The IEEE Computer Society is presenting the 2011 Simulator Design competition for students worldwide with a top prize of 8,000 USD and a second place prize of 2,000 USD. Student teams will be invited to design a CPU simulator, a program used in many architecture courses to illustrate how computers work.

The competition requires that students have taken a course in architecture and have both programming and software engineering skills. Student teams will submit both a report and a working program at the end of the competition.

Who can compete?
The competition is open to student members of the IEEE Computer Society organized into teams consisting of three to five students enrolled at the same institution of higher learning.

Current IEEE student members can add Computer Society student membership (8 USD in the U.S. and Canada and 13 USD in the rest of the world) at:
http://www.computer.org/addcsmembership
Non-member students can join both IEEE and IEEE Computer Society (40 USD) at:   http://www.computer.org/studentoffer

As part of their member benefits, all student members receive access to the Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL).
The competition is conducted through online submission of reports and simulators to the panel of international judges (chosen by the IEEE Computer Society).

For more Information visit: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/competition