First Runner Up in Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest
Hyderabad, April 10, 2012
Texas Instruments – India conducts TI Analog Design Contest annually to encourage System level design projects using TI’s broad range of high performance analog integrated circuits. In the first round, they select 20 teams from the all the entries from India and award a cash prize of $1500 to each team. These top twenty teams will compete in the final round to win the Engibous Prize for their innovation. The first prize amount of $10,000, the Second prize amount of $7500 and third prize amount of $5000 will be awarded to the final winners.
Three teams from BVRIT have participated in the TI Analog Design contest 2010. The teams are
- Nitin Menon & Akhila – III BME – “Quadriplegic tilt control monitoring systems”, where the tilt of the head actuates the wheel chair, the direction of movement of the chair being dependent on the direction of tilt.
- Anwesha & Gopi Krishna & Ahok Naidu – Speech and Touch based smart home infrastructure for physically challenged.
- Bhargava & Manisha – Multi purpose voice activated alarm system.
Nitin Menon & Akhila won a prize amount of $1500 in the first round and US $3750 in the final round. They were adjudged the first runner up jointly with Amrita school of Engineering, Coimbatore for their innovative product.
