40th DAC | SDC WINNERS

OPERATIONAL CATEGORY

1st Place (Best Overall)
A Computationally Efficient ASIC Implementation for the Decoding of Space-Time Block Codes
Enver Cavus, Babak Daneshrad - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

2nd Place
A Low-Energy Chip-Set for Wireless Intercom (Session 52.2)
Josie Ammer, Michael Sheets, Tufan C. Karalar, Mika Kuulusa, Jan Rabaey - Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

3rd Place
Energy-Aware Design of a Real-Valued FFT
Alice Wang, Anantha Chandrakasan - Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY

1st Place
A 16-Bit Mixed-Signal Microsystem with Integrated CMOS-MEMS Clock Reference (Session 31.1)
Robert M. Senger, Matthew Guthaus, Eric D. Marsman, Michael S. McCorquodale, Fadi H. Gebara, Keith L. Kraver, Richard B. Brown - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2nd Place
An Integrated Thermally-Based Microflow Sensor
Masoud Agah, Yang Li, Robert M. Senger, Kensall D. Wise - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Towards A Button-Sized 1024-Site Wireless Cortical Microstimulating Array (Operational)
Maysam Ghovanloo, Khalil Najafi - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Design Flow for HW/SW Acceleration Transparency in the ThumbPod Secure Embedded System (Conceptual) (Session 5.1)
David Hwang, Patrick Schaumont, Yi Fan, Alireza Hodjat, Bo Cheng Lai, Kazuo Sakiyama, Shenglin Yang, Ingrid Verbauwhede - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

Analog Turbo Decoder Implemented in SiGe BiCMOS Technolgy
Wei Huang, Vinay Igure, Garrett Rose, Yan Zhang, Mircea Stan - Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Design of a High Performance Security Coprocessor
Yunqing Chen, Jun Cheng, Tsung Hsing Hu, Jerry Kao - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI