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Innovate Italy Design Contest is a multi-discipline engineering design contest open to all PhD, graduate and undergraduate engineering students as well as all members of the research academic community in Italy. The goal of the annual contest is to help students to cultivate their design interests of embedded processor, to improve their design technique, and to make their creativity and innovation into best practice. Altera, as the programmable logic leader, creates an environment of learning through innovation and positive competition by holding an annual multi-discipline engineering design contest. Innovate Italy Design Contest 2012 welcome the most ambitious, creative, smart PhD, and undergraduate engineering students in Italy (including the researcher community) to work together and turn all of your imagination into reality! |
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October 1st - November 15, 2012 |
Submit your teams proposal for entry into the contest. |
November 15–November 30, 2012 |
Contest coordinators evaluate proposals and select 40 entries. |
- 40 teams will be selected and notified via e-mail
- Information packages, Quartus II Web Edition software, and development boards will be sent to the selected teams |
November 30, 2012 |
Teams start work on their designs. |
April 15, 2013 |
Teams submit their final projects. |
May 15, 2013 |
Finalists notified via Email. |
November 30 – April 15, 2013 |
Teams work on their designs. |
Sept. 13, 2013 |
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Please submit all requested information before October 1 to October 31, 2012. |
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The contest is open to : PhD, graduate and undergraduate students as well as all |
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the members of Accademic Research community ). |
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The participants should be actively enrolled in an accredited college/university in Italy |
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during the contest. |
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Each participant should be endorsed by a professor from the participating institute. |
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Teams should consist of up to 5 members, and a faculty mentor. |
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Any number of teams can participate from a given institution. |
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No entry fees. |
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The platform for Innovate Italy contest will be Altera DE1 board.
All the teams will develop systems on this platform.
The selected team will receive one Altera DE1 board.
Please visit Altera DE1 and Design Resources for more design information. |
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Submissions should consist of brief introduction, full report, and the real project. |
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PART I - Design Introduction |
Please give some general information of your design such as the purpose of the design, application scope, and target users. Please also include a detailed description of why you used NIOS soft core processor to do the design. |
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PART II - Function Description |
Please give detailed information to show the functionality of your design and how to implement it. |
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PART III - Performance Parameters |
Please enumerate some performance parameters that the design needs to reach. If possible, please compare the actual performance realized in your design with the design parameter, and then appraise the function of NIOS processor in the design. |
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PART IV - Design Architecture |
Please give the system design scheme of your design or both hardware design block diagram and software flow chart. |
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PART V - Design Methodology |
Please give the detailed description of the implementation method and steps of the design, especially how the design is implemented using the concept of SOPC. |
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PART VI - Design Features |
Please give us all the outstanding features of your design and what aspects of NIOS helped you to implement them. |
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PART VII - Conclusion |
Please give us a brief conclusion of you design. Also please share with others about the advantages of your design and some valuable aspects of it for further elaboration in the future. |
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