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TI (Texas Instrument) analog design contest 2011 - June 15

With a view to encourage analog system design at undergraduate level,
Texas Instruments announces the Analog Design Contest for Indian
Universities for the year 2011. Up to 50 universities will be selected
from India for participation in the contest, which will take place in
two phases. In the first phase, teams from within each university/
college compete for a $500 prize (to be split among team members). The
winning team from each university/ college will then be entered in the
second phase, called the Engibous Prize Contest. This contest has a
first-place prize of $10,000 second place $5,000 and third place
$2,500 to be split among members of winning teams.
Any Indian academic institution that offers undergraduate programs in
Engineering may participate. Please note that this contest is
exclusively meant for Indian undergraduate students. If a student is
enrolled in a dual-degree program, then he/she is eligible to
participate if he/she is in the first four years of a UG program.
An institution must propose a minimum of three teams, each team
consisting of two or more undergraduate students and at least one
faculty advisor. It is expected that the teams will independently work
on the project.

For each team, the proposal must include the following information:

*Name of the College and affiliated University
*Names of student team members along with their student id numbers and
department information
*Name(s) of faculty advisor(s) and their department(s)
*E-mail contacts of the students and faculty
*Mobile phone contacts of the students and faculty
*Title of the project
*A description of the proposed project,explaining the intention,
innovation,block diagram, and the TI components which will be used in
the project
*A letter of intent (on college letterhead), signed by the Principal
of the College.

Submit your proposal along with letter of intent on www.tinyurl.com/tii-adc2011
. Submissions will be enabled during the period April 20, 2011 - May
15, 2011.
Hardcopy of letter of intent, along with proposals, must be received
no later than May 15, 2011. (Downloads)
Teams from the college must be disjoint. In other words students
should not be common to multiple teams.
All proposals will be acknowledged. Shortlisted colleges will be
intimated by June 15, 2011 so that they can proceed with the project
implementation. The names of the short-listed colleges will appear on
the Contest Website (www.uniti.in/analog-design-contest)
Semiconductor components required for the project are provided by
Texas Instruments.
The proposal should not be submitted as an entry for any other
contest, before or after.
It is a requirement that the project will make use of either (a) at
least three analog chips from TI or (b) at least two analog chips from
TI and a TI processor.
TI makes over 15,000 analog ICs. Visit www.ti.com for looking at
application notes for the ICs and for ordering free samples. If you
need help in getting free IC samples for any specific TI chip, you
should write to C.P. Ravikumar ( ravi...@ti.com ) specifying the
part number and package type.
The final submission is due on February 1, 2012. The prizes will be
announced in the first quarter of 2012.
Format of the final report will be sent through mail, final report
should be submitted along with covering letter from the institution.
(Downloads)
The decision of the judges will be final. TI reserves the right to
split the prize money in case the judges recommend more than one
winning entry. Similarly, TI reserves the right to not award The
Engibous Prize awards if there are no sufficient entries or if the
judges so recommend.

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