ISPD:  Contests on physical design topics.  To collect your prize, you need to make yoru source accessible to other researchers.  (This policy has been successful so far)  Budget $1750/year - $1000 first, $500 second, $250 third place.  in 2008, ISPD kicked in an equal amount.

    2007: Global routing:  www.sigda.org/ispd2007/rcontest/

    2008: Global Routing:  www.sigda.org/ispd2008/contests/ispd08rc.html

    2009: Clock tree generation: www.sigda.org/ispd/contests/ispd09cts.html

Memocode:

    The Memocode Contest is a month-long team design effort on a announced problem which must be solved on a limited, reconfigurable platform. The
contest is judged by a team of academic and industry experts based on performance and design elegance and efficiency metrics. The purse is supported in part by $1,000 from CEDA and similar dondations from Industry. Typically Xilinx donates $1-2k, other donations have been from Nokia, Qualcomm, Synopsys...

    2007: (Matrix Multiplication): http://memocode.irisa.fr/2007/designcontest07/

    2008: (Encripted File Sorting): http://memocode.irisa.fr/2008/designcontest08/

    2009: (--): http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe/wiki/index.php/2009_Memocode_Co-Design_Contest

IWLS?

    IWLS details go here

Possible workshops and conferences that may be ccandidates for future CEDA support - Please take a look and see which ones make sense.