2011 IEEE Computer Society Simulator Design Competition

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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 4 January, 2011 - IEEE Computer Society student

member teams can compete to win up to $10,000 for designing a CPU

simulator. The registration deadline is Thursday, 18 January.

Teams are asked to design an instruction set architecture and then

construct a simulator for it. The ISA and simulator will be used to

teach students computer architecture. The architecture should have two

operating modes: register to memory (CISC) or LOAD/STORE (RISC). Teams

can choose their own CISC/RISC architectures.

The top team will be awarded $8,000 and the second-place team $2,000.

The competition will be judged by an international panel selected by

the IEEE Computer Society according to:

* Originality and functionality of the architecture

* Functionality, quality, and versatility of the simulator

* Use of good software design techniques in the simulator design

* The beta testing of the simulator.

Students must have taken a course in architecture and have both

programming and software engineering skills. Teams must submit both a

report and a working program at the end of the competition.

Current IEEE student members can add Computer Society student

membership for $8 if they are based in the US or Canada and $13 if

they live elsewhere in the world. Nonmember students can join both

IEEE and IEEE Computer Society for $40 at

http://www.computer.org/studentoffer. As part of their member

benefits, all student members receive access to the Computer Society

Digital Library.

No team will be judged an overall winner unless their software is

well-constructed using appropriate software engineering methodologies.

All contestants retain all intellectual property rights to their work.

The Computer Society requests only that it be able to publish the

final report and the simulator.

For more information, visit http://www.computer.org/portal/web/competition

About the IEEE Computer Society

With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world's

leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and

the largest of the 38 societies of the Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Computer Society is dedicated to

advancing the theory and application of computer and

information-processing technology, and is known globally for its

computing standards activities. For more information, go to

http://www.computer.org.