PSoC Innovator Design Challenge (IDC) India 2008 - Cypress

Cypress has announced the PSoC (Programmable System on Chip) design
competition for engineering students in India.  The PSoC Innovator Design
Challenge (IDC) India 2008 is designed to award innovative uses of Cypress
PSoC devices.
The design must use Cypress PSoC devices in an innovative manner and there must
be a working prototype in order to win the contest.

Two tracks to choose:

• Wired, using
  CY33210-PSOCEVAL1-U evaluation kit
• Wireless, using
  CY3209-EXPRESSEVK evaluation kit 

Cypress offer a significant discount for those dev kits, for the contest
entrants.

About PSoC
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for
embedded control design. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital
circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced
design revision capability and component count savings. They include up to 32
Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8×8 multiplier with 32-bit
accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C
communications.
The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof their products by
enabling firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and in
the field. The unique PSoC flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for
late-breaking feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically
reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly,
utilizing fewer components to perform a given task.
A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions,
saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving
system quality. Customers can save as much as $10 in system costs. Learn more
about PSoC products at www.cypress.com/psoc and receive free online training at
www.cypress.com/psoctraining.

Prizes:

• 1st place prize: Rs. 100,000
• 2nd place prize: Rs. 50,000
• 3rd place prize: Rs. 25,000
• 10 runners up prize: Rs. 5,000 each

Entries will be judged by a panel of experts from Cypress and SLS based on a
number of factors, including:

• A working prototype of the design
• The amount of innovation exhibited by the design
• The level of integration of Cypress products within the design
• The suitability for commercial application of the design
• The amount of design time saved by using the Cypress solution compared to
  alternative solutions
• Any additional positive impact achieved by using the Cypress solution
  compared to alternative solutions

Important Dates:

• Aug 15, 2008 to Oct 15, 2008
  Submit your teams proposal for entry into the contest
• Oct 16, 2008 to Nov 14, 2008
  Contest co-ordinators evaluate proposals and select 50 entries
• Nov 15, 2008
  50 teams will be selected and notified via Email
• Feb 28, 2009
  Teams submit a detailed project progress report to psocidc[at]slscorp.com
• Mar 16, 2009
  Teams submit their final projects
• Mar 23, 2009
  Finalists notified via Email
• Mar 31, 2009
  Finalists display the projects at a particular venue and winners are declared on
  the same day

The participating teams should submit their abstracts for the contest on or
before October15, 2008. All the abstracts will be screened and the list of top
abstracts and teams will be posted in the PSoC Innovator Design Challenge India
web site by November 15, 2008. Only the selected teams will be allowed to submit
their projects to qualify for the final.

Resources:

• Official web-site of PSoC Innovator Design Challenge India 2008: http://www.psocidcindia.com/
• Official Rules: http://64.191.19.198/doc/PSOC_IDC08_Rules.pdf  [32KB]