LSI Design Contest in Okinawa, which has been conducted as part of the lesson of the University of the Ryukyus Faculty of Engineering initially, will celebrate the 21th at the earliest in 2018. In the meantime, participation from universities and technical colleges in the country not only increased, participation from foreign universities in Korea, Indonesia, and Vietnam also increased steadily in Asia, making it an international Design Contest, which is also more than 100 cases of applicants now

Well, LSI Design Contest in Okinawa this year come back with a new design challenge which is "Neural Network".

In LSI Design Contest in Okinawa, we have presented the award of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of (Technical Committee on Smart Info-Media System) to the excellent design team from 2008. We expect applicants to design more unique to win this prize. Please try to challenge energetically!

Winners are invited to a conference in Okinawa, and we are planning to give original T-shirt to all participants.

• Updated the Contest Result.
• (2017/11/20) Updated the　Challenge for experts level　in Design Specification - 4
• (2017/11/10) Updated the　Tutorial-PDF(Vivado) , verilog-HDL ver2, details of hardware design in Design Specification - 4
• (2017/10/23) Updated the Tutorial-PDF(ISE Design Suite) file for simulation in Design Specification - 4
• (2017/10/23) Updated the verilog-HDL file for simulation in Design Specification - 4
• (2017/10/20) Updated the outline of hardware design in Design Specification - 4
• (2017/10/06) Updated the calculation example (PDF) in Design Specification
• (2017/9/14) Updated the source code in Design Specification
• (2017/9/01)  Updated the 2018 edition page.

• Design challenge :"Neural Network(Backpropagation)"
• Design Specification
• Who can join :  the team of 1-3 University or college students.
• The final report deadline  :  Wednesday, 31st January, 2018 → Friday, 9th February, 2018
• Report
• In this home page, we have used Synphony Model Compiler as a development tool;howver, applicants can freely use any type of architecutre as well as any EDA tools.
• Any Q&A: support@LSI-contest.com

• Contest Starting Time: Friday，9th Mar，2018 13:00
• Presentation 10-min, Q&A:5-min
• Prepare ppt file less than 10-slide.

• We try to evaluate not only the speed and the area, but also your idea ,originality, uniqueness. But be sure to remember that we are not perfect, please make a good presentation to appeal us.
• We definitely take your school grade into account.
• We like fun ideas. Please do something different from others.

• Place :  50th Anniversary Memorial Hall Department of Computer Science, University of the Ryukyus
• Address :  Chihaya1,Nishihara City,Okinawa 903-0213,Japan
• Campus Map 30

• Contest General Chair
      Prof. Hiroshi Ochi
      Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
      E-mail: Ochi@cse.kyutech.ac.jp Tel: +81-0948-29-7692
• Contest Judge Member Chair
      Prof. Kazuhisa Wada
      University of the Ryukyus, Japan
• Committee Member
      Masayuki Kurosaki, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
      Leonardo Lanante Jr., Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
      Wahyul Shafei Amien, University of Diponegoro, Indonesia
• Executive Committee: LSI Design Contest Committee, Okinawa Prefecture
• Partner Organization: University of the Ryukyus, Kyushu Institute of Technology
• Sponsor: Synopsys,  Electronic Device Industry News, Gigafirm,
  Analog Devices, Inc., Industry Association of Okinawa
Technical Committee on Smart Info-media System(SIS),Eiginnering Sciences
Society(ESS),IEICE
• Supporting Organization: Okinawa National College of Technology, CQ Publishing Co.,Ltd.,
  Kyusyu Polytechnic College,Okinawa Polytechnic College.