1st Place (Best Overall)
“A 50MS/s (35mW) to 1kS/s (15 µW) Power Scaleable 10b Pipelined ADC with Minimal Bias Current Variation”
Imran Ahmed, David Johns | Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

2nd Place – “A 1.3 TOPS H.264/AVC Single-Chip Encoder for HDTV Applications”
Tung-Chien Chen, Yu-Wen Huang, Chen-Han Tsai, Ching-Yeh Chen, To-Wei Chen, Liang-Gee Chen | National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

3rd Place – “A Side-Channel Leakage Free Coprocessor IC in 0.18µm CMOS for Embedded AES-based Cryptographic and Biometric Processing”
Kris Tiri, David Hwang, Alireza Hodjat, Bo-Cheng Lai, Shenglin Yang, Patrick Schaumont, Ingrid Verbauwhede | Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

1st Place – “Design and Implementation of a Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for Cellular Systems”
Petrus J. Venter, Saurabh Sinha | Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

2nd Place – “A 1-V IEEE 802.11a/b/g-Compliant Receiver IF-to-Baseband Chip in 0.35µm CMOS for Low-Cost Wireless SiP”
Pui-In Mak, Rui P. Martins | Univ. of Macau, Macao SAR, China
Seng-Pan U | Chipidea Microelectronics (Macau) Ltd., Macao SAR, China

3rd Place – “Collision Detection System using an FPGA Implemented on the FPX Platform”
Hasan N. Atay, Burchan Bayazit, John W. Lockwood | Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO

42nd Student Design Contest Winners.