Cadence Design Contest

Cadence challenges engineering students in electronics-design-automation contest

Contest To Foster Inventiveness Among Engineering Design Students In The Country.

BANGALORE — Dec. 13, 2005 — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the launch of an Electronic-Design-Automation (EDA) contest aimed at fostering the spirit of inventiveness and realization of ideas among engineering students in India and the SAARC region. Undergraduate and graduate students (B. Tech and M. Tech) from institutions that use predominantly Cadence EDA technologies are invited to participate.

So if you are a designer looking to express yourself by competing with other great artists, the place you are looking for exists and its name is Cadence Design Contest !!!

• Certificate of Acknowledgement from Cadence
• Cash award of Rs.50,000 per student subject to maximum of Rs.1.5 lacs and Rs.50,000 for the Project Guide
• Chance to present at CDNLive!
• Fellowship for VLSI conference

• Project should be completed using predominantly Cadence technologies
• Each project team should have between 2-5 students and may have a Faculty as Project Guide
• Panel consisting of eminent experts from Academia, Industry and Cadence will adjudge the best Analog Mixed Signal/ Digital design project based on following key parameters
  - Inventiveness
  - Complexity and feasibility of the project
  - Methodology adopted
  - Breadth of design aspects covered
  - Efficient tool usage
  - Project presentation & demonstration
  
• Timelines mentioned are sacrosanct and will not be revised
• Decision of Expert Panel will be final