Atmel has launched the DIOPSiS DSP Design Contest 2005
First price is 6000Euro.
Atmel will be happy to have Universities andd Colleges participating in the contest.
By combining a floating-point VLIW digital signal processor core with an ARM7 microcontroller on the same chip, Atmel Corp. adds a new wrinkle in an already intensely competitive DSP solutions arena. The AT572D740 Diopsis dual processor at 100 MHz delivers 1 billion floating-point operations per second (1 GFLOPS) and 1.5 GOPS total. There are also lots of peripherals functions and memory embedded on chip. There are two SPI serial ports, two USARTS, a timer counter, watchdog, parallel I/O port (PIO), peripheral data controller, 8 ADC and 8 DAC interfaces, clock generator and interrupt controller".