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Texas Instruments is offering U.S. $100,000 to electrical engineering students as a grand prize in its world-wide "TI DSP Solutions Challenge."
Open to student teams around the world, the contest will award prizes for design projects that develop new or innovative uses for the Texas Instrument digital signal processor line of integrated circuits and peripheral products.
"As the leading supplier of digital signal processing products and solutions, we're looking to design engineers of the future for the applications of tomorrow," said Michael Hames, vice president, TI Semiconductor Group and worldwide DSP manager.
The best DSP-based design submitted will win a grand prize totaling U.S. $100,000 that will be divided among members of the winning team, said Torrence Robinson, TI's SC university program manager and contest coordinator. The team's sponsoring professor will receive a special award of U.S. $15,000. Three semifinalist teams each will win a total prize of U.S. $10,000 cash. Other prizes will be awarded at a local level for runners-up teams.
Teams may consist of a maximum of five, full-time graduate or undergraduate students. "We anticipate more than 200 entries will be received from around the world," said Robinson.
"We've assembled a distinguished panel of experts in the industry who will judge each entry based on applicability to industry needs, product content and overall design creativity of the solution," said Robinson.
The judges will look for designs that address complete digital signal processing solutions. A system might include components such as a digital signal processor, analog input/output devices, memory, application-specific system peripherals and glue logic and software to pull the entire system design together.
The deadline to submit a final project, which includes a detailed description diagram of the hardware or software design, is December 31, 1995. Judging will be completed and the grand prize will be awarded in April 1996.
For more information, students should contact their university electrical engineering professor or department head, or contact Texas Instruments at 1-800-477-8924, ext. 3992 or via the Internet at univ@msg.ti.com.
March 1995, vol. 12, no.2