The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2009
EDN’s editors offer up their annual list of the year's 100 most significant amplifiers, CPUs, ICs, LEDs, microcontrollers, vector network analyzers, and more.
By Staff -- EDN, December 15, 2009
It’s back, and it’s hot. Here is EDN’s list of the products and technologies that in 2009 heated up the electronics world and grabbed the attention of our editors and our readers. You’ll find amplifiers, CPUs, ICs, LEDs, microcontrollers, vector network analyzers, and more.
Click each product's name to link to EDN's original coverage. For continuous new-product coverage, check out www.edn.com/productfeed.
Analog ICs
Analog Devices
AD9269 80M-sample/sec pipeline ADC
Analog Devices
ADA4627 JFET op amp
Analog Devices
ADuM4160 bidirectional USB isolator
Linear Technology Corp
LT3092 two-terminal current source
Maxim Integrated Products
MAX11810 touchscreen-interface chip
Microchip Technology
MCP651/2/5 offset-voltage-corrected operational amplifier
National Semiconductor
ADC16DV160 ADC
Applied Systems
Altium
NanoBoard 3000
Lantronix
IPv6-certified SpiderDuo KVM-over-IP product
MEN Micro
ESMexpress system on module
WinSystems
Pico-ITXe SBC
ZeroG Wireless
Wi-Fi kits for PIC
Communications and Networking
Freescale Semiconductor
MPC8569E communications processor
Fujitsu
MB86L01A transceiver chip
Gigle Semiconductor
GGL541 powerline-networking IC
additional coverage
Intellon (now Atheros)
INT6400 powerline-networking IC
PMC Sierra
HyPHY 20G
Solarflare
SFL 902x
Components
Bergquist
Bond Ply 450 thermal-interface material
Bourns
Hot-dipped-tin ROHS-compliant cermet-wire-terminal trimming potentiometers
Cool Innovations
Flared-pin-fin heat sinks
Epson Toyocom
EG-4101/4121CA SAW resonator
Fairchild Semiconductor
Luminus
PhlatLight LED PT-39 chip set
Philips Lumileds
Luxeon Rebel HB LEDs
Phoenix Company of Chicago
Nonmagnetic-connector family
Qualcomm
Color IMOD display
SMSC
CAP10xx capacitive sensors
STMicroelectronics
LIS302DLH digital MEMS accelerometer
Texas Instruments
Picoprojector development kit
DSPs
Ceva
Ceva-XC DSP core
Tensilica
ConnX D2 DSP
Texas Instruments
TMS320C6472 DSP
Texas Instruments
TMS320C6743 fixed/floating-point DSP
EDA
Agilent Technologies
ADS signal-integrity channel simulator
Ansys
Ansoft SIwave Version 4.0
Berkeley Design Automation
AFS Nano simulator
Cadence Design Systems
Virtuoso APS circuit simulator
Jasper
Active Design with Behavioral Indexing
Mentor Graphics
Tessent Yield Insight tool
OneSpin
360MV
Synopsys
Custom Designer 2009.06
Synopsys
Synphony
Synopsys
Yield Explorer
Graphics/Graphics-Interface ICs
IDT
VMM 1300 PanelPort ViewXpand chip
Nvidia
Ion core-logic chip set
additional coverage
additional coverage
Silicon Image
HDMI Version 1.4 chips
Memory and Storage
Agiga Tech
AgigaRAM technology
IM Flash Technologies
3-bit-per-cell MLC NAND flash
Western Digital
1-Tbyte, 2.5-in. and 2-Tbyte, 3.5-in. hard-disk drives
additional coverage
Microcontrollers and Processors
Atmel
AT91CAP7L microcontroller
Atmel
mXT224 maXTouch touchscreen controller
Cypress Semiconductor
PSoc 3 and PSoc 5 programmable system-on-chip architectures
Energy Micro
EFM32G Gecko microcontroller
Microchip
PIC32 Connectivity microcontrollers
Samsung Electronics and Intrinsity
Hummingbird and Fast14 domino logic
Power
austriamicrosystems
AS1302 charge-pump dc/dc boost converter
Cissoid
Magma PWM-controller chip
EaglePicher
Lithium-CFX (carbon-monofluoride) battery chemistry
Enpirion
EN5337QI 5MHz, 3A synchronous buck dc/dc converter
Exar Corp
XRP7704 and XRP7740 quad-PWM-controller chips
Fairchild Semiconductor
FAN9612 PFC controller
Freescale Semiconductor
MCF51EM microcontrollers
International Rectifier
IR3725 input-power-monitoring IC
Linear Technology Corp
LTC2978 monitoring-and-control chip
Maxim Integrated Products
MAX16064 monitoring-and-control chip
Maxim Integrated Products
MAXQ3108/DS8102 Polyphase Energy Meter chip set
Microchip Technology
dsPIC33F ac/dc reference design
Teridian Semiconductor
78M6612 power- and energy-measurement chip
Texas Instruments
MSP430F471xx ultralow-power microcontrollers
Processors and Tools
AMD
Athlon II CPU
AMD
Phenom II CPU
additional coverage
AMD
Shanghai and Istanbul CPUs
additional coverage
Intel
Atom N280 CPU
additional coverage
Intel
Core i5 CPU
Intel
Nehalem EP and EX CPUs
Nvidia
Tegra CPU
Programmable ICs
Actel
ProASIC3 family
Altera
Cyclone3 LS
Lattice Semiconductor
ECP3 family
Xilinx
Virtex 6
RF
Linear Technology Corp
LTC5541 downconverting mixer
Texas Instruments
ADS5400 12-bit, 1G-sample/sec ADC
Semiconductor Processes and IP
Akya
ART2 reconfigurable-logic technology
IBM
Power7 architecture
ON Semiconductor
180-nm ASIC process
Snowbush Division of Gennum
PCI Generation 3 controller IP
Synopsys
DesignWare miniPower
Software
Audio Precision
APx500 Version 2.4 software
DDC-I
DEOS RTOS
Mentor Graphics
FloEFD electronics-cooling-simulation software
National Instruments
LabView 2009 graphical-system-design software platform
National Semiconductor
Webench Visualizer
Verigy
Triage and YieldVision yield-learning tools
Test and Measurement
Agilent Technologies
J-BERT N4903B jitter-tolerance tester
Anritsu
VectorStar 110-GHz vector network analyzer
Data Translation
Voltpoint instrument for lithium-ion cell-by-cell measurement
LeCroy
Xi-A Series 400-MHz to 2-GHz WaveRunner digital oscilloscopes
Rohde & Schwarz
CMW500 6-GHz wideband-radio-test system
Tektronix
RSA6120A 20-GHz spectrum analyzer
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Love the idea, I tried them ,pretty cool!
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iron doors - 2011-11-7 00:08:00 PDT -
I strongly disagree with the nominations in the 'memory' category. It is an egregious mistake to leave out the innovations in DDR3 and graphics-DDR5 (GDDR5). I'm astonished that the entire DRAM category was passed over. The work they (DRAM designers) do is not as easy as you might think - the continual struggle to build smaller die while at the same time increasing clock frequencies and reliability is an impressive accomplishment. Don't overlook the contributions that DRAM has made to the pervasiveness of PCs and consumer appliances - those folks are the unsung heroes of our tech revolution.
phileasfogg - 2010-6-1 17:30:00 PST
