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EDN announces 17th Annual Innovation Awards winners

Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT design team takes home Innovator of the Year honors.

By Staff -- EDN, 4/2/2007

San Jose—At a black-tie event here tonight kicking off the Embedded Systems Conference, EDN announced the winners of its 17th Annual Innovation Awards. The complete list of winners follows. Click on a name below for details, or visit the 17th Annual Innovation Awards page for details on all of winners and the other finalists.

Innovator of the Year:
Xilinx
Steve Douglass, Suresh Menon, and the Virtex-5 LXT Design Team

Analog ICs:
Freescale Semiconductor
Symphony Class D Audio Amplifier

Power ICs:
International Rectifier
IR1167 SmartRectifier IC

Mixed-Signal ASSPs:
Akustica
AKU2000 Digital MEMS Microphone

Network and Communications ICs
Qualcomm
QSC (Qualcomm-Single-Chip) Solutions for CDMA2000 1X

Multimedia ICs:
LSI Logic
LSI DMN-8633 Single-Chip Media Processor

Digital ICs, Programmable Logic, and Memory:
Xilinx
Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs

Microcontrollers and DSCs:
Texas Instruments
TMS320F28044 DSC

Microprocessors and DSPs:
Intel
Core 2 Duo Processor

EDA: ESL, PCB, and IC Front-End Tools:
Berkeley Design Automation
Analog FastSPICE and RF FastSPICE Simulators

EDA: IC Back-End and DFM Tools:
Cadence Design Systems
Space-Based Router

Computers, Boards, and Buses:
SkyeTek
SkyeModule M9 Embedded RFID Reader

Sensors and Components:
Analog Devices
ADIS16250/iSensor Intelligent Sensor

Power Sources:
Texas Instruments
TurboTrans Point-Of-Load Power Modules

Software:
Altera
Nios II C-to-Hardware-Acceleration Compiler

Test and Measurement:
Agilent Technologies
Medalist Bead-Probe Technology

Best Contributed Article:
Linear Technology
"Signal conditioning for high-impedance sensors," by Glen Brisebois