University LSI Design Contest

The University LSI Design Contest was conceived as a unique program of ASP-DAC Conference. The purpose of the Contest is to encourage education and research in LSI design, and its realization on chips at universities, and other educational organizations by providing opportunities to present and discuss innovative and state-of- the-art designs at the conference. Application areas and types of circuits include:
(1) Analog, RF and Mixed-Signal Circuits,
(2) Digital Signal processing,
(3) Microprocessors, and
(4) Custom Application Specific Circuits and Memories.
Methods or technology used for implementation include:
(a) Full Custom and Cell-Based LSIs,
(b) Gate Arrays, and
(c) Field Programmable Devices, including FPGA/PLDs.
This year, 20 selected designs from six countries/areas will be disclosed in Session 4D with a short presentation followed by live discussions in front of posters with light meals. Submitted designs were reviewed by the members of the University Design Contest Committee. As a result, the 20 designs were selected. Also, we have instituted one outstanding design award from the selected designs.
 

It is with great pleasure that we acknowledge the contributions to the Design Contest, and it is our earnest belief that it will promote and enhance research and education in LSI design in academic organizations. It is also our hope that many people not only in academia but in industry will attend the contest and enjoy the stimulating discussions.

 

 

Time

Title

4D-1

10:30 - 10:35

Checker-Pattern and Shared Two Pixels LOFIC CMOS Image Sensors

4D-2

10:35 - 10:40

A CMOS Image Sensor With 2.0-e- Random Noise and 110-ke- Full Well Capacity Using Column Source Follower Readout Circuits

4D-3

10:40 - 10:45

Checkered White-RGB Color LOFIC CMOS Image Sensor

4D-4

10:45 - 10:50

A Versatile Recognition Processor for Sensor Network Applications

4D-5

10:50 - 10:55

A 2-6 GHz Fully Integrated Tunable CMOS Power Amplifier for Multi-Standard Transmitters

4D-6

10:55 - 11:00

An Embedded Debugging/Performance Monitoring Engine for a Tile-based 3D Graphics SoC Development

4D-7

11:00 - 11:05

Cascaded Time Difference Amplifier using Differential Logic Delay Cell

4D-8

11:05 - 11:10

Built-in Self At-Speed Delay Binning and Calibration Mechanism in Wireless Test Platform

4D-9

11:10 - 11:15

Dynamic Voltage Domain Assignment Technique for Low Power Performance Manageable Cell Based Design

4D-10

11:15 - 11:20

Adaptive Performance Control with Embedded Timing Error Predictive Sensors for Subthreshold Circuits

4D-12

11:20 - 11:25

A 60GHz Direct-Conversion Transmitter in 65nm CMOS Technology

4D-13

11:25 - 11:30

An Electrically Adjustable 3-Terminal Regulator with Post-Fabrication Level-Trimming Function

4D-14

11:30 - 11:35

Fine Resolution Double Edge Clipping with Calibration Technique for Built-In At-Speed Delay Testing

4D-15

11:35 - 11:40

Geyser-1: A MIPS R300 CPU core with fine-grained run-time Power Gating

4D-16

11:40 - 11:45

A WiMAX Turbo Decoder with Tailbiting BIP Architecture

4D-17

11:45 - 11:50

Temporal Circuit Partitioning for a 90nm CMOS Multi-Context FPGA and its Delay Measurement

4D-18

11:50 - 11:55

Design and Chip Implementation of an Instruction Scheduling Free Ubiquitous Processor

4D-19

11:55 - 12:00

MUCCRA-3: A Low Power Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor Array

4D-20

12:00 - 12:05

Rapid Prototyping on a Structured ASIC Fabric

4D-21

12:05 – 12:10

A High Performance Low Complexity Joint Transceiver for Closed-Loop MIMO Applications