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47th SDC Winners

Student Design Contest Co-Chairs
Byunghoo Jung Purdue Univ. West Lafayette, IN	Kerry Bernstein Applied Research Associates, Inc. South Royalton, VT

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, by ISSCC, and by a set of corporate sponsors.

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47th Student Design Contest Winners
A 59.5mW Scalable/Multi-View Video Decoder Chip for Quad/3D Full HDTV and Video Streaming Applications

Tzu-Der Chuang, Pei-Kuei Tsung, Pin-Chun Lin, Lo-Mei Chang, Tsung-Chuan Ma, Yi-Hau Chen, Yu-Han Chen, Chuan-Yung Tsai, Liang-Gee Chen – National Taiwan Univ.

The Bumblebee: A 0.3 Gram, 560µW, 0.1cm3 Wireless Biosignal Interface with 10-m Range

Tim D. Morrison, Fan Zhang, Shailesh Rai, Jagdish Pandey, Jeremy Holleman, Brian Otis – Univ. of Washington

A 2.89mW 50GOPS 16x16 16-Core MIMO Sphere Decoder

Chia-Hsiang Yang, Dejan Markovic – Univ. of California, Los Angeles

A Real-Time Embedded Vision System with 201.4GOPS 496mW Object Recognition Processor

Joo-Young Kim, Seungjin Lee, Minsu Kim, Jinwook Oh, Hoi-Jun Yoo – KAIST

A 0.8-V 32-fJ/Conversion-Step Dual-Capacitive-Array Successive Approximation Analog-to-Digital Converter

Wen-Sin Liew - National Univ. of Singapore

A 0.5mm2 Power Scalable 0.5-3.8GHz CMOS DT-SDR Receiver with 2nd Order RF Band-Pass Sampler

Arnd Geis, Julien Ryckaert – IMEC

Gerd Vandersteen, Yves Rolain - Vrije Univ. Brussel