Introduction

LSI Design Contest in Hokkaido, which has been conducted as part of the lesson of the University of the Ryukyus Faculty of Engineering initially, will celebrate the 30th at the earliest in 2027. 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 Hokkaido this year come back with a new design challenge which is "CNN implementation (any number of layers)."

In LSI Design Contest in Hokkaido, 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 Hokkaido, and we are planning to give original T-shirt to all participants.

Transmission system

ENJOY HDL! Let's meet in Hokkaido!

What's New!

  • (2026/08/01)  2027 LSI design contest website has been published.


This year's schedule

  • Design theme: CNN implementation (any number of layers)
  • Report Deadline: Sunday, 31st January 2027.
  • Presentation: Friday, 5th March 2027
  • For ZERO7 board lending and availability, please contact support@LSI-contest.com. (Mail title: Zero7 board Univ. name Your name)

    • Guidelines for applicants

    • Design challenge :"CNN implementation (any number of layers)"
    • Design Specification
    • Who can join :  the team of 1-3 University or college students.
    • The final report deadline  :   Sunday, 31st January 2027
    • Submit or any Q&A: support@LSI-contest.com

    About Presentation

    • Contest: Friday, 5th March 2027
    • The contest will be held in a hybrid format of online via Zoom and on-site.
    • Each team has 10 minutes to present a maximum of 10 slides and 5 minutes for a Q&A session.

    Suggestion from judges

    • 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.

    Access

    • Place :  Chitose, Hokkaido
    • Venue :  Hokkaido Gas Bunka Hall (Chitose Civic Cultural Center), Chitose, Hokkaido
    • Address   :   2-2-11 Hokuei, Chitose, Hokkaido 066-0036, Japan
    • Access and Parking

    LSI Contest Executive Committee

    • Contest General Chair
          Professor Masayuki Kurosaki
          Reliable Intelligent System Research Center, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
          E-mail: kurosaki [ commercial at ] csn.kyutech.ac.jp
    • Committee Member
          Professor Emeritus Masahiro Fujita, VLSI Design and Education Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan
          Professor Takao Onoye, Associate Dean, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
          Professor Emeritus Hiroshi Ochi, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (Special Professor at Kurume Institute of Technology)
          Professor Emeritus Yoshio Ito, Tottori University, Japan
          Takeo Yoshida, University of the Ryukyus, Japan
          Professor Trio Adiono, Institute Technology Bandung, Indonesia
          Wahyul Syafei Amien, University of Diponegoro, Indonesia
          Supporting companies and corporate judges
    • Executive Committee: LSI Design Contest Committee
    • Partner Organization: Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Kyushu Institute of Technology, University of the Ryukyus
    • Sponsor(Prospective): Electronic Device Industry News, Gigafirm,
      Radrix, Kyushu Measuring Instruments
      • Technical Committee on Smart Info-media System(SIS),Eiginnering Sciences
      Society(ESS),IEICE
    • Supporting Organization: CQ Publishing Co.,Ltd.