Trenz Electronic announces the Digilent Design Contest 2012

Digilent invites students throughout the world to put their design skills to the test using Digilent FPGA and MCU development tools.

Challenge

The contest is open to all students and the goal is to develop innovative projects using Digilent products. Projects normally fall into two categories: these are FPGA designs and microcontroller designs.

Digital design projects feature Digilent's Xilinx based FPGA boards, developed in environments such as Xilinx ISE WebPack or ISE Foundation, National Instruments LabView, etc.
Microcontroller projects feature Digilent's Microchip PIC-based embedded control boards, developed in environments such as Microchip MPLAB, MPIDE, etc.
This year, projects may also be developed on Digilent’s chipKIT line of Arduino compatible development kits.

This contest is open to all university students and will be held in a number of regions around the world. Projects can be entered by individuals or students working in pairs. To register you will need to submit the registration document along with a general specification document for your proposed project. You will need to submit your project proposal to the region nearest you. (Check back as new regional contests will be announced)

Prizes

Digilent will be awarding generous prizes to the top finishers. Also, as a courtesy from Digilent, all participants who present their projects in the final regional contest will get to keep the Digilent hardware they used for their work, even if they do not receive a prize

Resources

The following are two well-received design contest seminars given by Digilent's own technical writer, Tom Isenberg. Past contestants have found these to be very helpful in the preparation of their presentations and written reports.

"Guidelines for Reports and Presentations": DOWNLOAD (ASF)
"Business Communications: Advice for New Engineers": DOWNLOAD (ASF)

Samples

Here are some samples of excellent submission from previous contests.

Presentation Sample - DigitalSynth: (PowerPoint)
Report Sample - FPGA for Life: (PDF)
Report Sample - DigitalSynth: (PDF)

Worldwide Finals

Check back as worldwide finals will be announced.

Regional Info

EU region: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Nov 16, 2011 - Registration begins
Dec 23, 2011 - Registration ends
Dec 23-Jan 15, 2012 - Enrollment acceptance & hardware distribution begins
Jan 15-30, 2012 - Confirm the receipt of hardware
Apr 10-15, 2012 - Pre-evaluation report submission
Apr 25, 2012 - Approval of final project reports and presentations
May 7, 2012 - Submission of final project reports and presentations
May 12-13, 2012 - Final presentations in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Information Packet: This zip file contains the registration form, rules document, and guidelines & templates you'll need to submit your project.

EU Contest Poster

To register or receive more information: ContestEU(at)digilentinc.com

Further References

For more information please visit: http://www.digilentinc.com/events/ddc2012/

About Trenz Electronic

Trenz Electronic offers custom development, as well as ARM and FPGA modules. Trenz supports its customers from product specification, hardware design, firmware development up to prototyping and production. Trenz is particularly specialized in the design of high-speed data acquisition, high-accuracy measurement systems and embedded digital signal processing with FPGA and ARM-based architectures.

Editorial contact:
Mr Thorsten Trenz
Trenz Electronic GmbH
+49 5223 41652
info(at)trenz-electronic.de
http://www.trenz-electronic.de/

About Digilent

Digilent is an industry leader in providing academic and research solutions in high-end electronics. Over 1,000 universities, training centers, and research laboratories in more than 70 countries use Digilent products and services. Digilent also provides design and manufacturing services for many leading technology companies including Xilinx, Cypress Semiconductor, and National Instruments.

Corporate headquarters are in Pullman, Washington with satellite offices in China, Romania, and Taiwan.

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