Participations: |
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75 contest participants (35% growth vs 2008 edition) |
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27 different groups subscribed the Innovation contest |
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Up to 14 different Italian Universities including the most famous one |
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The examination of the submitted papers led to the selection of 10 finalists. Among the 10 finalists we selected the top three.
The ranking among them was pretty difficult since all of them were very valuable
The evaluation was based on the following criteria: |
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Design Concept |
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1.Complexity
2.Functionality |
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Design Implementation |
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Documentation |
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The winner of 2009 InnovateItaly Design Contest is.... |
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“Design of a "Walkie-Talkie over IP” |
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University: Politecnico of Torino |
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Team Members: Sandro Cuciz |
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Advisor: Prof. Frabrizio Vacca |
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Description: |
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Fully integrated IP Walkie Talkie system implemented on NIOS with open source
Linux system
Voice over IP implementation
Implementation of Multicast concept
Could easily evolve with wireless support emulating a full stand-alone Walkie Talkie
over WI-Fi networks
Live Demo demonstrated at SOPC World Seminar |
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1° prize: Award event for InnovateItaly 2009 Design Contest during the Altera SOPC World seminar in Milan, 6th November 2009
In the picture from left to right: Achille Montanaro (Altera Account Manager and Responsible for Altera University Program in Italy), Mark Nelson (Altera VP of Sales in Europe),
Prof. Fabrizio Vacca (Professor Advisor), Brunella Margaria (Altera Italy ISR and InnovateItaly coordinator), Student Sandro Cuciz Winner of 2009 Edition |
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The demo of 4 DE2 boards running the IP Walkie Talkie application connected to an Ethernet switch.
Each board with its own speaker and mike works like a Walkie Talki with Puth To Talk button. Voice samples are captured and send over an IP network with multicast protocol.
The whole application has been embedded inside the Cyclone FPGA with a NIOS running a full Linux system. |
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Second Place:
“FPGA-Based High Resolution Time to Digital Converter”
University: Politecnico of Bari
Team Members: Mariafrancesca de Ruvo, Gianluigi de Ruvo
Advisor: Prof. Francesco Marino
Description:
TDC can be applied into several fields ie: in scientific research application it used for estimating the life time of sub-atomic particle in high energy experiments. In military application it can be used for laser ranging systems or for measurements of distances, flows, density, thikness, etc. In this implementation the student was able to |
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| 2° Prize: In the picture from left to right: Achille Montanaro (Altera Account Manager and Responsible for Altera University Program in Italy), Ing. Mariafrancesca de Ruvo (student winner) and Prof. Francesco Marino (Professor Advisor, Politecnico di Bari). |
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Third Place:
“An application specific processor for deinterlacing race car images”
University of Pavia
Team Member: Gianni Danese, Mauri Giachero, Nelson Nazzicari, Alessandra Majani
Advisor: Prof. Francesco Leporati
Description:
The project is part of a collaboration between University of Pavia and Marelli Motorsport that aims to create a vision system able to monitor and elaborate videos from cameras mounted directly on racecars |
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3° Prize: Award event for InnovateItaly 2009 Design Contest during the Altera SOPC World seminar in Milan, 6th November 2009
In the picture from left to right: Achille Montanaro (Altera Account Manager and Responsible for Altera University Program in Italy), Maurizio Paolini (Altera TS-FAE and member of the evaluation team for the contest), Mark Nelson (Altera VP of Sales in Europe), Prof. Francesco Leporati (Professor Advisor), Brunella Margaria (Altera Italy ISR and InnovateItaly coordinator), Prof. Gianni Danese, Student Nelson Nazzicari, Student Alessandra Majani |
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| Final Ranking among the 10 finalists |
| Ranking |
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Project Name |
Points |
| First Place |
IT004 |
Design of a "Walkie-Talkie" over IP |
17 |
| Second Place |
IT006 |
FPGA-Based High Resolution Time to Digital Converter |
16 |
| Third Place |
IT026 |
An application specific processor for deinterlacing race car images |
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IT012 |
A wireless image acquisition system for the mobile reader device for blind people |
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IT013 |
FPGA project for an inspection mobile robot |
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IT018 |
HElabor |
14 |
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IT027 |
Implementing a fault tolerant NIOS II processor using Hybrid hardware redundancy |
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IT007 |
Network analyzer for STM |
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IT014 |
XDAC |
12 |
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IT003 |
Powerline communications for domotics |
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