Wins Samsung Electronics Corporate Special Award at the 25th Korea Semiconductor Design Competition

The research team from the Next-Generation Integrated Circuit and System Design Laboratory (NICS Design Lab), led by Professor Joo-Hyung Chae from the Department of Electronic Communication Engineering, with members Chan-Heum Han (integrated master's and doctoral program) and Ki-Soo Lee (master's program), received the Samsung Electronics Corporate Special Award at the 25th Korea Semiconductor Design Competition.

The Korea Semiconductor Design Competition is a specialized competition in semiconductor design, jointly organized by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association. It aims to cultivate design skills among university and graduate students in semiconductor design and to discover creative ideas. This year, a total of 20 projects were selected for their excellence in design.

The research team proposed a new encoding method to reduce power consumption in memory interfaces for high-performance computing systems and presented the design and verification results. This demonstrated that the idea can be applied to next-generation memory interfaces to improve their power performance. The students on the research team plan to further develop this idea into advanced research, contributing to the growth of the domestic semiconductor industry.