Development boards and software will be sent out continuously during this period.
Teams that have not submitted the Interrim papers will be asked to return the boards.
31 March
Registration Deadline
17 April
Interim Project Paper Submission due
15 May
Final Project Paper Submission due
21 August
Announcement of finalists
10 September
Finalists display their projects at FPGA World in Kista
Get a DE1 boart to start your desing!
Please register yourself online before 31 March, 2009. All requested information
must.be provided for entries to be eligible.
The contest is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
The participants should be actively enrolled as a student in an accredited
college/university during the contest.
Each participant should be endorsed by a professor from the participating institute.
Teams should consist of one faculty mentor, a minimum of 2 and maximum of
4 undergraduate and graduate students.
Any number of teams can participate from a given institution.
No entry fees.
The platform for Innovate Noridc contest will be Altera DE1 board.
All the teams will develop systems on this platform.
The selected team for Semi-Final will receive the Altera DE1 baord.
MATLAB and Simulink will be provided by MathWorks.
Please visit Altera DE1 and Design Resources for more design information.
Students from technical universities around Nordic region form teams and come
up with a product proposal that will be submitted online.
These product proposals are evaluated for their market value and design
complexity, and then the top 50 teams will be entered in the semifinal on June 8th.
Each of the top 50 semifinalists receives educational material, design software,
and Altera DE1 board which the teams will use to convert their product ideas into prototypes.
These prototypes are then evaluated by Altera, Mathworks, SLS and Terasic. The
top eight finalists will present their business plan and working product prototype at the Innovate finals during FPGA World in Kista.
Preliminary Paper Submission before 17 April, 2009
The report should precisely contain the work done by the team on the project.
This report could include the work distribution among the team members, module implementation details and possibly codes (along with some text explaining the functionality), simulation reports, and also project archive.
The project completion timeline should also be included. The report should
not contain the explanation about the protocol explanations, and if the explanation seems to be necessary, it should be very brief.
The following is a brief of the criteria used to evaluate the projects. This should help participants understand the type of factors that judges take into accounts. The project which has gained the highest scores will win the first prize. The second prize and third prize will be the projects which have the 2nd high and 3rd high scores.
