The “1st Circuit Design for Smart Cities” competition identified the top five projects that advanced to the final round.

This contest was organised by the Board of Management of the Sai Gon Hi-Tech Park Incubation Centre (Sai Gon Hi-Tech Park),  the HCYU of Ho Chi Minh City, the Department of Information and Communications, the Department of Science and Technology, and Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City, with the support of Techtronic Industries Viet Nam.

These projects were assessed as having creative, novel ideas and were presented rigorously, with a focus on chip design for applications in smart urban areas, demonstrating high applicability and the potential for commercialisation. The projects performed well across three criteria: innovation, efficiency, and the capacity for incubation and development.

The aforementioned projects were evaluated as possessing creative and original views and were presented with a high degree of thoroughness. The emphasis lay on the application of chip design within smart urban settings, showcasing significant practicality and potential for commercialisation. These projects displayed robust performance across three key criteria: innovation, efficiency, and the capacity to nurture and advance concepts.

The winning projects collectively received a prize of over 100 million VND and were granted the opportunity to partake in the IC incubation programmes at Saigon Hi-Tech Park. This contest was launched for the second time to foster IC design projects applied in the fields of green, smart, environmentally friendly, and energy-saving technology.

Participants from VNUHCM-University of Science achieved notable success in the contest. Details are as follows:

– First Prize:

  ♥ Author: Phạm Thế Hùng

  ♥ Topic: A low-noise analogue front-end chip design reconfigurable for applications to receive signals from sensors on 180nm CMOS technology.

– Third Prize:

  ♥ Author: Nguyễn Mai Minh Kha

  ♥ Topic: A high-performance SAR ADC circuit design for the digital conversion of signals from sensors for IoT systems.