LSI Design Contest in Okinawa will be already held on the 17th in 2014. This contest was originally conducted as part of the class of the Faculty of Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, but recently grew up to large design contest. There are over 100 applicants, and the participant is from not only Japanese university but also foreign one such as Korea, Vietnam and Indonesia. Since the contest become international, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Smart Info-media Systems Technical Group) decides to award a prize to eminent design team. We expect applicants to design more unique to win this prize.

This year's design target is a HW(HardWare)/SW(SoftWare) co-design. Please try to challenge energetically!

Winners are invited conference in Okinawa, and we are planning to give original T-shirt to all participants.

• (2014/4/10)  Uploaded the Contest Result.
• (2013/10/3)  Updated the Design Specification.
• (2013/9/20)  Updated this HP.

• Design Specification
• Who can join :  the team of 1-3 University or college students.
• Please buy FPGA board at the following WEB site.
  (Other FPGA boards also are available if it is mounted CPU.)
  DIGILENT
  → http://www.digilentinc.com/
  XILINX(Professors only)
  → http://www.xilinx.com/university/professors/index.htm
• The final report deadline ：Friday, 31th Jan, 2014
• Report
• In this home page, we have used Synphony Model Compiler as a development tool;howver, applicants can freely use any type of architecutre as well as any EDA tools.
• Any Q&A: support@LSI-contest.com

• We try to evaluate not only the speed and the area, but also your idea ,originality, uniqueness. But be sure to remember that we are not perfect, please make a good presentation to appeal us.
• We definitely take your school grade into account.
• We like fun ideas. Please do something different from others.

• Place :  50th Anniversary Memorial Hall Department of Computer Science, University of the Ryukyus
• Address :  Chihaya1,Nishihara City,Okinawa 903-0213,Japan
• Campus Map 30
• Date   :   Friday, 14th March, 2014,14:00〜17:00

• Contest General Chair
      Prof. Hiroshi Ochi
      Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
      E-mail：ochi@cse.kyutech.ac.jp Tel: +81-0948-29-7692
• Contest Judge Member Chair
      Prof. Kazuhisa Wada
      University of the Ryukyus, Japan
• Executive Committee: LSI Design Contest Committee
• Partner Organization: University of the Ryukyus, Kyushu Institute of Technology,
          Frontier Region of Multimedia Okinawa Initiative,
          IEICE Smart Info-media Systems Technical Group
          LLP Embedded Technology Promotion Project
• Sponsor: Tokyo Electron Device LTD., Renesas Electronics Corp., ,
          Synopsys,  Sangyo Times, Inc.,  Radrix co.Ltd., 
• Supporting Organization: Okinawa National College of Technology, CQ Publishing Co.,Ltd.