Chandigarh University News

Chandigarh University students shine as Champions at ‘Techacks 4.0’ hackathon; clinch ‘Best Hardware Track’ award and a Rs 10,000 cash prize CU students Aman and Karan emerge winners of ‘Techacks 4.0’ for developing innovative RISC-V Core and Computer Vision Model   In a remarkable display of skill and innovation, two Chandigarh University (CU) students of Electronics and Communications have secured the championship title at the prestigious ‘Techacks 4.0’ – a 36-hour in-person hackathon. The students have been awarded with the ‘Best Hardware Track’ award along with a substantial cash prize of Rs 10,000. During the hackathon, CU students – Aman Kumar Singh and Karan Gajanan Mali – showcased their expertise by creating a Single Cycle 32-bit reduced integer instruction set based RISC-V core. For adding novelty to the design, they incorporated a computer vision ML model (CNN) using the opensource library hls4ml, which would be interfaced with the CPU core for edge computing a...