Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Zilog
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 February 2007
Top microcontroller designs revealed
A design for an automated window blind controller has taken top prize in a design contest based on Zilog's 16bit ZNEO microcontrollers
Zilog has announced the results of its new 16bit ZNEO Design Contest - co-sponsored by Mouser Electronics, one of Zilog's leading distributors - which was announced last September. Open to the global design community, the contest was intended to highlight the design potential of Zilog's recently announced high-performance 16bit ZNEO Flash-based, embedded microcontroller.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 February 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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'I'd like to congratulate all of the participants and our three winners', said Dr Norman Sheridan, Zilog's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
'We had an awesome response from the embedded design engineering community with design entries demonstrating a wide variety of potential applications for our new 16bit embedded MCU family'.
'Our judges based their decisions on how well each entrant leveraged the capabilities of the ZNEO MCU, as well as the innovativeness, technical excellence, practicality and creativity of the designs submitted'.
'Picking the top three designs was not easy'.
First place (and US $2000) was awarded to an automated window blind controller developed by Todd Hochwitz, Design Engineer with Technical Mandala, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Second place (US $1000) went to an Internet-ready refrigerator designed by Dustin Graves, Computer Scientist at the US Naval Research Lab, Arlington, Virginia.
And third place ($500) was awarded to a continuous reciprocal frequency counter devised by Jim Granville, a designer at MGE, Auckland, New Zealand.
Each of the next 25 runners up receive Zilog ZNEO Limited Edition Contest shirts.
Awards and contest shirts will be presented to the winners through local Zilog field sales offices.
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