To encourage university students to design Intellectual Property (IP) blocks, Swedish System-on-Chip venture Socware has organised a competition. Winners will to go to DAC in New Orleans next year.
"We want to stimulate interest in this way of working. And we also want to make the industry aware of the fact that there are many talented students in this field," says Rolf Rising at Socware, the state-funded Swedish System-on-Chip competence venture.
The IP competition is open to all undergraduate university students in Sweden. Elektroniktidningen reports that graduation projects are considered as natural entries, and students who wants to take part in the competition can do so through their tutors.
All entries should be in by the end of January, and the winners will be selected during February. Three professors and two industry representatives make up the jury, and will choose three winners, who apart from the honour of winning also get one-week trips to the Design Automation Conference, DAC, in New Orleans in June 2002.
The organisers are expecting some 40 entries for the competition, which will be a yearly event from now on.
The IP competition is open to all undergraduate university students in Sweden. Elektroniktidningen reports that graduation projects are considered as natural entries, and students who wants to take part in the competition can do so through their tutors.
All entries should be in by the end of January, and the winners will be selected during February. Three professors and two industry representatives make up the jury, and will choose three winners, who apart from the honour of winning also get one-week trips to the Design Automation Conference, DAC, in New Orleans in June 2002.
The organisers are expecting some 40 entries for the competition, which will be a yearly event from now on.
Gittan Cedervall