DESIGN COMPETITION
Following last year's success, we will again be hosting an FPGA design competition at FPT'09. The theme of this year's competition is general purpose computing on FPGAs.
Specifically, the goal of this year's competition is to develop a general purpose Sudoku solver on FPGAs. To learn more about the game of Sudoku, see the Background page. For details about the competition requirements, see the Details page.
Important Dates
| Design Entry Submission extended: | 9 Oct 2009 16 Oct 2009 |
| Design Poster Paper Submission: | 16 Oct 2009 23 Oct 2009 |
| (Note the change from original deadline) |
| Design Poster Paper Acceptance Notification: | 21 Oct 2009 |
| Camera-Ready Design Poster Paper | 31 Oct 2009 |
| Shortlisted Winning Teams Notification: | 9 Nov 2009 |
| Winner Announcement: | During Conference |
Latest Updates
- Sep 23, 2009 Design competition submission site opened.
- Sep 23, 2009 Software for benchmarking the performance of your FPGA design can be downloaded here.
- Sep 8, 2009 Prize for design competition announced: An Altium NanoBoard 3000.
- Sep 8, 2009 Updated deadlines.
- Sep 8, 2009 Clarified submission procedures.
- Sep 8, 2009 List of allowed board updated
- June 11, 2009 Benchmark updated.
- June 11, 2009 List of allowed board updated
- Apr 24, 2009 Clarification added to the competition rule for cases when a design is not able to return result within the given time.
- Apr 24, 2009 List of allowed board updated
- Apr 24, 2009 Added a note on maximum team size
