EDN 2010 Innovation Award finalists: Are you inspired?

EDN Staff - February 17, 2011

EDN’s annual Innovator and Innovation of the Year competition was designed more than two decades ago with one goal in mind: to find, recognize, and promote the people and products that truly inspire the engineering world. Each year, we are amazed by the quality of the entries and the dedication of so many individuals and companies to achieving engineering excellence. And, with your help, we are eager to recognize some of them. Check out the finalists across many categories, and then go to www.edn.com/innovation21 to review complete writeups of each finalist and cast your online ballot. We’ll roll out the red carpet and honor all of the nominees and winners at a reception on May 2 in San Jose, CA. If you’d like to join the festivities, you can also find event and ticket information at this link.

Brad Doerr, Steve Draving, Dave Dascher, Nick Fernandez, Ryan Carlino, Steve Tursich, and Dave Gissel, Infiniium design team, Agilent Technologies
Mario Paniccia, Intel Corp
Paul Darbee, DarbeeVision Inc
Robert Dobkin and Tom Hack, Linear Technology

ACP F-7024 and ACP F-7025 bandpass filters, Avago Technologies
EM773 energy-metering IC, NXP Semiconductors
ISL59605 video equalizer, Intersil
TimerBlox, Linear Technology

FastRTV channel change acceleration technology, Broadcom Corp
LPTM10-1247 and LPTM10-12107 platform managers, Lattice Semiconductor
Transcede 4000 baseband processor, Mindspeed Technologies
VDAP1000, Integrated Device Technology
Xway Wave300 family, Lantiq North America

BeMicro embedded softwaredevelopment kit, Arrow Electronics
Rapid Deployment Program for Android, MontaVista Software
Tower System, Freescale Semiconductor
Virtex-6 FPGA DSP-development kit, Xilinx

Flash controllers based on MSP (Memory Signal Processing) technology, Anobit
Mobile XDR, Rambus Inc
SmartFusion intelligent mixedsignal FPGAs, Microsemi Corp
TXP1000 transcoders, Octasic Inc

Calibre InRoute, Mentor Graphics
DRC+, GlobalFoundries
PathFinder, Apache Design Solutions
SoftPatch for RocketVision, GateRocket Inc

360-Degree Wrap-Around Technology, Fujitsu Semiconductor
Crystal Touch multitouch projected capacitive touch panels, Ocular LCD Inc
mTouch Metal-Over-Capacitive touch-sensing technology, Microchip Technology Inc
mXT1386 and mXT616, Atmel Corp

AMT303 rotary position encoder for brushless motors, CUI Inc
AS54xx 3D Hall magneticencoder IC, austriamicrosystems
MPU-3000 microprocessor family of motion processors, InvenSense Inc
MT9H004 image sensor with DR-Pix technology, Aptina

CAPZero, Power Integrations
EPC1010 GaN FET, Efficient Power Conversion Corp
LT 4180 virtual remote sense controller, Linear Technology
P2110 Powerharvester receiver, Powercast

BMR454 dc/dc converter family, Ericsson Power Modules
BSV-nano POL converter, Bellnix America Inc
N6781A two-quadrant source/ measure unit for battery-drain analysis, Agilent Technologies
Novum digital modules, CUI Inc

2010 Intel Core processor family, Intel Corp
ARM Cortex-M4 processor, ARM
Kinetis 32-bit microcontrollers, Freescale Semiconductor
TMS320C6A8168 Integra DSP+ARM processor, Texas Instruments

Power Debugging Technology, IAR Systems
Sentinel Network, Ridgetop Group Inc
StegAlyzerRTS (Steganography Analyzer Real-Time Scanner), Backbone Security
Webench FPGA Power Architect, National Semiconductor

PXI and AXIe test portfolio, Agilent Technologies
PXIe-5630 vector network analyzer, National Instruments
SPARQ signal-integrity network analyzer, LeCroy Corp
TLA7SAxx Series logic protocol analyzer, Tektronix