NEW DELHI, INDIA: Presenting the winners at VLSI 2009 conference.

1) EDA Contest Winners

2nd Prize (Rs. 15,000)

IDesignSpec
Anupam Bakshi, Agnisys

1st Prize (Rs 20,000)
SAST: An Architecture Driven High-Level Synthesis Tool
C. Karfa, D. Sarkar & C. Mandal, IIT Kharagpur

2) Nripendra Nath Biswas – Best Student paper award

Paper: Improving Scalability and per-core performance in multi-cores through resources sharing and recognition
Authors: Tameesh Suri, SUNY Binghamton,
Aneesh Aggarwal, SUNY Binghamton

3) Honorable mention award

Paper Title: Efficient Analog/RF Layout closure with compaction based legalization
Authors: Subramanian Rajagopalan, Sambuddha Bhattacharya, Shabbir Batterywala (all from) Synopsys

4) Arun Kumar Chowdhury- Best paper Award

Paper title: High speed on-chip event counters for embedded system
Authors: Nilanjan Mukherjee, Mentor Graphics,
Artur Pogiel, Poznan University of Technology
Jenusz Rajski, Mentor Graphics
Jerzy Tyszer, Poznan University of Technology

5) Design Contest winner

3rd Prize (Rs. 10,000)
Novel Polymorphic Reconfigurable Hardware Support for Discrete Wavelet Transform
Amilt Pande & Joseph Zambreno, lowa State Univ, USA

2nd Prize (Rs. 15,000)
High Performance Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Processor for FPGA Platforms
Chester Rebeiro, IIT-Chennai
Debdeep Mukhopadhayay, IIT-Kharagpur

1st Prize (Rs. 20,000)
Design of Multilayer Pyramidically wound Inductor and Fully Integrated 2.4GHz VCO in UMC 0.18um RFCMOS Process
Genemala Haobijam & Roy Paily, IIT Guwahati