The Black Widow $10,000 Design Challenge rewards the most inventive designs made with Freescale's low-end microcontrollers.
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Freescale design challenge looks for the next 8-bit ‘killer app’ |
North American developers to vie for $10,000 grand prize and chance to demonstrate the winning application at the 2007 Freescale Technology Forum in AUSTIN, Texas – Jan. 15, 2007 – Freescale Semiconductor is offering embedded engineers and engineering students in the United States, Canada and Mexico the opportunity to free their imaginations and turn great design ideas into 8-bit innovations. The Black Widow $10,000 Design Challenge, which rewards the most inventive designs with cash prizes and high-profile recognition, includes free technical training and a discounted price for the USBSYPDER08 development tool supporting Freescale's MC9S08QG, MC9S08QD and MC9RS08KA families of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). Registration for the design challenge opens Jan. 15 and closes April 6, 2007. For additional information about entry requirements, official rules, the design selection process and winner notifications, please visit www.freescale.com/blackwidow. Contestants in this challenge will experience how easy it is to design embedded applications based on Freescale's highly integrated 8-bit MCUs, which are supported by a plethora of development tools and design resources, including CodeWarrior™ Development Studio Special Edition for Freescale's HC(S)08/RS08 MCUs. ”We're encouraging design challenge contestants to push their creativity to the limit and create killer applications based on our widely used 8-bit MCU architecture,” said Mike McCourt, vice president and general manager of Freescale's Microcontroller Division. “Engineers will learn just how versatile our low-end MCUs can be for embedded applications, while gaining hands-on experience with our 8-bit MCUs and the wide array of software and hardware tools we offer to simplify the development process.” Design challenge details* All entries must be submitted online by April 6. Entries may be submitted by individuals or groups. Each submission will be reviewed by a panel of Freescale judges for creativity, design efficiency, technical complexity, total Freescale product quantity, usefulness and overall application rating. Freescale plans to announce the top 10 finalists on April 13. Each finalist will receive a $1,000 (USD) award. The finalists will be invited to build prototypes of their designs and submit them to Freescale for final judging. The grand prize winner will receive $10,000 and free admission to the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) in About the QD4 microcontroller family About the QG8 microcontroller family About the KA microcontroller family About the USBSPYDER08 About the Freescale Technology Forum About Freescale Semiconductor |
Message Edited by Alban on 2007-01-16 10:25 AM