1st Place $4,000
(session 41.1) “Unlocking the Design Secrets of a 2.29 Gb/s Rijndael Processor”
Patrick R. Schaumont, Ingrid M. Verbauwhede, Henry Kuo | University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2nd Place $2,500
“System Design of iBadge for Smart Kindergarten”
Ivo Locher, Sung I. Park, Andreas Savvides, Mani Srivastava | Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

3rd Place (tie) $1,500
“A Low Noise Switched-Capacitor Interface Electronics for Sub-micro Gravity Resolution Micromachined Accelerometers”
Haluk Kulah | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

3rd Place (tie) $1,500
“Low-Jitter Power-Aware Non-PLL Clock Generator for GHz Microprocessors”
Chulwoo Kim, Inchul Hwang | Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Sung Mo Kang | Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA

1st Place $4,000, SDC Best Paper $1000
“A Microsystem for Near-Patient Accelerated Clotting Time Blood Tests”
Steven M. Martin, Roy H. Olsson, Richard B. Brown | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2nd Place $2,500
“Design of a Crossbar Switch Chip for Use in a Demonstration System of an Optoelectronic Multi-Chip Module”
Jason D. Bakos, Donald M. Chiarulli | Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

3rd Place $1,500
“Highly Parallel DNA Sequence Matching and Alignment Processor”
A. T. Patzer | Duke Univ., Durham, NC

“A Low-Power Line Driver Using Resonant Charging With Reduced High-Order Frequency Components”
Clemens Schlachta, Burkart Voss, Manfred Glesner | Darmstadt Univ., Darmstadt, Germany

(session 29.4) “Systematic Design of a 200 Ms/s 8-bit Interpolating/Averaging A/D Converter”
Jan Vandenbussche | Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium

“Power Minimization for Digital Optical Interconnects”
Xiaoqing Wang, Fouad Kiamilev, Jeremy Ekman | Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE