43rd DAC | SDC 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. di Pisa, Pisa, Italy Bert Gyselinckx, Liesbet Van der Perre, Geert Van der Plas - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

2nd Place (tie) – Increasing the Time Dynamic Range of Pulse Measurement Techniques in Digital CMOS
Mona Safi-Harb, Gordon W. Roberts - McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

2nd Place (tie) – A DSP Enabled Microsystem for Cochlear Implants with Hybrid LC Clocking
Eric D. Marsman, Robert M. Senger - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Richard B. Brown - Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

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., Min-Hsiung Taiwan

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, CA
Ingrid Verbauwhede - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA and K.U. Katholieke Univ., Leuven Belgium

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, CA

3rd Place – An Ultra Low Power Wireless Micro-Sensor Node
Denis Daly, Daniel Finchelstein, Nathan Ickes, Naveen Verma, Anantha Chandrakasan - Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

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

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., Tokyo, Japan