Eight Teams Display Award-Winning Work at the 2011 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Poster Session [People]

Cosponsored by the Design Automation Conference (DAC) and ISSCC, the 48-year-old DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest recognizes excellence in the design of electronic systems by young graduate and undergraduate students at universities and colleges around the world with the aim of bringing a broad range of students into contact with the ISSCC community. According to Bryan Ackland, SSCS liaison to EDA, ISSCC has played a major role in publicizing the contest in recent years by soliciting entries, recruiting judges, and recognizing winners, thanks to the advocacy of ISSCC General Chair Anantha Chandrakasan and the enthusiastic leadership of Bill Bowhill (2004??2009) and Kerry Bernsteim. The IEEE SSCS has been an active sponsor for the past seven years. Team spokesmen talked to the magazine about their work in interviews via e-mail and at the ISSCC poster session reception. Each of the eight winning entries are breifly summarized.