Kick-off for 'Invent a Chip 2019'Innovative microchip ideas wanted
Under the motto "DigiTALENTE", the VDE and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research are launching the annual nationwide student competition 'Invent a Chip'. As of now, young people can once again submit their chip ideas.
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.