Contest Description

The Design Contest is an international contest open to students studying in a technical school, college, university, or other educational institution, subject to the eligibility criteria described in this document.

The Design Contest is organized by the AMD University Program, in partnership with Europractice, and CNFM (the French Government coordination agency for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology).

The Open Hardware Design Contest is an online contest with prizes awarded for the best entries as determined by the organizers.

Important Dates

Important Design Contest dates will be announced on the contest’s website. Please check the website regularly as dates may be subject to change.

Registration

Registration is via the Design Contest website www.openhw.eu

Entry Levels

The Adaptive Computing category is open to projects that use AMD FPGA, Zynq SOC and Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC, and Versal Adaptive SOCs.

There are two levels in each category:

• PhD: Post-Graduate student/PhD candidate
• Student: Undergraduate student

Teams

Individuals, or teams of up to FIVE people can enter.

For the Student level, all participants must be undergraduate students. If one or more participants are PhD students, the team must enter at the PhD level.

Supervisors

Participants must be supervised by a senior member of staff (Advisor) from the same institute. Multiple entries from the same institute are allowed, and Advisors can supervise more than one team.

Eligibility Criteria

The contest is open to students (Bachelor, Master, or PhD) enrolled at accredited academic institutes in eligible countries.

Hardware Requirements

Projects must use at least one of the following hardware:

• Any AMD (Xilinx) Series 7 FPGA device or later
• Zynq SOC, Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC, Zynq RFSoC
• Versal Adaptive SOC

Awards

Prizes will be awarded for the best project(s) in each category, subject to sufficient entries. Additional prizes may be awarded at the discretion of the organizers.

Judging Criteria

Projects will be judged based on the following categories:

• Technical Complexity
• Implementation
• Marketability/Innovation
• Documentation and Written Report
• Reusability

Intellectual Property

The project remains the intellectual property of the participant. However, organizers reserve the right to publish project materials for competition purposes.

Changes

The rules are subject to change. For clarifications, please contact aup@amd.com