The 3rd International Electronics Design Contest for Students

IEDCS.handasarabia.org

The 3rd International Electronics Design Contest for Students
IEDCS'06
I. OBJECTIVES
· Innovation Promotion
· Technical Knowledge Sharing
· Talents Exploration
· Academia and Industry Bridging
II. JOINING CRITERIA
· Innovative and applicable projects
· Designed by full-time undergraduate students
· Academic Year, Fall 2005/Spring 2006
· International submissions are invited
III. AWARDS
First Three ranked designs awards:
· Paper at IEEE ICM'06 Proceedings
· Presentation at IEEE ICM'06
· Waiving ICM'06 registration fees
· "OpenTech" EDA tools and designs per winning
project
· Have a chance to host their projects under Handasa Arabia as open
source projects
IV. DESIGNS' SCOPE
Conceptual and Operational designs for:
· Digital/Analogue Integrated Circuits
· FPGA based designs, SOC
· Computer Architectures/ Processors
· Reconfigurable Computing Systems
· Embedded Systems, MEMS/Optics/Bio-Chips
· Control Systems, Telecommunications Systems.
· DSP Applications, Systems Software Modelling.
· Measurements and Instrumentation Systems.
· Design Methodologies/Verification Techniques.

V. DESIGN SUBMISSION
· Summary is in IEEE journal two-column format
· Summary doesn't exceed four pages
· Submit summary in PDF format by email
· Submission language is English
· Submission dead line is August 15, 2006
· Send design to:
VI. JUDGING
International judging panel from academia, industry plus the IEEE
ICM'06 committee.
Judging Criteria
· Originality
· Soundness of Engineering
· Documentation Quality and Clarity
· Performance
· Judging decision by: September 1 , 2006

In Cooperation with the 18th IEEE International Conference on
Microelectronics, ICM 2006,
December 2006, Saudi Arabia

Aljazeera.net News Story about IEDCS'05
May, 9 2005
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4...4B693EC1B6.htm
EEtimes & EEdesign News Story about IEDCS'04
August, 04 2004
http://www.eedesign.com/article/prin...cleID=26805904
VII. ORGANIZERS
Handasa Arabia Organization
www.handasarabia.org
The University of Waterloo
www.uwaterloo.ca
IEEE ICM'06 Conference
http://icm2006.kfupm.edu.sa/

jamil.khatib@googlemail.com