Freescale announced the five finalists invited to compete in the company’s first green engineering design contest. The Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Design Challenge Europe finalists will strive to develop the next generation of sustainable embedded systems based on Freescale’s energy-efficient technologies and easy-to-design-with development tools. The company selected five finalists from a field of more than 200 participants made up of embedded systems developers and engineering students representing Europe. Each of the five finalists will receive a $1,000 (USD) award, a professional CodeWarrior development platform and a video camera to capture their design building experience.
Freescale invites these finalists to develop prototypes of their designs to be submitted to an expert panel for final judging at FTF Europe, October 7. Other International FTF Design Challenges have opened over the past several months. Freescale will award more finalists’ prizes and a first-place winner in each regional design challenge. In addition to the five first-place winners receiving $10,000, they will be invited to move on to the Grand FTF Design Challenge where they can vie for an additional $50,000 in prizes and a ticket to the FTF 2009 of his or her choice.
Top Five Finalists
- ZPP (Zero Power Platform) by Stefan Heinbockel from Siemens AG
- An environmentally friendly irrigation system by Erol Aran from InI Bilisim Ltd.
- Kinetic energy recovery system for vehicles by Chenghan Li from Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
- Smart Heating System by Jingning Zhang from Telecom Bretagne
- Buy Buy Standby from Carlos Cossio by ApliSoft
The finalists will submit their completed prototypes by the September 1, 2008 deadline. Each finalist will receive a cash prize, complimentary travel and accommodations in addition to free admission to the Freescale Technology Forum where attendees will vote on the winning prototype. The company will announce the FTF Design Challenge Europe first place winner who will receive $10,000, second place winner who will receive $5,000 and third place winner will receive $2,000.
