EDN’s 2008 Innovation Award finalists: Make your voice heard
You pick the winners in our 19th annual program honoring engineering excellence.
By Staff -- EDN, February 5, 2009
Yes, you can! The 2008 presidential election may be just a distant memory, but another critical choice requires your voice. Our editors have named the finalists for EDN’s 2008 Innovation Awards. On these pages, you’ll find a list of the finalists in several product and technology categories as well as Innovator of the Year and Best Contributed Article.
Review complete write-ups of the finalists and vote at www.edn.com/innovation. Voting begins Feb 2 and continues through Feb 27.
Your votes determine the Innovation Award winners, who will be honored along with all of the finalists at a reception on Monday, March 30, in San Jose, CA. EDN readers are invited to attend; you can also find event and ticket information at www.edn.com/innovation.
| 2008 Innovator of the Year |
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Altera Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team Glenn Woppman, president and chief executive officer, Asset InterTech Octasic Opus architecture design team SiGe Semiconductor SE2593A front-end module design team |
| Best Contributed Article of 2008 |
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USB battery-charger designs meet new industry standards, Takashi Kanamori and George Paparrizos, Summit Microelectronics, Feb 21, 2008. Boost efficiency for low-cost flyback converters, John Betten and Brian King, Texas Instruments, April 2, 2008. Designing a short-range RF link into a consumer-electronics product, Eric Welch, Keyspan, July 8, 2008. High-voltage, low-noise dc/dc converters, Jim Williams, Linear Technology Corp, Aug 7, 2008. Lithium-ion-battery-charging IC powered by charge-transfer, control innovations, Randy Torrance, Chipworks, Oct 1, 2008. |
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Analog ICs
AD9272 eight-channel ultrasound receiver, Analog Devices CLC1001 ultralow-noise amplifier, Cadeka Microcircuits CS42L55 portable audio codec, Cirrus Logic LMV1088 analog dual-input-microphone-array amplifier, National Semiconductor ADCs and DACs ADC12EU050 12-bit, octal ADC, National Semiconductor DAC988118-bit DAC, Texas Instruments MAX5661 single 16-bit DAC, Maxim Integrated Products SAM1610/05/00 12-bit ADCs, Samplify Systems RFICs 0150SC-1250M and 0405SC-1000M RF-power transistors, Microsemi HVV1011-300 RF-power transistor, HVVi Semiconductors VMMK-2x03 RF amplifiers, Avago Technologies ASSPs CX20562 USB speakers on a chip, Conexant Snapdragon platform with custom CPU, Qualcomm T1000 single-chip content-inspection processor, LSI Logic Z-Accel CC2480 2.4-GHz ZigBee wireless-network processor, Texas Instruments Logic and Interface ICs 26 series SQI (serial quad I/O), SST ActiveConnect GN8502 multimedia-connectivity solution, Gennum SN5000A hybrid two-in-one tuner module, Xceive Memory NANDrive family, SST SiliconDrive II Blade SSD, SiliconSystems X-25E Extreme SATA SSD, Intel XDR2 memory architecture, Rambus Programmable logic and fast-turnaround ASICs Nextreme-2 45-nm ASICs, eASIC Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA, Altera Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs, Xilinx EDA: Design Analysis Incisive Palladium DPA (dynamic-power analysis), Cadence Design Systems JasperGold formal-verification tool, Jasper Design Automation Olympus-SOC timing analyzer, Mentor Graphics PowerArtist RTL tool, Sequence Design EDA: Design Creation and IP C-to-silicon compiler, Cadence Design Systems Intelli DDR3 memory interface, Virage Logic PowerOpt RTL tool, ChipVision Design Systems Zroute chip-level router with integral DFM analysis, Synopsys EDA: PCB, FPGA, and Mixed-Signal/RF ICs Integrated Software Environment (ISE) 10.1, Xilinx RF Design Solution, Mentor Graphics and Agilent Technologies Simics Hybrid Simulation solution, Virtutech Titan platform, Magma Design Automation EDA: System-level synthesis Matlab/Simulink synthesis technology, Altera Simscape, The MathWorks Webench power designer, National Semiconductor Webench sensor designer, National Semiconductor Embedded-System Technologies Mirasol displays, Qualcomm PowerBlock 50 computer, Mercury Computer Systems Single-Board RIO, National Instruments USB1032 StackableUSB host microcontroller, MicroSys Microcontrollers PIC32 32-bit microcontroller, Microchip Technology Piccolo microcontrollers, Texas Instruments R32C/111 series microcontrollers, Renesas Technology Xmega microcontrollers, Atmel Microprocessors EP80579 integrated processor, Intel LPC3130 ARM9 microcontroller, NXP Semiconductors MIPS32 1004K coherent-processing system, MIPS Technologies OMAP35x application processor, Texas Instruments Passive Components and Sensors ADXL001 iMEMS shock and vibration sensor, Analog Devices LX1973B wide-dynamic-range light sensor, Microsemi MPR03x proximity-sensor controllers, Freescale Semiconductor OLED SmartSwitch, NKK Switches Battery ICs bq27500 system-side impedance-track battery-fuel-gauge IC, Texas Instruments LTC6802 battery-stack monitor, Linear Technology MC3467x Li-ion-battery-charger ICs, Freescale Semiconductor Power-controller ICs ADP1043 digital-power controller, Analog Devices PX3560 digital multiphase controller, Primarion Power ICs: Drivers AAT1282 2A flash-driver IC, AnalogicTech MAX16826 four-string LED driver, Maxim Integrated Products SA306-IHZ motor-drive IC, Cirrus Logic Power ICs: General Converters FAN5355 800-/1000-mA, 3-MHz buck converter, Fairchild Semiconductor IRS2530D DIM8 IC dimming electronic ballast, International Rectifier LTC3642 50-mA synchronous step-down converter, Linear Technology Simple Switcher controllers and Webench MOSFET-selection tool, National Semiconductor Power ICs: Modules EP53A8xQI 1000-mA, 5-MHz synchronous buck regulator, Enpirion LTM4606 ultralow-EMI, 6A dc/dc mModule, Linear Technology Power Semiconductors Electronic-current limiter, Bourns FSFR series Green FPS power switches, Fairchild Semiconductor Gallium-nitride power-device platform, International Rectifier TrenchFET Generation III power MOSFETs, Vishay Power Supplies 10-kVA Pulsar MX frame or UPS enclosure, Eaton BMR453 series dc/dc converters, Ericsson Liebert NXL 250- to 400-kVA UPS, Emerson Network Power Software/Embedded Tools Beagle Board Linux-development board, Beagleboard.org SES (Smart Energy Suite), Ember XDS2000i in-socket development system, XtremeData XtremeDSP video starter kit, Xilinx Oscilloscopes 90000A series oscilloscope, Agilent Technologies DPO3000 digital-phosphor oscilloscopes, Tektronix PicoScope 9201 sampling oscilloscope, Pico Technology WavePro 7Zi digital oscilloscope, LeCroy Instruments DPP12500A-4T four-tap digital pre-emphasis processor, Synthesys Research MW90010A C-OTDR (Coherent OTDR), Anritsu PNA-X nonlinear vector-network analyzer, Agilent Technologies PXI Express 6.6-GHz RF instruments, National Instruments RSA3000B series real-time spectrum analyzers, Tektronix Design for Test, Production Test, and Metrology AVS300CL wireless metrology tool, CyberOptics Semiconductor Cover-Extend technology, Agilent Technologies ProVision boundary-scan-development-tool suite, JTAG Technologies |
