Rakesh Kumar Reddy (IEC2013045), Nikhil Sowrya (IEC2013063) and Adithya Sasha Sai (IEC2013066) of BTech (ECE)-VII Sem have received 1st position all over India in prestigious Mentor Graphics University Design Contest-2016. The awards ceremony will held on Jan 12th, 2017 in Bangalore and the students will be receiving 1.5 Lakhs prize money. Mentor Graphics University Design Contest was aimed at providing an opportunity for engineering students from different technology streams to participate in the contest and demonstrate their technical capabilities, problem solving, project management and design skills in a contest against their peers. The problem statement was to efficiently design tracer data compressor in FPGA using ModelSim.