Note:
Do not send the physical project unless you are notified as
being a winner.
Contestants
may enter more than one project but must submit each as a separate
entry. There should be no personal identification or corporate
affiliation markings on ANY of the submitted material. Your
name, address, or corporate affiliation should appear ONLY ON
THE ENTRY FORM. Contestants who leave their names in headers,
footers, table of contents pages, schematics, etc. may be disqualified.
3.
All core hardware must be Atmel brand (check the Circuit
Cellar web site for additions, qualifications, or changes
to these specifications). Visit www.circuitcellar.com/DL2001
for sources of databooks and downloadable development tools.
Sources for development kits and individual chips are available
via the Circuit Cellar web site, your local Atmel sales
office, or a local distributor.
4.
All entries must be received on or before June 15, 2001.
Entries received after this deadline are deemed ineligible.
5.
We encourage all contestants to seek patents for any unique
or proprietary aspects of the design prior to submission. The
design remains the intellectual property of the contestant.
To avoid additional shipping and organizational difficulties,
all copies of entry documentation become the property of Circuit
Cellar and will not be returned. Source code submitted with
any entry remains the property of the entrant and is not distributed
except to the judges nor it is published without the entrant’s
specific permission.
6.
Only winning projects must be shipped to Circuit Cellar
(postal address below). The contestant bears all responsibility
for shipping and insuring their winning entry to Circuit
Cellar. If you are chosen as a winner, we will contact you
with all the details and how you need to ship your project to
us. Projects will be returned once the winning entry is photographed.
In the event of logistical problems in sending your completed
project to us, special arrangements can be made among Circuit
Cellar, Atmel, and the winner as a follow-up alternative.
7.
All contestants entering projects in Atmel’s DESIGN LOGIC 2001
contest agree to assign Circuit Cellar exclusive first-publication
and nonexclusive full-publication rights of the project if they
win any monetary award and if Circuit Cellar elects to
publish it. If the project is published as a separate article
in Circuit Cellar, Circuit Cellar Online, or any other
Circuit Cellar publication, the contestant will be paid
at standard Circuit Cellar Press remuneration. All contestants
entering projects in the Atmel DESIGN LOGIC 2001 contest assign
to Circuit Cellar and Atmel the right to publish (print
or electronic/Internet media) the submitted project abstract.
8.
All Atmel DESIGN LOGIC 2001 contest entries will be judged on
the following: technical merit, originality, cost effectiveness,
utility or applicability, and efficiency of development and
design process. Contest judges have been chosen based on their
familiarity with engineering design, component familiarity,
and experience. Winners will be chosen based on all of the criteria
given. All decisions made by the judges are final.
9.
PRIZES: Prizes will be awarded in three component categories:
FPSLIC, AVR, and FPGA processors. First prize in the FPSLIC
category is $5000. Second prize is $2000 and third prize is
$1000. First prize in the FPGA category is $3000. Second prize
is $2000 and third prize is $1000. First prize in the AVR processor
category is $3000. Second prize is $2000 and third prize is
$1000. Each of the three categories will also award two each
(total of six) Handspring Visor™ PDAs to Honorable Mention
winners. Entries are eligible for an award in a single category
only.
No checks
or prizes will be issued to U.S. residents until a Social Security
number is submitted. All winners will be notified in September
of 2001, as well as featured in the December 2001 issue of Circuit
Cellar. All contestants are invited to submit their design
write-ups for future Circuit Cellar articles.
10.
Contest rules are subject to change. Check
www.circuitcellar.com/DL2001 for up-to-date information
and answers to frequently
asked questions (FAQ).
11.
Address all correspondence concerning the contest to:
Atmel
DESIGN LOGIC 2001 Contest
Circuit Cellar • 4 Park St. • Vernon, CT 06066
(860) 875-2199 • Fax: (860) 871-0411
www.circuitcellar.com/DL2001
contest.administrator@circuitcellar.com
FINE PRINT • Atmel is solely responsible for the
payment and distribution of all prizes and monetary awards.
The prizes will be awarded and mailed to the winners. There
will be no substitution for prizes other than as offered. Taxes
are the sole responsibility of the winners. The winners agree
that signing the contest entry form constitutes an affidavit
of eligibility and agreement to the terms and conditions of
entry as stated above. The winners will be notified by mail,
e-mail, and/or telephone on or about September 1st, 2001. The
judges’ decision is final. If a winner fails to respond within
30 days of notification, an alternate winner will be selected.
Prizes are not transferable.
• Direct employees of Circuit Cellar or Atmel,
their affiliates, advertising, promotion, production agencies,
members of their immediate families, or those with whom they
are domiciled are not eligible.
• Entries made on the Internet will be deemed
made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address
submitted at the time of entry; however, a physical signed entry
form is still required for any entry to be eligible. In the
event of a dispute, potential winners may be required to provide
proof that the potential winner is the authorized account holder
of the e-mail address associated with the potentially winning
entry.
• By entering, players release Circuit Cellar
and Atmel, its agents, and hosting service from all liability
with respect to the use of the prizes awarded herein, agree
to be bound by these rules, and consent to the use of their
names and likeness for advertising and/or promotional and/or
marketing purposes without additional compensation. Circuit
Cellar and Atmel are not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate
entry of information including, but not limited to, technical
malfunctions, human error, lost/delayed data transmission, omission,
interruption, deletion, defect, line failures of any telephone
network, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof,
entry materials that have been tampered with, or e-mail or mail-in
entries that are illegible, late, lost, damaged, postage due,
or misdirected. Circuit Cellar and Atmel are not responsible
for any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s
computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading
any material in this contest. Entries that have been tampered
with or altered are void. Circuit Cellar and Atmel reserve the
right to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend this contest
if it becomes technically corrupted or if for any reason the
Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as
planned, including infections by computer virus, bugs, tampering,
unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any
other causes beyond the control of Atmel or Circuit Cellar Inc.,
which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness,
integrity, or proper conduct of this promotion. This contest
shall be governed by the laws of the United States. ©2001 Circuit
Cellar Inc. All rights reserved. ©2001 Atmel Corporation. All
rights reserved.
