DAC 2002 Student Design Contest Winners

Operational Category: 1st Place Design and Performance Testing of a 2.29 Gb/s Rijndael Processor (session 41.1) Patrick R. Schaumoont, Ingrid M. Verbauwhede, Henry Kuo - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA System Design of iBadge for Smart Kindergarten Ivo Locher, Sung I. Park, Andreas Savvides - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA A Low Noise Switched-Capacitor Interface Electronics for Sub-micro Gravity Resolution Micromachined Accelerometers Haluk Kulah - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2nd Place

3rd Place

Conceptual Category: 1st Place A Microsystem for Near-Patient Accelerated Clotting Time Blood Tests Steven M. Martin, Roy H. Olsson, Richard B. Brown - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Design of a Crossbar Switch Chip for Use in a Demonstration System of an Optoelectronic Multi-Chip Module Jason D. Bakos, Donald M. Chiarulli - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

2nd Place

3rd Place (tie) Highly Parallel DNA Sequence Matching and Alignment Processor A. T. Patzer - Duke Univ., Durham, NC 3rd Place (tie) Low-Jitter Power-Aware Non-PLL Clock Generator for GHz Microprocessors Chulwoo Kim, Inchul Hwang - Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL Sung Mo Kang - Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA Honorable Mention: A Low-Power Line Driver Using Resonant Charging With Reduced High-Order Frequency Components Clemens Schlachta, Burkart Voss, Manfred Glesner - Darmstadt Univ., Darmstadt, Germany Systematic Design of a 200 Ms/s 8-bit Interpolating/Averaging A/D Converter (session 29.4) Jan Vandenbussche - Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium Power Minimization for Digital Optical Interconnects Xiaoqing Wang, Fouad Kiamilev, Jeremy Ekman - Univ. of Delaware, Newark, Delaware