CSE Department IIT Madras presents
exebit 2010

As part of exebit we have

Verilog Programming Contest

http://www.exebit.org/2010/olevents/verilog/

Are you the kind who always wanted to design digital circuits, but found the breadboard approach frustrating and time consuming? Ever wondered how ICs were designed starting from their specification but without going as far down as the transistor level? In short, we are talking of Computer Aided Design or the exciting area of Hardware description languages, where programming languages take on a whole different meaning: they describe functional pieces of hardware and not a sequence of executable instructions.

The contest will be a freestyle one where you will be given the description of a circuit that needs to be designed along with a set of test cases that need to be verified in order to ascertain that the circuit actually works. So, if you wanted to do things like implementing packet look ups in hardware, signal processing in hardware, or a PID controller, this is the contest for you. This is your chance to explore and learn what it takes to make an IC, to the extent that at the end of it you would probably be left wondering how Jack Kilby ever designed the first IC completely by hand !!