Launch of 'Invent a Chip 2020'Good ideas wanted
"Who has the best idea for a microchip?" is the task for the 'Invent a Chip' school competition initiated by the VDE and BMBF for the 19th time. Young talents who enjoy technology, science and mathematics are in demand.
Gesa Dünnweber won first place, with prize money of 3,000 euros, for her project "Random Generation". She creates random numbers directly on a self-designed microchip. They are used, for example, for secure encryption with passwords. She demonstrates the generated numbers on the computer as colored squares. Unwanted regularities are thus easily recognizable. "I also created a "lottery" on the microchip, in which several numbers are typed and the number of correctly typed numbers is displayed by my generator after the "lottery draw"," says the prizewinner, explaining her model.