DAC/ISSCC student design contest promotes excellence

Founded in 1981 and incorporated into the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in partnership with the Design Automation Conference in 2002, the Student Design Contest has become a premier international competition for electronic systems designs prepared by graduate and undergraduate students as part of their studies. “Both DAC and ISSCC are the renowned conferences in IC design,” said “Elvis” Pui-In Mak, a winner of last year's 42nd annual competition. “Their jointly held contest, therefore, can be considered the number one contest among all the others. Winners represent ‘state-of-the-art’ achievements in IC design.”