Cadence Design Contest 2014 Open Project

In this project, students can submit a project on any digital, analog, or board design as per the guidelines. Categories There will be two categories for which prizes will be given. A winner will be chosen in both of these categories: 1. Full-time BE/BTech students 2. Full-time ME/MTech students Design Requirements Submissions for both categories should be in analog, digital, or board design and can be in either of the following two design areas: Operational chip design - designs have been implemented and tested Conceptual design - need not have been implemented but must have been thoroughly simulated and must include a test plan Evaluation Criteria Submissions are judged by an expert committee, comprised of representatives from the industry and Cadence experts, on pre-defined criteria including: Inventiveness Complexity and feasibility of project Breadth of design Effective use of Cadence technologies Presentation and clarity of communication Prize: Winner in Bachelor's category - Rs. 25,000 per team member to the maximum of Rs. 1 lakh. Guide of winning Bachelor's project - Rs. 35,000. Runner up in Bachelor's category - Rs. 20,000 for the team (including guide) Winner in Master's category - Rs. 28,000 per team member to a maximum of Rs. 1.12 lakh. Guide of winning Master's project - Rs. 40,000 Runner up in the Master's category - Rs. 25,000 for the team (including guide) Timeline Call for papers open Call for papers closed Submitters informed - first round Papers due from submitters - second round Submitters informed - second round Top teams final live presentation Winners announced How to Submit 20 Jan 2014 28 Feb 2014 4 April 2014 2 May 2014 13 June 2014 8 July 2014 10 July 2014

Click on the Submit an Abstract link at the end of this page to go to the registration form Fill in the Registration Form; once you click Submit at the end of the page you will get a link to download the abstract submission form Download and save the form All mandatory fields of the abstract submission form must be filled in full, incomplete forms will not be accepted Please email your abstract submission form in Word format ONLY (no PDFs) to (designcontest_india@cadence.com) Abstract must be a maximum of 350 words around 1 pages

Contest Rules The university/institute must be enrolled as part of the Cadence University Program at the time of submitting the abstract for the Contest Maximum of four students per submission The design work submission must have taken place as part of the students' course or research work at the university/institute, and must have been completed within 12 months prior to the submission deadline All designs must use predominantly Cadence technology Diagrams are allowed Abstract must provide high level specs/framework with measurable parameters that demonstrate the project's uniqueness, such as: o The intended product/application (specify domains where this will be valuable) o Enhanced low-power consumption (capability to run off battery power for longer) o Increased performance (increase of throughput and time saving achieved) o Newer functionality introduced o Verifications frameworks used Abstract must clearly describe how Cadence tools helped in the design analysis, decisions, and debugging Abstract must quantify the completeness of the implementation versus original specifications of the project/design work; gaps in implementation must be identified and their impact to the original intent of the project/design work must be evaluated Some project titles from previous Cadence Design Contests: BE/BTech category o Power and Data Recovery for Cochlear Implant o Design and Implementation of Low Power Pipelined FFT Processors Using Self Timed Adders o Design of Low-Drop-Out, High-PSRR LDO for RF Applications ME/MTech category o A Low-Power Asynchronous SAR ADC using 180nm CMOS Technology o Low-Power, Low-Noise Signal-Conditioning Chip with Differential Resistance to Frequency Converter for Resistive Bridge Sensors

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