MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS NEWS

FILENUMBER: 1302 BEGIN_KEYWORDS SRC IC DESIGN CONTEST END_KEYWORDS DATE: August 2007 TITLE: SRC IC DESIGN CONTEST
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SRC/SIA are pleased to  announce  the  2007-2008  SRC/SIA  Design
Challenge  and  would like to invite universities to form contest
teams and enter this exciting contest.

Open to all  North  American  Universities,  the  contest  offers
$68,000  in  cash  prizes as well as the opportunity for teams to
fabricate your  designs  in  Jazz  Semiconductor's  180  nm  SiGe
technology.

The theme of this contest is  "Performance  at  the  Limits"  and
seeks innovative designs of high performance.

The  contest  sponsors  include  Advanced  Micro  Devices,  Inc.,
Cadence   Design   Systems,  Freescale  Semiconductor,  Inc,  IBM
Corporation,  Intel  Corporation,  Intersil   Corporation,   Jazz
Semiconductor,  LSI  Corporation,  Mentor  Graphics  Corporation,
National   Semiconductor   Corporation,    NVIDIA    Corporation,
Semiconductor   Industry   Association,   Semiconductor  Research
Corporation, and Texas Instruments Incorporated.

The deadline for initial proposal submission is September 4, 2007
at 3PM Eastern.

For additional information, access: IC Contest.

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