1st Place (Best Overall)
“A 10.6mW/0.8pJ Power-Scalable 1 GS/s 4b ADC in 0.18um CMOS with 5.8GHz ERBW”
Pierluigi Nuzzo, Fernando De Bernardinis, Pierangelo Terreni - Univ. di Pisa, Pisa, Italy Bert Gyselinckx, Liesbet Van der Perre, Geert Van der Plas | IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

2nd Place (tie) – “Increasing the Time Dynamic Range of Pulse Measurement Techniques in Digital CMOS”
Mona Safi-Harb, Gordon W. Roberts | McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

2nd Place (tie) – “A DSP Enabled Microsystem for Cochlear Implants with Hybrid LC Clocking”
Eric D. Marsman, Robert M. Senger | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Richard B. Brown | Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

3rd Place – “A 160K Gates/4.5KB SRAM H.264 Video Decoder for HDTV Applications”
Chien-Chang Lin, Jia-Wei Chen, Hsiu-Cheng Chang, Chao-Ching Wang, Yi-Huan Ou-Yang, Ming-Chih Tsai, Yao-Chang Yang, Jiun-In Guo, Jinn-Shyan Wang | National Chung Cheng Univ., Min-Hsiung Taiwan

1st Place – “Demonstration of Uncoordinated Multiple Access in Optical Communications”
Herwin Chan, Andres I. Vila Cadaso, Juthika Basak, Miguel Griot, Wen-Yen Weng, Richard Wesel, B. Jalali, Eli Yablonovitch | Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
Ingrid Verbauwhede | Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA and K.U. Katholieke Univ., Leuven Belgium

2nd Place – “Illumimote: A High Performance Light Sensor Module for Wireless Sensor Networks”
Heemin Park, Jonathan Friedman, Mani B. Srivastava, Pablo Gutierrez, Vidyut Samanta, Jeff Burke | Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

3rd Place – “An Ultra Low Power Wireless Micro-Sensor Node”
Denis Daly, Daniel Finchelstein, Nathan Ickes, Naveen Verma, Anantha Chandrakasan | Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

Honorable Mention – “Phase Delay Based Collision Avoidance RADAR for Smart Automobiles”
Babu L. Saincha | Indian Institute of Information Tech., Allahabad, India

1st Place – “ASIC Implementation of LDPC Decoder Accelerating Message-Passing Schedule”
Kazunori Shimizu, Tatsuyuki Ishikawa, Nozomu Togawa, Takeshi Ikenaga, Satoshi Goto | Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan