The period of this contest is from January 19th, 2004 to September 11th, 2004 and the finals will be announced at SBCCI 2004 Congress in Porto de Galinhas, PE, Brazil.

Undergraduate and Graduate students of Brazilian Universities and Colleges in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, and related fields are eligible to enroll to participate in the design contest. Individual students or teams consisting of a maximum of four students can propose the designs of their choice.Students are eligible to be on a team if they are full-time students enrolled in the current academic school year and are not currently employed as full-time engineers. Teams registered to participate in the contest may only receive guidance from the mentor, and must not receive outside assistance from industry or other professionals when creating the project. Only one representative from each of the top five teams may attend the conference to present and demonstrate the completed design.A faculty member from the University who serves as a mentor may select up to three teams per department to represent the University if multiple teams whish to participate in the contest. The role of the mentor is as follows:
a. Provide guidance and advice to the team, and not service as a technical resource
b. Submit the registration form on behalf of the team
c. Register to obtain the required resources for the students to complete the project
d. Certifies on the deliverables that the team members are the only ones who actually worked on the design and implementation of the project
The designs need to be implemented with Xilinx software and any of the specified optional Xilinx Partner software and using the supplied Digilent development kit.The registrations submitted to xupcontest@xilinx.com will be accepted until April 30th and must contain the following information. The organization will confirm the acceptance by email until 2 weeks after the registration.
a. University and Department/Laboratory name
b. Mentor (Professor) contact information
c. Team members name and contact information
d. Design information
i. Title
ii. Description (500 words maximum) 
e. List of requirement
i. Software
ii. Hardware 
If your registration is accepted the participants must deliver the following items until June 30th:
a. Source code
i. ISE (Schematic, HDL)
ii. EDK (assembly, C/C++ program, C/C++ drivers, libraries, linker files, memory map and other associated files)
iii. System Generator (.m, .mdl and other associated files)
b. Constraints file (.ucf) containing pinouts, location and timing.
c. Verification files for Software and Hardware (HDL testbench, ModelSim scripts, C/C++ test files)
d. Reports (.syr, .bld, .mrp and .par)
i. One with default Synthesis and Implementation options
ii. One with the final Synthesis and Implementation options
e. Download file (.bit)
f. Documentation
i. Design overview (1000 words maximum)
ii. Block diagram (1 page - letter size)
iii. Detailed description
iv. Getting started (procedure for setting up system)
v. Future ideas or application examples must be in a separated section
1. A Judging Committee will select five finalists on August 1st and they will present their designs at SBCCI 2004. Xilinx will pay the transportation and accommodation for one of each finalist teams for SBCCI 2004. The finalists will be announced in the XUP and SBCCI 2004 web sites.
During the SBCCI 2004, the designs will be shown in Poster Session, 10 minutes PowerPoint Presentation Session and available for demonstration of the design in hardware by the finalists.The winners will be decided through a voting during the SBCCI 2004. A special group of professors will have 2/3 of decision and the votes of the SBCCI participants will have 1/3.Prizes for the team:
a. First Place
i. 1 Xilinx ISE Foundation software
ii. 1 Digilent University board
iii. R$ 2000,00
b. Second Place
i. 1 Xilinx ISE Foundation software
ii. 1 Digilent University board
iii. R$ 1000,00
c. Third to Fifth Place
i. 1 Xilinx ISE Foundation software
ii. 1 Digilent University board
Supplied Xilinx software (donation):
a. ISE Foundation
b. EDK (Embedded Development Kit) (if needed in the design)
c. System Generator (if needed in the design)
d. ChipScope Pro (if needed in the design)
Optional Xilinx and Partners software (not donated):
a. ModelSim XE
b. ModelSim - Mentor Graphics
c. DK1 - Celoxica
d. Synplify-Pro - Synplicity
e. Matlab/Simulink + ToolBoxes - Mathworks
Development Board (donation):
a. Digilent Spartan-IIE mother board: D2E
b. Digilent peripheral board: DIO2
Other boards/circuits: the design can use extra boards/circuits like actuators, sensors, memories, connectors, PC, Handhelds and discrete components connected to the Digilent development board. The use of other programmable logic devices, microcontrollers, microprocessors, DSP devices, ASSPs and ASICs is forbidden.The organization committee reserves the right of deny or disqualify a design due to the below reasons. If the design is denied before the end of registration period, the team will be advised and other design can be registered.
a. Strong resemblance to commercially available systems.
b. Too simple design.
c. Final implementation of a current development dissertation or thesis.
d. The design doesn't work as described in the documentation.
e. More than 3 registrations per Department/Laboratory.
Judging criteria
a. Innovation: how innovative is the design compared to the current circuits
b. Creativity: how creative is the solution of the design and/or to make it simple
c. Complexity: how complexity is the design
d. Performance: how fast is the internal frequency compared to the industry standards
e. Optimization: how much area you can reduce from standard Synthesis and Implementation options to final design
Additional info and exception cases will be analyzed and decided by the organization committee.All the documentation must be in English and all deliverables should be zipped and sent to xupcontest@xilinx.com.Participating of this contest is an agreement of accepting all rules and permits Xilinx to explore all designs and information (text, codes, images, etc.) in press channels. The usage and the authority of the designs are guaranteed to the authors.