European FPGA Developer Contest 2020

        

 

The contest for 2020 is finished: THANKS for all, who have attended the contest!

Arrow EMEA is very proud to announce the winners of the European FPGA Developer Contest 2020:

1st place:  Health Care ECG – Companion Robot (AnalogMAX-DAQ1)
Health Care, ECG monitoring robot for detection of cardiac anomalies. Companion robot capable of acquiring ECG signals by using an AnalogMAX DAQ-1 and analyzing them using DeepLearning and Intel Openvino & Movidius Neural Compute Stick2.

2nd place:  AI Convolution Engine (CYC1000)
Running convolution AI algorithms/engines on Intel FPGAs reduces calculation time massively and brings power consumption down to a minimum. 
Processing time:   CYC1000: ~1.1ms  /   i5 CPU: ~0.8ms  /   RasPI P3: ~66ms
The result show impressively how a small low-cost Intel FPGA can be 60x faster than a RasperryPI P3. FPGAs are a perfect fit for AI/CNN.

3rd place:  Health Care System - Atmo - AirQuality monitor (AnalogMAX-DAQ1)
The developed device is intended to help people who suffer from asthma and allergies.
The device tests the air quality and indicates the quality level with an LED ring. With a high level of accuracy and low power, all data values are stored over time. The AnalogMax-DAQ1 is used to capture the data points from the sensors.

If you are interested to test an Arrow Promotion Board, please get in contact with us. 
Thanks to all attendees and supporters!

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Summary and Winners:

After a very successful contest in 2019 with a 3-digit number of attendees, Arrow decided to repeat this competition in 2020 and enable creative ideas to be born with Intel FPGAs. This year 147 attendees registered to the contest. By providing the project details of their applications, attendees got a free of charge Arrow FPGA promotion board, e.g. MAX1000, CYC1000, AnalogMAX or AnalogMAX-DAQ1/2, to develop hardware and software on the board. In October, the final phase started, where everybody could attend the contest to win a prize, by providing detailed information on their progress with their application and to present their results.
The idea behind the contest is to enable developers an easy entry point to the FPGA technology by providing a free of charge Arrow FPGA board. Supporting great ideas of the community and the developer scene, is a mindset of Arrow Electronics as an innovation driver. And full flexible FPGAs are a perfect fit, to build everything that you can imagine.
Amazing projects came in day by day, with excellent ideas what can be done with Intel FPGA boards and how the benefits of an FPGA can enable new applications.

Here a small snap shot of some fantastic projects from the contest 2020, to get an impression how strong the FPGA community is:

FireAlarm System, OrangeBot Motor Controller, 3D-printer safety monitor, BlockChain supply, Smart Hydroponic system, Drone collision and avoidance, SDR multi-technology LPWAN, Metal sheet vibration measurement, Smoke the bacon!, Sport Analytics, Fire Container, BatDetector, Optical GAS sensor, Exodus Space Systems Cubesat, Laboratory Conditions Monitor ESCAP, Free mixer high resolution FHR, Automotive data logger, CDMA encoding and decoding, Radiation Detector, Radio propagation station, Stimulation of neural stem cells, Brainfuck CPU in FPGA, FIDO Authenticator, RNN on FPGA, FPGA SDRAM Tester, Findacrasch, Traffic light reconfigurator, Raytrace1000, Hoverboard Servant, PhotoniumLink, CNN on Cyclone10, BikeSafe, Additive MIDI Synthesizer, Seismic Data Log, FM Audio Transmitter,…

Watch out for the new upcoming developer contest April 2021.

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Select one of the Intel FPGA Promotion Boards
	MAX1000:  - Single chip MAX10 FPGA - 8kLE  - Security Flash  - USB/UART interface  - Acceleration Sensor  - PMOD/LEDs/Switches		AnalogMAX – DAQ1 - Single chip MAX10 FPGA - 8kLE - Full data Acquisition Signal Chain - AD8475: Diff. Amplifier & ADC Driver - AD4003: 18-Bit, 2 MSPS, SAR ADC - PC data analytic environment
	CYC1000 - Low power Cyclone10 LP FPGA - 25kLE - 8 MB SDRAM, 2 MB Flash - USB/UART interface - Acceleration Sensor - PMOD/LEDs/Switches		AnalogMAX – DAQ2 - Single chip MAX10 FPGA - 8kLE - μModule Data Acquisition System - High-accuracy, low noise, differential - ADAQ7980: 16-bit, 1 MSPS - PC data analytic environment
	AnalogMAX - Single chip MAX10 FPGA - 8kLE - Smoke Sensor ADPD188BI - 8 Channel ADC/DAC/GPIO IC - Acceleration/Temp. Sensor - Jupyter/Python environment		AnalogMAX – DAQ3 - Single chip MAX10 FPGA - 8kLE - μModule Data Acquisition System - High-accuracy, low noise, differential - ADAQ4003: 18-Bit, 2 MSPS - PC data analytic environment

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The best projects will be awarded:

1st prize: Intel NUC PC
2nd prize: Realsense Camera D435
3rd prize: Movidius Neural Compute Stick 2