ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan students swept the top honors in the 1999 Student VLSI Design Contest, a competition for designing computer systems with Very Large Scale Integration. Now in its 19th year, the VLSI contest promotes excellence in education for integrated circuit designers at universities. It provides competition between students participating in classes and research who design and fabricate integrated circuits at the novice and experienced levels.
Four schools participated in this year’s VLSI competition: Iowa State University, Seattle University, U-M, and University of Virginia. Awards were presented in Ann Arbor at the U-M on U-M students Yan Zhang, Yifei Zhang, and Hongtao Jiang took first place in the experienced class with their project, “Digital Adaptive Predistortion Linearizer.” First place in the novice class went to U-M students Michael McCorquodale, Hector Torres, Trolan Ma, and Youngjoon Kim for their project “Programmable Commercial Band Stereo FM Transmitter.”
“We learned to work as a team and sense a flavor of what it is like working with industry-standard CAD tools in the real world,” said Trolan Ma.
Prizes went to (see http://www.eecs.umich.edu/VLSI for complete list with project titles):
Experienced Class