Welcome to the NXP LPC1100 Design Challenge

The objective of this half-year, three-phase Design Challenge is to foster a social community where contestants can build, test, and display their designs, based on the NXP’s Cortex-M0 based LPC1100 and the LPCXpresso developer kit, to the community. A set of NXP Challenge judges, as well their Community Member peers, will Rate and Vote for one winner during each Phase. The contestant that makes it through the three phases and is voted the 2010 NXP LPC1100 Design Challenge's Grand Prize will win $3,000 in Apple® gift cards!!!

Registered Community Members can rate each design according to the design value criteria. Registered members are eligible for prizes based on their participation and activity within the community. To read complete details for prizes and contest rules and regulations, click here.

The approximate retail price of prizes to community members and contestants is $10,000!

Once you sign up as a community member, you can change to a contestant by simply filling in your personal page and submitting a valid design! Contestants that do not make it to the next stage, are automatically considered members and can rate and vote for other contestants and qualify for member prizes based on their continued participation and activity within the community.

Sign Up as a Community Member starting February 1.

Challenge Overview

The NXP LPC1100 Design Challenge is organized into three phases: Conceptual Design, Hardware Design and Final Prototype. Each phase has new requirements for contestants, and the judges and community members will determine the winners of each phase. Winners of each phase earn valuable Apple® Gift Cards.

(1) Phase One: Conceptual Design Phase – Each Contestant will develop a conceptual design, including an abstract, title, and block diagram, and upload these elements of the design to the Contest Website. Once contestants have submitted a valid entry, contestants will receive a FREE LPCXpresso developer kit. The Conceptual Design Phase is open to new Contestants from February 1, 2010 (the “Start Date”) until frozen on March 31, 2010 at 8 a.m. EDT (the “Entry Deadline”). If all required elements are not submitted before the frozen time, contestant will be disqualified. One contestant from this Phase will be chosen as Most Original, by the Judges, with Rating input from the “Members” of the Contest Website and announced on or about April 7, 2010. All remaining contestants are still eligible to proceed to the next phase.

(2) Phase Two: Hardware Design Phase –Contestants from the Conceptual Design Phase will enter the Hardware Design Phase. During the Hardware Design Phase, each Contestant will develop the hardware component of the Contestant’s design in prototype form, and provide a video of the working prototype. Along with the video, each contestant will also provide an accompanying bill-of-materials, schematics, and other design related material specified by the Sponsors, all which must be uploaded by the Contestants to the Contest Website before the entries are frozen on June 28, 2010 at 8 a.m. EDT. If all required elements are not submitted before the frozen time, contestant will be disqualified. Two contestants from this Phase will be chosen as Best Video, by the Judges, with Rating input from the “Members” of the Contest Website and announced on or about July 5, 2010. There will be eight other contestants selected, still eligible to proceed to the next phase.

(3) Phase Three: Final Prototype Phase –Ten contestants from the Hardware Design Phase will enter the Final Prototype Phase. During this last Phase, each Contestant will polish his or her design and ship the final working prototype to the NXP Semiconductors, Attn: Amit Bhojraj, 1109 McKay Drive, M/S 76, SJ-M4 San Jose, CA 95131 (shipping costs and materials will be provided by NXP). Along with the prototype, each contestant must submit a 2-page brief, with instructions on how to operate the design, and all related software projects and other relevant material, on or before all entries are frozen on August 2, 2010 at 8 a.m. EDT until August 15, 2010 at 8 a.m. EDT. The Challenge is not responsible for lost of broken prototypes. A maximum of 5 Finalists will be determined. Judges with input from a vote of the Members in the manner described on the Contest Website, will announce the winners of the Grand Prize and Second Prize, as well as up to three Honorable Mentions on August 16, 2010.