sponsorship

·       Items provided through SDRF AC Sponsors will be standard “Commercial-Off-The-Shelf” products, or advanced “beta” products, and may include:

o   Integrated Circuits, including RF/IF Devices, signal processing devices, A/D Converters, D/A Converters, etc.

o   RF, IF, and Baseband processing boards or sub-assemblies

o   Integrated development environments and tools

o   Firmware development tools

o   Modeling tools

o   documentation

·       Sponsors may provide the teams training, but may not help them in developing the overall solution

·       Sponsors will submit a list of items they wish to provide to the SDR Forum Academic Challenge in advance of the Phase 1 kick-off including quantity , availability date, licenses, and return requirements. The list will be reviewed by the SDRF AC Committee, A list outlining all of the accepted items from sponsors will be provided to the teams at the start of each Phase 1 of the challenge.

·       Items provided by sponsors will remain the property of the sponsor, and unless otherwise stated by the sponsor, shall be returned to the sponsor upon completion of the challenge

·       Sponsors get

o   Their logo on the Academic Challenge web site, and on all associated literature and promotional events.

·       Levels of sponsorship:

o   Headline sponsor – these sponsorships are individually negotiated

o   Platinum sponsor provides a $35 K Sponsorship, gets 6 attendees at the SDRF conference, gets to provide 6 judges to participate in the challenge award process, gets premium PR opportunities

o   Gold sponsor provides a $15 K sponsorship, gets 3 attendees at the SDRF conference,  gets to provide 3 judges to participate in the award process

o   Silver sponsor provides a $5K sponsorship, gets 1 attendee at the conference, gets to provide 1 judge to participate in the award process

o   Bronze sponsors may provide funding, products, or scholarships to attend SDRF sponsored activities totaling $1K or more in value of goods and services.

o   Sponsors who provide inkind materials get to provide training sessions at the SDR Forum fall conference describing how to use their components, tools, or products.

Sponsor Contributions