By Bob Bellinger
Wilsonville, Ore. - Engineering students from Rutgers University and the University of Michigan took first-place honors in the 1996 Student VLSI Design Contest.
Michigan grad students Phiroze Parakh and Todd Basso won the experienced category with a design entitled "A High-Speed CGaAs using Domino Logic."
Rutgers students Madhu K. Iyer and G. Parthasarathy won the novice category for "Design of a Branch Prediction Controller Chip."
The contest was sponsored by Advanced Micro Devices, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Mentor Graphics, which established the contest in 1994.
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