[ Innovate Canada ]-Altera Design Contest 2008 ------Design Resources

	Registration Deadline: 14 April

14 April	Registration Deadline
15 May	Preliminary Paper Submission Deadline
8 June	Announcement of 50 teams for Semi-Final
8 June ~ 19 June	Information packages, MATLAB and Simulink software, 　and development boards will be sent to the selected teams.
7 August	Final Project Paper Submission Deadline
14 August	Announcement of 8 finalists
28 August	Submission of Final Projects
4 September	Announcement of Finalists
11 September	Finalists display their projects.

	Please register yourself online before April 1, 2008. All requested information
	must be provided for entries to be eligible.
	The contest is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
	The participants should be actively enrolled as a student in an accredited
	college/university during the contest.
	Each participant should be endorsed by a professor from the participating institute.
	Teams should consist of one faculty mentor, a minimum of 2 and maximum of
	4 undergraduate and graduate students.
	Any number of teams can participate from a given institution.
	No entry fees.

	The platform for Innovate Noridc contest will be Altera DE1 board.
	All the teams will develop systems on this platform.
	The selected team for Semi-Final will receive the Altera DE1 baord.
	MATLAB and Simulink will be provided by MathWorks.
Please visit Altera DE1 and Design Resources for more design information.

	Students from technical universities in Canada form teams and
	come up with a product proposal that will be submitted online.
	These product proposals are evaluated for their market value and design
	complexity, and then the top 50 teams will be entered in the semifinal on June 8th.
	Each of the top 50 semifinalists receives educational material, design
	software, and Altera DE1 board which the teams will use to convert their product ideas into prototypes.
	These prototypes are then evaluated by Altera, Mathworks and Terasic.
	The top eight finalists will present their business plan and working product prototype at the Innovate finals.

Preliminary Paper Submission before May 5, 2008

	The report should precisely contain the work done by the team on the project.
	This report could include the work distribution among the team members, module implementation details and possibly codes (along with some text explaining the functionality), simulation reports, and also project archive.
	The project completion timeline should also be included. The report should
	not contain the explanation about the protocol explanations, and if the explanation seems to be necessary, it should be very brief.
	The report should be clear and simple.

Project Report Submission before August 7, 2008

The same as above.

Judges will consist of experts from Altera , Mathworks and Terasic.

The following is a brief of the criteria used to evaluate the projects. This should help participants understand the type of factors that judges take into accounts. The project which has gained the highest scores will win the first prize. The second prize and third prize will be the projects which have the 2nd high and 3rd high scores.

Scoring

	Design Concept
	Complexity (score: 5~0) Functionality (score: 5~0)
	Design Implementation (score: 5~0)
	Integrity of Documentation (score: 5~0)

1st prize – US$1,200

2nd prize – US$ 800

3rd prize – US$ 500