Under the guidance of Taiwan’s Department of Education, Holtek’s third MCU Innovation Competition this year took place on 17th November at the Mingchi University of Technology in Taipei County. Participating in the event were over 100 teams from various Taiwan academic institutions, with their entries subdivided into the categories of general control, toys, instrumentation, household appliance control and an additional category for high school participants. With a combined theme of developing creativity and demonstrating practicality, participating students were able to practically implement ideas from their educational theoretical foundation.
At the event Holtek’s president Gordon Gau firmly stated that Holtek wishes to display its commitment to becoming a world class microcontroller professional provider, and in this context recent years have seen the company focus its design efforts in the area of microcontroller development. Whether in terms of complexity or range expansion, Holtek has clearly demonstrated this commitment though the continuous release of numerous microcontroller devices to closely match the needs of the customer and the market’s new microcontroller based products. Taking a look at this year’s new products, the release of Flash Type microcontrollers can be said to be a new milestone in the history of Holtek Semiconductor. These devices not only allow new application developments to be directly upgraded, but also with regard to European and US market application development trends, is a type of device no major MCU developer can afford not to have within their product range. Other new devices included C/R-F touch sensor solutions, CCTV chipsets, extremely low power TinyPowerTM A/D type devices in addition to fingerprint recognition devices etc. All devices are aimed at marketable high end products and in line with the demands of customers.
The event organiser, the Mingchi University of Technology, as an innovative educational establishment, has continuously striven to encourage creativity and to provide a more refined standard of education. With its broader outlook, life skills education and its domestic and overseas practical vocational education, the school has the objectives of hoping to foster an attitude of diligency and honesty and to provide graduate students with competitive advantages. Because of its excellent school achievements and as a school with excellent traditions and one which provides effectiveness in its educational programs, the previous two years have seen it obtain an educational excellence award from the Department of Education, financially amounting to a sum of 125 million Taiwan Dollars - the largest average per student for the whole of Taiwan. This year has seen it further emphasise importance on its academic/industry co-operation as an important development objective. Additionally in 2006 the school had the distinction of winning a first place award in the "industry/academic funding and effectiveness” category, in an assessment by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan for private technical institutes. In the future the school hopes that with even closer industry co-operation to continue to improve all items of its research in terms of both quantity and quality, and to become the first choice as an industry/academic partner.
Participants in this competition originated from a large range of academic institutions all over the island and were subdivided into five groups. Each group presented many excellent innovative solutions, and from each group the judging panel had to select the three winners as well as an excellence award, for which a total prize money of 1 million Taiwan Dollars was provided. This year’s activity stimulated much positive reaction from many academic institutions. Participating students, from their idea formation, through initial proposal submission, development prototype, paper submission and final product completion, were able to obtain fully inclusive training, and from this enable students to gain skills in hardware, software and system development. In this way this activity was able to implement practical skills as an educational objective. At the same time it is hoped that this activity was also able to implement the educational objective of encouraging the formation of excellent technical personnel for the future benefit of industry. Such activities will certainly lead to an enhancement of the country’s future competitive ability.
Under the guidance of Taiwan’s Department of Education, Holtek’s third MCU Innovation Competition this year took place on 17th November at the Mingchi University of Technology in Taipei County. Participating in the event were over 100 teams from various Taiwan academic institutions, with their entries subdivided into the categories of general control, toys, instrumentation, household appliance control and an additional category for high school participants. With a combined theme of developing creativity and demonstrating practicality, participating students were able to practically implement ideas from their educational theoretical foundation.
Gau firmly stated that Holtek wishes to display its commitment to becoming a world class microcontroller professional provider, and in this context recent years have seen the company focus its design efforts in the area of microcontroller development. Whether in terms of complexity or range expansion, Holtek has clearly demonstrated this commitment though the continuous release of numerous microcontroller devices to closely match the needs of the customer and the market’s new microcontroller based products. Taking a look at this year’s new products, the release of Flash Type microcontrollers can be said to be a new milestone in the history of Holtek Semiconductor. These devices not only allow new application developments to be directly upgraded, but also with regard to European and US market application development trends, is a type of device no major MCU developer can afford not to have within their product range. Other new devices included C/R-F touch sensor solutions, CCTV chipsets, extremely low power TinyPowerTM A/D type devices in addition to fingerprint recognition devices etc. All devices are aimed at marketable high end products and in line with the demands of customers.
The event organiser, the Mingchi University of Technology, as an innovative educational establishment, has continuously striven to encourage creativity and to provide a more refined standard of education. With its broader outlook, life skills education and its domestic and overseas practical vocational education, the school has the objectives of hoping to foster an attitude of diligency and honesty and to provide graduate students with competitive advantages. Because of its excellent school achievements and as a school with excellent traditions and one which provides effectiveness in its educational programs, the previous two years have seen it obtain an educational excellence award from the Department of Education, financially amounting to a sum of 125 million Taiwan Dollars - the largest average per student for the whole of Taiwan. This year has seen it further emphasise importance on its academic/industry co-operation as an important development objective. Additionally in 2006 the school had the distinction of winning a first place award in the "industry/academic funding and effectiveness” category, in an assessment by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan for private technical institutes. In the future the school hopes that with even closer industry co-operation to continue to improve all items of its research in terms of both quantity and quality, and to become the first choice as an industry/academic partner.
Participants in this competition originated from a large range of academic institutions all over the island and were subdivided into five groups. Each group presented many excellent innovative solutions, and from each group the judging panel had to select the three winners as well as an excellence award, for which a total prize money of 1 million Taiwan Dollars was provided. This year’s activity stimulated much positive reaction from many academic institutions. Participating students, from their idea formation, through initial proposal submission, development prototype, paper submission and final product completion, were able to obtain fully inclusive training, and from this enable students to gain skills in hardware, software and system development. In this way this activity was able to implement practical skills as an educational objective. At the same time it is hoped that this activity was also able to implement the educational objective of encouraging the formation of excellent technical personnel for the future benefit of industry. Such activities will certainly lead to an enhancement of the country’s future competitive ability.
