On May 18th & 19th, 2013, the 9th edition of the international “Digilent Design Contest” took place at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The contest was organized by Digilent RO (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), in cooperation with Digilent, Inc. and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology.
39 teams coming from Universities in Cluj-Napoca, Brasov, Iasi, Constanta, Targu Mures, Timisoara, Baia-Mare, Bucharest (Romania), Debrecen, Budapest (Hungary), Istanbul (Turkey), London (UK), Kempten (Germany), Tartu (Estonia) and more, qualified in the final stage of presentation & judging.
In the award ceremony, held Sunday, May 19th, winners were awarded certificates by Prof. Dr. Eng. Gabriel Oltean, Vice-dean of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and prizes by representatives of the co-organizer companies.
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Gábor Csire
Attila Végh
University of Debrecen Debrecen, Hungary
First Prize
Automatic PCB drill and CNC machine – a machine which is able to automatic drilling or milling a printed circuit board (PCB) or build a CNC machine which can perform positioning in three directions and is able to work with the command set of G code like drilling or milling
Nicolae Rosia
Bogdan Chifor
Military Technical Academy Bucharest, Romania
ARM Award
SecureLink – a modular, high-performance (~400 MB/s) framework which permits complex operations to be processed in FPGA, freeing the CPU to do more important tasks. A Linux kernel module exports a character device which acts as a FIFO device into which you write data that’s going to be encrypted and you read back the result of the cryptographic operation.
Bogdan Bacrau
Transilvania University of Brasov
Brasov, Romania
Microchip Award
DrumBot – a smart mechanical arm that can precisely remake a rhythm done by the human user on an acoustic drum. The remade beats should not only respect the moment in which the original beats occurred but should also respect the intensity and position of each beat.a smart mechanical arm that can precisely remake a rhythm done by the human user on an acoustic drum.
George-Laurentiu Tudorache
Amet Erol
Maritime University,
Constanta, Romania
Microchip Award
Voice Controlled Robot – a simple but versatile robot capable of interacting with humans and the surrounding environment just by listening to some simple voice commands. It is also able to reply to it’s master by displaying his status and the data requested and also by giving a spoken feedback
George Lucian Robu
Lucian Priscu
Transilvania University of Brasov
Brasov, Romania
Honorable Mention
Automation Project for a Natural Gas Compressing Skid – an automation project implemented via a microcontroller solution, using the following structure. An infinite loop will sample at a sufficient frequency the values received from the sensors and will generate corresponding output signals
