Hi Again, I just wanted to say the SoC Labs Design Contest is now underway and we would love to engage with people on custom accelerator projects. Just a reminder of what we are up to: SoC Labs contest for Arm based design with sponsored conference support and tape out. SoC Labs, the global academic community for Arm-based SoC design hosted by the University of Southampton, is holding a ‘Bridging the Skills Gap’ research and teaching design contest. Six project entries have now secured sponsorship from the design contest. There is still time to get your project started and secure a sponsored place at the IEEE SOCC 2023 conference or to be on a partner-sponsored shuttle! Entries are welcome from relevant pre-existing projects and teaching initiatives not just newly developed activities. Submissions take the form of a project summary. Full details of how to submit a project are available on the SoC Labs website. SoC Labs has received the following project entries (project marked ‘competition’), who have already secured sponsorship. Please also see the SoC Design contest flyer which you can pass on to interested colleagues. Contest Tracks The contest itself consists of two tracks, aimed at design innovation and design skill development respectively: Design Innovation and HW Implementation: 1. FPGA: Research groups interested in implementing either the Cortex-M0 reference design available on SoC Labs, or one of their own Arm based designs, should provide a project summary detailing their design. The best entries will also be sponsored to attend a special industry session IEEE SOCC 2023 in September 2023 in Santa Clara and will receive a free FPGA board. 2. ASIC: Research groups interested in taping-out their designs from above, may include details of their proposed ASIC design and flow to have an opportunity to join a partner-sponsored shuttle planned for free. The target process technology is expected to be 65nm. Collaboration/Education: Academic groups interested in skills development for their students and/or collaborating with other academics should post details of their Arm-based projects to SoC Labs, including enough detail of progress to date to help others solve common or similar problems. SoC Labs would love to see your submissions. Thank you #soclabs

I thought the deadline was 5 June 2023. How much time do we have in order to participate ?

Hi Eleftherios, the deadline of the 5 June was to allow us to review projects at the start of July and give some advance guidance to allow people to know they would receive invites to IEEE SOCC 2023 in September 2023 in Santa Clara, CA, USA where final contest outcomes will be awarded. We planned this as some people may need to make travel and entry visa arrangements. We still intend to review in July to offer direct invites but people are also free to enter the contest and can make their own way to IEEE SOCC 2023 and join the community that will attend. Thanks