Recently, the National Finals of the 9th National College Student IC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held in Lingang, Shanghai. NEU won one First Prize and two Second Prizes in the National Finals of this competition, and for the first time, it was awarded the "Enterprise Grand Prize", marking a historical breakthrough.
This competition was hosted by the Talent Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and organized by the Shanghai Lingang New Engineering Industry-Education Integration Research Institute. It attracted over 7,400 teams from 517 universities across the country to sign up for the competition. After the selection process in seven sub-regions, a total of 662 teams from 161 universities, including Tsinghua University, Peking University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advanced to the national finals. The team composed of Yu Zhuoying and Jiang Xingyuan, guided by Feng Zhiwei, a teacher from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at NEU won the First Prize at the national level and simultaneously received the "Enterprise Grand Prize" in the Zeng Yihui Innovation Cup Competition. The team completed the circuit design of a 555 timer using a 0.18μm process manufacturing process, manually tested the functions of the 555 chip, and automatically tested the functions of the 555 chip using labview programming in the National Finals.
It is reported that the National College Student IC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition is the largest university competition in the field of integrated circuits in China. It is the only professional integrated circuit competition listed in the National University Competition List of the China Association of Higher Education. The competition aims to implement the important deployment of the national development strategy for the integrated circuit industry and serve the overall development of China's integrated circuit industry, innovate the talent cultivation model for the integrated circuit industry and cultivate a large number of outstanding reserve talents for the integrated circuit industry.
