BANGALORE, INDIA: Freescale Semiconductor announced the 10 finalists invited to compete in the company’s first green engineering design contest. The Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Design Challenge India finalists will strive to develop the next generation of sustainable embedded systems based on Freescale’s energy-efficient technologies and easy-to-design-with development tools.

Freescale selected ten finalists from a field of more than 450 participants made up of embedded systems developers and engineering students representing India. Each submission was judged on creativity, design efficiency, technical complexity, the number of Freescale devices used, and the overall application innovation to improve the environment. 

Each of the ten finalists will receive a $1,000 (USD) award, a professional CodeWarrior development platform and a video camera to capture their design building experience. Freescale invites these finalists to develop prototypes of their designs to be submitted on October 3, 2008 to an expert panel for final judging. On October 20, 2008 five of the 10 finalists will be selected and invited to FTF India, November 13-14. Those registered in the FTF Design Challenge India and FTF India will be invited to vote on a first-, second- and third-place winner which will be announced at FTF India.

Other International FTF Design Challenges have opened over the past several months. Freescale will award more finalists’ prizes and a first-place winner in each regional design challenge. In addition, to the five first-place winners receiving $10,000, they will be invited to move on to the Grand FTF Design Challenge where they can vie for an additional $50,000 in prizes and a ticket to the FTF 2009 of his or her choice.