The 1995 Digital Signal Processing Solutions Challenge is a skills-based contest sponsored by TI for university students in participating countries around the world. It calls for submission of a design using a TI DSP and software (if applicable) that is functional in an application.
The worldwide grand-prize-winning team will receive prize moneys totaling U.S. $100,000. There will be nine first-round regional awards of U.S. $1,000, and all nine regional winners will automatically be eligible to compete, using the same design submission, in three separate semi-final geographic territories. Three teams will be grouped according to geographic territory, and will compete against each other. One team among each of the three semi-final territories will be chosen as a semi-final winner and will receive U.S. $9,000 prize money, plus a chance to compete with the other two semi-finalists in the last round of the contest for a final reward of U.S. $90,000.
Each participating design team must include one advising professor. The advising professor for the worldwide grand-prize-winning team will receive a cash prize of U.S. $15,000 and the option of a six-month sabbatical at Texas Instruments with the TMS320 DSP Group located in Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
All contest teams must submit a completed entry form, with a 100-word abstract describing their project, to TI by June 30, 1995 to be eligible to compete. Final project submissions must be delivered to one of TI's regional contest headquarters by December 31, 1995. Winners of the nine regional prizes will be announced by February 29, 1996 and the worldwide grand-prize-winning team will be announced in April of 1996.
If you have questions or need additional information about the contest, you may inquire in writing or send a FAX or email to:
TI 1995 DSP Solutions Challenge Worldwide Contest Headquarters Texas Instruments Incorporated P.O. Box 1443 Mail Station 737 Houston, Texas 77251-1443 Fax: 713/274-2573 email or computer address: UNIV@msg.ti.com.