2009 Memocode design contest

The third annual design contest for the Memocode conference is coming up this March. Here's information for those wishing to participate (from one of the contest organizers):

MEMOCODE 2009 will again have a design contest. The contest will start March 1, 2009. The deadline for submission is March 31, 2009 and the notification of the results is on May 8, 2009. The conference will sponsor at least two prize categories, each with a $1000 cash award. Each team that submits a complete and working entry will be invited to submit for review a 2-page abstract for the formal conference proceedings; prize winning teams will be invited to contribute a 4-page short paper. For more information, please visit http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe/mc09.html.

Last year's results are pretty interesting and available here: http://memocode.irisa.fr/2008/designcontest08/everybodywins/index.html

2007's results are available here: http://memocode.irisa.fr/2007/designcontest07/

The Bluespec solutions are only as good as the architecture envisioned by the team using it. Like the BASF advertisement ("We don't make a lot of the products you buy; we make a lot of the products you buy better!"), Bluespec doesn't make the architectures you design; it let's you express/build them faster and with many fewer bugs -- and have time to explore them.

(Bluespec provides free tools to universities for research and teaching purposes. If you want to consider using Bluespec for the contest, we'd suggest not waiting until the last minute.)