University LSI Design Contest

The University LSI Design Contest has been conceived as a unique program at ASP-DAC. The purpose of the contest is to encourage research in LSI design at universities and its realization on a chip by providing opportunities to present and discuss the innovative and state-of-the-art design. The scope of the contest covers circuit techniques for (1) Analog / RF / Mixed-Signal Circuits, (2) Digital Signal Processer, (3) Microprocessors, and (4) Custom Application Specific Circuits / Memories, and methodologies for (a) Full-Custom / Cell-Based LSIs, (b) Gate Arrays, and (c) Field Programmable Devices.

This year, the University LSI Design Contest Committee received 19 designs from three countries/areas, and selected 16 designs out of them. The selected designs will be disclosed in pre-recorded presentations and real-time on-line QA sessions are scheduled at Session 1A and 2A, January 18. For two outstanding designs, The Best Design Award and The Special Feature Award will be presented in the opening session. We sincerely acknowledge the other contributions to the contest, too. It is our earnest belief to promote and enhance research and education in LSI design in academic organizations. Please join the University LSI Design Contest and enjoy the stimulating discussions.

  • Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2021
  • Time (Live chat Q&A): 15:00 - 15:30 (Session 1A), 15:30 - 16:00 (Session 2A)
  • Co-chairs: Kousuke Miyaji (Shinshu University, Japan), Akira Tsuchiya (The University of Shiga Prefecture)
  • University LSI design contest committee
  • UDC Session Schedule I and II (html-version)
Title
1A-1 A DSM-based Polar Transmitter with 23.8% System Efficiency
1A-2 A 0.41W 34Gb/s 300GHz CMOS Wireless Transceiver
1A-3 Capacitive Sensor Circuit with Relative Slope-Boost Method Based on a Relaxation Oscillator
1A-4 28GHz Phase Shifter with Temperature Compensation for 5G NR Phased-array Transceiver
1A-5 An up to 35 dBc/Hz Phase Noise Improving Design Methodology for Differential-Ring-Oscillators applied in Ultra-Low Power Systems
1A-6 Gate Voltage Optimization in Capacitive DC-DC Converters for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
1A-7 An 0.57 GOPS/DSP Object Detection PIM Acceleratoron FPGA
1A-8 Supply Noise Reduction Filter for Parallel Integrated Transimpedance Amplifiers
2A-1 A 65nm CMOS Process Li-ion Battery Charging Cascode SIDO Boost Converter with 89% Maximum Efficiency for RF Wireless Power Transfer Receiver
2A-2 A High-Accuracy Phase and Amplitude Detection Circuit for Calibration of 28GHz Phased Array Beamformer System
2A-3 A Highly Integrated Energy-efficient CMOS Millimeter-wave Transceiver with Direct-modulation Digital Transmitter, Quadrature Phased-coupled Frequency Synthesizer and Substrate-Integrated Waveguide E-shaped Patch Antenna
2A-4 A 3D-Stacked SRAM Using Inductive Coupling Technology for AI Inference Accelerator in 40-nm CMOS
2A-5 Sub-10-μm Coil Design for Multi-Hop Inductive Coupling Interface
2A-6 Current-Starved Chaotic Oscillator Over Multiple Frequency Decades on Low-Cost CMOS
2A-7 TCI tester: Tester for Through Chip Interface
2A-8 An 18 Bit Time-to-Digital Converter Design with Large Dynamic Range and Automated Multi-Cycle Concept
Last Updated on: December 9, 2020