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VLSI MAKE-A-THON 2

The VLSI Research group of School of Electronics Engineering at VIT

University, Chennai, is organizing a 24 hours VLSI Make-a-Thon for

imparting and igniting the research interest for the students. This

technical quest will provide opportunity for students to explore on the

capabilities of various EDA tools for the design and verification of

VLSI Full/Semi Custom IC. This event consist of five different levels

of challenges, participants are expected to complete each level

successfully in order to move up to the next level. The degree of

challenge will increase as they go up the level. The participants will

be evaluated in each level by two evaluators. The evaluation is done

on the design methodology used, innovative ideas on solving the
problem and the time taken for the design. The top three scorers will

awarded_prizes.

74 students participated from SENSE and SELECT schools.

Participants were actively involved and did their best. First Prize

winner is Team 1, Second Prize winner is Team 7, Third prize was

shared by two teams – Team 9 & 19. Mr. Sreenath Thangarajan is

the one who won the free online course offered by VERIFAST

Technologies.