Cette page collectionne les concours (challenges) pour les électroniciens:

Live Edge : http://www.live-edge.com

Electronic Design for the Global Environment

Bienvenue au Concours Live Edge 2008, la conception respectueuse de l’environnement

Participants qualifiés Cette année, le concours distinguera deux catégories différentes : les étudiants et le grand public. Le concours grand public est destiné aux ingénieurs en électronique, inventeurs, amateurs et tout autre personne qui n’est pas étudiant à plein temps. Les designs seront jugés en comparaison des autres designs de la même catégorie.

Les conditions d’admissibilité du Design au Live EDGE sont intentionnellement larges afin d’ouvrir le concours à un large panel d’idées. Pour participer, votre design doit être original et innovant, utiliser des composants électriques et/ou électroniques, et avoir un impact positif sur l’environnement, tel que l’augmentation de l’efficacité de l’utilisation d’énergie ou la réduction d’émissions de carbone. Nous vous invitons à visualiser un design sélectionné (pdf 286Kb) et les designs gagnants de l’édition 2007.

Vous pouvez enregistrer votre projet sur ce site internet entre le 1er octobre 2008 et le 31 janvier 2009 en suivant la procédure d’inscription. Les noms des gagnants seront annoncés en mars 2009.
Les récompenses du Live EDGE Le concours ne récompense non seulement chacun des deux gagnants d’un prix en espèces de $25 000, mais il fournit également un panel de services pour commercialiser les designs, pour un montant de $25 000 chacun. Les six autres gagnants recevront également $5 000 chacun. Les participants conservent le droit de propriété sur leur design, ce qui signifie que deux lauréats auront le plaisir de voir leur design devenir réalité, de bénéficier de tous les avantages commerciaux et avoir la satisfaction d’aider l’environnement. Vous pouvez être l’un d’entre eux.

FTF Design Challenge : http://www.freescale.com

lien : http://www.freescale.com/designchallenge

Make your innovative green design the star of FTF 2008.
The FTF Design Challenge rewards the most inventive green embedded designs with cash prizes and high-profile recognition. Challenges are open around the world.

Win a seat in the Grand FTF Design Challenge

The 1st place winners of each 2008 FTF will have a chance to win an additional $50,000 USD, attend the 2009 FTF of their choice and showcase their winning prototype.

RoboChamps : http://www.robochamps.com/

Microchip PIC32 Design Challenge : http://www.mypic32.com

The objective of this full-year, four-phase Design Challenge is to foster a social community where contestants can build, test, and display their designs, based on the PIC32 Starter Kit, to the community. A set of three judges, as well their Community Member peers, will vote to see who survives each phase. Winners receive great prizes along the way! The contestant that makes it through the four phases and is voted the 2008 PIC32 Design Challenge’s Ultimate Embedded Designer will win a high-end home theatre system (or cash equivalent) worth over $8,000!

Registered Community Members can rate each design, according to the design value criteria, as well as vote for their favorite design. Registered members are eligible for weekly prizes based on their participation and activity within the community. Click here to see complete details for prizes and contest rules and regulations.

Total value of prizes to community members and contestants exceeds $150,000!

Once you sign up as a community member, you can change to a contestant by simply filling in your personal myPIC32 page! Contestants that do not make it to the next stage, are automatically considered members and can rate and vote for contestant and qualify for weekly member prizes.

Contestants that do not make it to the next stage are automatically considered members. They can rate and vote for contestants and qualify for weekly member prizes.

TECH TRENDS - THE CHALLENGES OF EMBEDDED WIRELESS DESIGN

The emergence of ubiquitous wireless connectivity is changing almost everything we know about embedded systems design. What we thought we knew about power management, security, reliability and real time and deterministic operation now has to be re-evaluated.For one thing, there are no wires, which means that each embedded design is on its own as far as power is concerned. Now designers must be concerned not only with ways to get the speed and performance needed, but at the lowest power consumption possible.

Reliability of the network, especially in applications requiring deterministic and real-time operation, must move to the top of the agenda. Also high on the list of concerns must be security: unlike the largely closed environments of the last decade, a wirelessly connected embedded system is open to all of the “slings and arrows” the world can throw at it.

All aspects of these issues are covered in the articles referenced in this issue of the Embedded Tech Trends newsletter, including choosing a low power wireless network protocol, wireless power-save protocols, RF thermal management, simulating wireless nets, and low power wireless mesh networks.

What are the challenges facing you? And what kinds of articles would you like to see? Have you come up with a design you think the rest of us would like to know about? Both as readers and as potential authors, I would like to hear from you. (Bernard Cole, Site Editor, Embedded.com, 602-288-7257, bccole@acm.org)
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