Invite for Global Design Contest
The Design & Verification Conference & Exhibition is the premier conference on the application of languages, tools, methodologies and standards for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits. The focus of this highly technical conference is on the practical aspects of these technologies and their use in leading-edge projects to encourage attendees to adopt similar techniques to improve their own design and verification flows.
This invite for the design contest, titled C-DAC’s VEGA microprocessor (RISC-V) based Design & Verification Challenge presents some unique opportunities for academic students:
1. Achieve deeper understanding of RISC-V architecture, VEGA Microprocessor and applications.
2. Explore the design and verification space for better performance.
3. Implement your very own processor core on industry standard FPGA!
4. Opportunities to interact with experts from industry and academia.
5. To win cash prizes and internship at leading-edge VLSI companies
VEGA series of high-performance processors are developed by C-DAC as part of the DIR-V program and is based on the open-source RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture with Multilevel Caches, Memory Management Unit and Coherent Interconnect.
The design contest is to be conducted virtually:
- Problem statement whose solution will be based on RTL Design, Functional verification, and implementation on an FPGA.
- Each team with maximum of 3 members should register and will be given four months with specific milestones for completion in two stages.
- The milestones/ evaluation metrics will be published along with the problem statement.
- There will be mentoring sessions at different milestones during the contest duration.
REGISTRATION PROCESS
This design contest is open only for students who are currently enrolled in educational institutions. Each participant should upload a Bonafide certificate of their student status from the University/College.
Please do your registration via the EasyChair – Register Here by April 21, 2024. This is a team-based Design Contest with each team comprising of 3 members.
Please refer to appendix section for registration guidelines.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
March 21, 2024: Registrations for Design Contest open – EasyChair – Register Here
April 21, 2024: Last Date for Registration
April 28, 2024: Problem Statement announcement
April 28 – June 02, 2024: Stage 1 – work on proposal. Additional mentoring sessions – based on Contest Milestones
June 02, 2024: Final date for Stage 1 (proposal) submission
June 18, 2024: Announce Stage 1 result
June 18 – Aug 15, 2024: Selected teams to work on Stage 2, additional mentoring sessions as required
Aug 15, 2024: Final date for Stage 2 Results to be submitted in Easy Chair
Sept 18, 2024: Results to be announced at Conference.
CASH AWARDS
- INR 60,000 for the Winning team,
- INR 42,000 for First Runner up
- INR 30,000 for the Second Runner up!
The winners will be selected by the judges from DVCon India based on the metrics decided by the DVCon India 2024 Design Contest team.
The top three winners will be given free registration to DVCon India 2024.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
- September 18, 2024 — Tutorials and Panels
- September 19, 2024 — Tutorials, Technical papers & Poster Session, Award Winners
Register Here for Design Contest:
Design Contest Chair
Seru Srinivas
Marvell
ssrinivas@marvell.com
Academia Collaboration Chair
Dr. Vivek Chaturvedi
IIT Palakkad
vivek@iitpkd.ac.in
Academia Collaboration Co-Chair
Dr. Subrahmanyam Mula
IIT Palakkad
svmula@iitpkd.ac.in
Academia Collaboration Co-Chair
Prof. Sivanantham S
VIT Vellore
ssivanantham@vit.ac.in
C-DAC Liaison
Krishnakumar Rao S
C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram
raokk@cdac.in
SriLanka Liaison Chair
Upul Ekanayaka
ACCELR
upul.ekanayaka@accelr.site
APPENDIX
Guidelines for DVCon India 2024 – Design Contest Registration
Step 1: Select the DVCon India 2024 – Design Contest Track
Step 2: Enter the Team Member Details (3 Team Member details needed)
Step 3: Enter your Team name in the Title Field
Step 4: Enter the Team Member Names and their phone numbers as indicated below.
Step 5: Upload the Bonafide Certificate from your college.
COUNTDOWN
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