digital Circuits


Tae-Hyoung Kim, Randy Persaud, Chris H. Kim - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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