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dsPIC30F Design Contest Ofcial Rules
Contest Period
The contest runs from April 26 – September 10, 2004. Contest Kits must
be purchased by June 11, 2004.
The Contest
Microchip will give away nineteen prizes of various values. Contestants
must purchase a dsPIC30F Design Contest Kit and submit a design to
Microchip no later than September 10, 2004 at noon Mountain Standard
Time based on the guidelines described below. The initial submissions
will be evaluated by a panel of Microchip employees with the top twenty
submissions selected as nalists. These nalist submissions will be
judged by a panel composed of three Microchip employees with each
submission receiving a numeric score based on the published judging
criteria described in dsPIC30F Design Contest Kit. Scores will be ranked
from highest to lowest with the ranking used to assign prizes. The total
number of entries is limited to the number of dsPIC30F Design Contest
Kits sold. Odds of winning the grand prize is based on number of entries
with odds equal to or better than 1 in 5000.
Prizes
Contest winners will be ranked by their respective scores with the highest
ranking score receiving rst prize, the second highest score receiving
second prize, etc. In the event of a tie, a random drawing conducted by
Microchip will determine prize assignment order.
The rst place prize is a Harley Davidson® Electra Glide® Motorcycle or
$15,000USD Cash. The second place prize is a 43” Plasma Television
or $7,500USD Cash. The third place prize is a DVD Home Theater
Entertainment System or $3,000USD Cash. The fourth place prize is a
Microchip MPLAB® ICE 4000 In-Circuit Emulator. The fth through ninth
place prize is a Microchip MPLAB C30 C Compiler (one prize awarded to
each of the ve winners for this prize level). The tenth through fourteenth
place prize is a Microchip MPLAB ICD 2 In-Circuit Debugger (one prize
awarded to each of the ve winners for this prize level). The fteenth
through nineteenth place prize is a Momentum Data Systems Digital Filter
Design software tool (one prize awarded to each of the ve winners).
All cash prize choices are in US dollars, and if a cash prize is selected, it
must be awarded in US dollars. Microchip reserves the right to substitute
a similar prize of like value if the contest winner selects a non-cash prize
and lives in a region of the world where the technology is not supported
or if the specic model is no longer available.