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    UK Pedal4Innovation student design contest opens

    10/05/2012

    Pedal4Innovation is back for the young, brilliant, and motivated future electronic engineers in the UK. This is all about them showing the skills they have amassed throughout their electronic-engineering studies with the prize of three scholarships, each worth £3000. SILICA, an Avnet company, and its partners have gathered a large mass of design boards for this contest. Partnering companies include Analog Devices, ARM, Avnet Abacus, Cedar, Cypress, Freescale, Intel, Maxim Integrated, Microchip, Micron, NXP, Renasas, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx. Participants are asked to visit the pedal4innovation online (link below), read the contest's rules of engagement, and download the board catalog.  All the boards are described there, so it should be easy to figure out which boards you will need to work with. Please keep in mind:

    • Choose only up to 3 development boards.
    • The boards are available in limited quantities. SILICA will send them out on a first-come-first-served basis.
    • Be sure to be mentioning the name of the boards you choose, as it is cited in the P4I board catalog.
    Registrations will be accepted between now and November 30, 2012. Designs can be submitted until March 31, 2013. Direct questions to the Q&A forum. Silica.com Pedal4Innovation deeplink Q&A forum deeplink

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