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COM PETITION

Results of our Flash

Design Competition

chess computer is the clear winner

By Harry Baggen

The projects received in response to the Flash Design Competition we

ran in the Summer Circuits 2002 issue were generally of a very high level.

What’s more, nearly all projects were extensively documented. The

result: much deliberation among the Jury members, but one clear winner:

a chess computer designed by Pedram Azad and Tilo Gockel.

The Winners

First Prize: £300 in cash (approx.

€

500)

Chess computer ‘Deep Evelyn’ by Pedram Azad and Tilo Gockel (Germany)

100)

Programmable Switching Clock , by Wilfried Wätzig (Germany)

LED Message Board , also by Wilfried Wätzig (Germany)

Realtime Clock with DCF Synchronisation , by Mark de Martelaar (Belgium)

RGB generator/converter , by Alexander Steiger (Germany)

DALFlash Extension Card , by Alain Desalle (Belgium)

Consolation Prizes: Elektor vouchers worth £60 (approx.

€

The competition entries proved

beyond doubt that Elektor Electron-

ics readers are downright power

users of the 89S8252 Flash Micro

Board published in the December

2001 issue. The proof was in the

results of our Flash Design Competi-

tion which did not fail to attract a

number of well-designed circuits and

excellent software. Most participants

managed (some in the nick of time) to

include extensive descriptions and

sometimes even photographs of their

projects, all clearly aiming to impress

the Jury and provide as much infor-

mation as possible on the project.

The Jury consisted of the editors

of the four (main) language editions

in which Elektor is produced (Dutch,

French, English and German), to

which was added the head of our in-

house design department. After all,

an international competition requires

an international Jury!

Having scrutinized the competition

entries and added up the individual

scores given to each project by the

Jury menbers, it became evident that

the Jury was unanimous in awarding

the First Prize to Pedram Azad and

Tilo Gockel of Germany for their Chess

Computer design called Deep Evelyn.

This computer comprises a Flash

board, an LCD, a keyboard and soft-

ware turning it all into a powerful

chess computer. Remarkably, all soft-

ware is contained in the microcon-

troller. At this point we should hasten

to add that the designers replaced the original

89S8252 micro with the pin-compatible 89S53

which has more memory (12 kBytes). This was

deemed acceptable by the Jury because the

hardware change does not require ‘major

surgery’ on the Flash board.

We congratulate the winners with their

prize of £300 (approx.

€

500) in cash and will

not fail to prepare the chess computer design

for publication in a future issue of Elektor

Electronics . Unfortunately none of the entries

received from readers of the English edition

of Elektor made it into the prize region.

Besides the chess computer, several other

competition entries were found worthy of

publication, so watch the next six or so issues

of this magazine for more designs based on

the highly popular Flash Micro Board!

(035036-1)

1/2003

Elektor Electronics

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