1st Place (Best Overall)
“A Computationally Efficient ASIC Implementation for the Decoding of Space-Time Block Codes”
Enver Cavus, Babak Daneshrad | Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

2nd Place
“A Low-Energy Chip-Set for Wireless Intercom (Session 52.2)”
Josie Ammer, Michael Sheets, Tufan C. Karalar, Mika Kuulusa, Jan Rabaey | Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

3rd Place
“Energy-Aware Design of a Real-Valued FFT”
Alice Wang, Anantha Chandrakasan | Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

1st Place
“A 16-Bit Mixed-Signal Microsystem with Integrated CMOS-MEMS Clock Reference (Session 31.1)”
Robert M. Senger, Matthew Guthaus, Eric D. Marsman, Michael S. McCorquodale, Fadi H. Gebara, Keith L. Kraver, Richard B. Brown | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2nd Place
“An Integrated Thermally-Based Microflow Sensor”
Masoud Agah, Yang Li, Robert M. Senger, Kensall D. Wise | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

“Towards A Button-Sized 1024-Site Wireless Cortical Microstimulating Array (Operational)”
Maysam Ghovanloo, Khalil Najafi | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

“Design Flow for HW/SW Acceleration Transparency in the ThumbPod Secure Embedded System (Conceptual) (Session 5.1)”
David Hwang, Patrick Schaumont, Yi Fan, Alireza Hodjat, Bo Cheng Lai, Kazuo Sakiyama, Shenglin Yang, Ingrid Verbauwhede | Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

“Analog Turbo Decoder Implemented in SiGe BiCMOS Technolgy”
Wei Huang, Vinay Igure, Garrett Rose, Yan Zhang, Mircea Stan | Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

“Design of a High Performance Security Coprocessor”
Yunqing Chen, Jun Cheng, Tsung Hsing Hu, Jerry Kao | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI