For university and graduate school students nationwide
Altera FPGA Design and Creation Promotion

Altera, a programmable solutions company, announced the winners of the Altera Design Contest, which was held again this year.

This contest is part of the Altera University Program and aims to encourage Korean undergraduate and graduate students to design innovative SoPC system designs using Altera FPGAs, to discover their creativity and FPGA design capabilities, and to motivate them to design SoPC system designs.

The final nine teams had the opportunity to present their work on the 22nd at Lotte Hotel World, and the final rankings were determined on-site through the final scoring by the on-site judging panel consisting of the Altera FAE (Field Application Engineer) team. Each of the nine teams had a video demonstration or on-site demo of their work.

The awards ceremony took place on the same day, and a total of 15 million won in prize money was awarded. Related videos will be distributed via YouTube and the contest is sponsored by our University Program and co-hosted by Altera Korea and Altera's exclusive domestic distribution partner, Uniquest (Axios).

Any college or graduate student can register as an individual or team, with a total of 26 universities, 50 teams, and 170 students participating, and after the first proposal review, 35 teams were provided with DE1-SoC development boards.

All individuals/teams submitted their final projects based on DE1-SoC by November 30th, and an award ceremony was held on December 22nd for three winning teams and six Excellence Award teams.

KAIST, Kong-Jung Team Wins Grand Prize

The first prize went to the KAIST team for their 'Iterative Detection and Decoding (IDD) Receiver Design for Massive MIMO Systems for 5th Generation Mobile Communications'. Semey University won second place with their 'Home Network Band Based on the Internet of Things', and third place went to the IDEA_Lab team from Kyunghee University for their 'Visual Light Identification'. Other recipients of the Excellence Award included Kwangwoon University, Kangwon National University, Soongsil University, and Hankyung University.

Donghoon Kim, CEO of Altera Korea, said, “We are very pleased to hold a contest for college and graduate students to promote the Altera University Program in Korea. Through this contest, we hope to discover creative design engineers who will lead the future in various fields including wired and wireless communications and networking, digital home appliances, broadcasting, computers, medical, industrial, and automotive.”