Winners of $60,000 Analog Design Challenge Announced
The Analog Design Contest was open to any designer worldwide and over 26,000 people requested design kits!
We were seeking a real-world design that exhibited the most extensive and inventive use of TI analog, digital and mixed-signal components. Independent judges from the CMP editorial staff and Academia were responsible for selecting the winning designs. Winners were chosen based on originality, feasibility, manufacturability and how extensively and well the design utilized TI products.
Total prize money for the design challenge is $60,000 (US Dollars): $5,000 to a winner in each designated region of the world (Asia, Japan, Europe and The Americas) and a grand prize of $40,000 to the best entry overall as determined by the judges.
Overall Winner:
Title: Computer-Based ECG Monitoring Through Rf Telemetry
Entrant: Murugavel Raju, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Description: This system incorporates a wireless link for transmitting bio-signals from a patient to the monitoring device, which in this case is a PC. The frequency of operation is 315MHZ and this is quite above the prevailing noise frequencies in the medical environment. Incidentally, this is also the approved frequency for short-range communication in India.
Regional Winner - Europe
Title: The Electronic Pen
Entrants: Dmitry Ivanovsky & Yuri Tormishev, Minsk, Belarus
Description: The electronic pen is a cordless and battery-operated computer pointing device. It provides a convenient human-computer communication. The electronic pen acts like a mouse, doing everything a mouse can do. It can also be used for non-keyboard input of handwriting information into a computer during the writing. The pen work result is an original paper document and its digital copy in a computer memory.
Regional Winner - Asia
Title: Sound Distance Meter
Entrant: Sani Sanjaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Description: The sound distance meter is a piece of electronic equipment that measures the distance of sounds. The target application is for usage with robots. It enables the robot to predict the positioning and distance of the sound source. This increases the ability and accuracy of the robot in performing actions designated by it's programmer.
Regional Winner - Americas
Title: TPA005D02 Class-D Stereo Audio Power Amplifier and MSP430 Mixed Signal Microcontroller Enable Miniature Low-Power Micro-Stepper and Servo Drives
Entrant: Gerald F. Cummings, Port Moody, BC, Canada
Description: With external current feedback, the TPA005D02 Class-D Audio Amplifier becomes an efficient transconductance amplifier. Under control of the MSP430 Mixed Signal Microcontroller, typical standby current is less than 1.5 mA, making the design suitable for battery powered motion control applications including paper paths in portable printers, scanners, and fax machines.
Regional Winner - Japan
Title: High Speed Synchronous 12-Lead ECG
Entrant: Lin Ling, Sapporo, Japan
Description: ECG (Electrocardiograph) is a powerful tool for diagnosis of heart disease. Most of ECG are one-or-three-lead ECG, in which one-or-three-leads of signal are synchronous sampled in one time. This kind of ECG needs more time when recording all of the 12-leads ECG signals. The waves recorded by this kind of ECG can not synchronously offer information of all the 12-leads. Therefore, a design of synchronous 12-lead ECG with high speed is presented.
