European University Program

What is the ADC?

Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest is an initiative to encourage system-level design within Universities. This is an opportunity for students to work on a design project using TI’s broad range of high-performance analog Integrated Circuits (IC’s) to win a cash prize!

Benefits of Entering

• Hands-on experience with TI technology – request up to $100 worth of tools and samples!
• Industry recognition of your analog design skills
• Enhanced career prospects
• Real cash prizes

Who Can Enter?

ADC is open to teams of between 2-5 members. Entrants must be eighteen years of age or older and registered engineering students (undergraduates, Masters and PhDs) at a university in one of the participating countries listed below:

Employees of TI and its affiliates, their immediate family and household members are prohibited from entering this contest.

Please note that this contest is held in English and all relevant information, including the online registration form, is provided by Texas Instruments in English.

For more information, please see the ADC Rules and download for each translated version:

What Can You Win?

Round 1: In the first round, there will be twenty winning teams. Each of these teams will be awarded a cash prize of US$ 1,000

Round 2: The top twenty winning teams from ‘Round 1’ will automatically proceed to the second level of judging. These top twenty teams will compete against each other to win the “Engibous Prize For Innovation In Analog” (Engibous Prize).

The Engibous Prize will be awarded as follows:

*Note: All cash prizes are paid in US$ to the team leader of a winning team.

What is the ‘Engibous Prize?’

Named in honor of Thomas Engibous Thomas (Tom) Engibous is chairman of Texas Instruments and has been a member of the TI Board of Directors since 1996.
Mr. Engibous joined TI in 1976, the same year he earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, Indiana, USA. In addition to his Master’s degree, Mr. Engibous earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering in 1997.
He entered TI as an integrated circuit design engineer and spent his operational career in the company’s semiconductor business holding management responsibilities in analog products and application-specific products businesses.
In 1993, Mr. Engibous was elected TI Executive Vice President and President of the Semiconductor Group. He remained in this position until his promotion to President and CEO of the company in June 1996, where he helped transform TI to the semiconductor company focused on making chips for the signal processing markets of today.
In addition to his TI duties, Mr. Engibous is a member of the Catalyst board of directors, serves as a trustee of Southern Methodist University, and is a member of the Purdue University Engineering Visiting Committee.
He is a member of the board of directors of J.C. Penney Company, Inc., and serves as a trustee on the Southwest Medical Foundation. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). , the recently retired Chairman of Texas Instruments, the Engibous Prize makes first, second, third and fourth place cash prizes to teams of engineering students. Projects must incorporate either three TI analog devices or two TI analog devices and a TI processor.

In the Analog Design Contest, you compete with other teams from Universities across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In the Engibous Prize, the top twenty teams compete against each other. The assessment criteria is the same as for the ADC, but the top twenty reports are judged by 3 independent judges:- an eminent analog Tier, a University professor, and an industry professional.

Download the judging assessment criteria here.