To develop innovative projects using Digilent products. These can be:
- Digital design projects featuring Digilent’s FPGA boards, developed in environments such as Xilinx ISE WebPack or ISE Foundation, National Instruments LabView, etc.
- Microcontroller projects featuring Digilent’s AVR or PIC-based embedded control boards, developed in environments such as Atmel AVR Studio, Microchip MPLAB, etc.
| December 1st, 2009 | Registration begins |
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| December 8th, 2009 | Contest launch - 18:00 Room P03, 26 Baritiu St., Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
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| January 20th, 2010 | Registration ends |
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| May 15th, 2010 | Final presentations |
Digilent will be awarding generous prizes. Also, as a courtesy from Digilent, all participants who present their projects in the final contest will get to keep the
Digilent hardware they used for their work, even if they do not receive a prize.
This contest is open to all university students. Projects can be entered by individuals or students working in pairs. To register you will need to submit the registration
document along with a general specification document for your proposed project. To register or receive more information:
hardwarecontest@digilent.ro

Contest poster: (PDF)
Registration Form: (PDF)
Official Rules: (PDF)
Specification Document Template: (DOC)
Report Guidelines: (PDF)
Report Template: (DOC)
Presentation Sample - DigitalSynth: (PowerPoint)
Report Sample - FPGA for Life: (PDF)
Report Sample - DigitalSynth: (PDF)
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See our previous contests!
Suggested FPGA boards:
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BASYS 2
Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA (100K or 250K gates)
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NEXYS 2
Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA (500K or 1200K gates)
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Spartan-3 Starter Board
Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA (200K or 1000K gates)
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Suggested microcontroller boards:
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CEREBOT 32MX4
Microchip® PIC32 32-bit microprocessor
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CEREBOT II
Atmel ATmega64 8-bit microprocessor
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