EDN Hot 100 products
EDN Staff - December 15, 2010
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Analog
Analog Devices
AD5791 20-bit DAC
Fairchild Semiconductor
FAN739x, high- and low-side gate driver
Intersil
ISL59605 MegaQ video equalizer
Linear Technology Corp
LT6656 low-power voltage reference
Maxim Integrated Products
MAX11210 single-channel, 24-bit ADC
Microchip Technology
MCP4361 quad potentiometer and MCP4362 quad rheostat
National Semiconductor
ADC12D1800 ADC
National Semiconductor
DS92LX2121/2 SERDES
Nuvoton
ISD61S00 audio-chip recorder
Silicon Labs
Si270x class-D audio amplifier
Texas Instruments
OPA1641, dual OPA1642, and quad OPA1644 operational amplifiers
Wolfson
Microelectronics
WM8912 audio DAC
Communications and networking
Atheros Communications
AR7400 power-line-networking chip set
Quantenna
QHS600 4x4 MIMO 802.11n chip set
Sigma Designs
CG511x power-line-networking chip set
Summit Semiconductor
FS848 wireless audio transceiver
Components
Cree
XLamp MPL EasyWhite LED
Digi International
iDigi machine-to-machine network management
Diodes Inc
ZXTN26020DMF 20V bipolar transistors
Efficient Power
Conversion Corp GaN power transistors
Infineon
OptiMOS MOSFETs
International Rectifier
iP2010 and iP2011 GaN power transistors
Luminus Devices
UV CBT-120 UV LED
Molex
Helieon LED module
National Semiconductor
Webench LED Architect
Philips Lumileds
Luxeon Rebel LEDs for indoor illumination
Texas Instruments
CSD86350Q5D Power Block synchronous MOSFET halfbridge device
Vishay
SiR880DP FET
Development kits
Avnet Electronics Marketing
Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA/DSP-development kit
Texas Instruments
LaunchPad development board
EDA
Atrenta
SpyGlass-Physical RTL design-closure-estimation tool
Magma Design Automation
Tekton STA/extraction/Spice environment
Mentor Graphics
Calibre InRoute Olympus routing kernel
Mentor Graphics
SystemC support for Catapult C
Synopsys
DesignWare STAR (self-test-and-repair) ECC IP
Logic analyzers
LeCroy
LogicStudio 16 logic analyzer
Tektronix
TLA6000 midrange logic analyzers
Memory and storage
IM Flash Technologies
25-nm, 3-bit-per-cell MLC NAND-flash memory
Micron Technology
C300 and P300 solid-state drives
PLX Technology
NAS 7820, 7821, and 7825 storage controllers
SandForce
SF-2000 solid-state-drive-controller series
Seagate Technology
Momentus XT hybrid hard-disk drive
Western Digital
Four-platter, 3-Tbyte hard-disk drives
Microcontrollers and processors
AMD
Bobcat Fusion CPU-plus-APU
ARM
Cortex-A15 CPU core
Freescale Semiconductor
Kinetis ARM-based microcontrollers
Intel
Lincroft Atom CPU and Moorestown chip set
Texas Instruments
TMS320C66x fixed- and floating-point cores
Texas Instruments
Integra ARM-based microcontroller-plus-DSP family
Vitesse
VSC7460 Jaguar carrier-Ethernet switch
Multimedia ICs
AMD
Radeon HD 6800 series graphics processors
Zenverge
ZN100, ZN150, and ZN200 audio, video, and DRM transcoders
Oscilloscopes
Agilent Technologies
86100D DCA-X (extended) wide-bandwidth equivalent-time-sampling oscilloscope
Rohde & Schwarz
RTO 2-GHz oscilloscopes
Power
Enpirion
EN6300 family of voltage mode synchronous buck dc/dc converters
Fairchild Semiconductor
FAN5365 digitally programmable regulator
Freescale Semiconductor
MCF51EM256 smart-meter IC
Linear Technology Corp
LT4180 virtual remote sense-controller IC
Linear Technology Corp
LTC3108 energy-harvesting boost regulator
National Semiconductor
LMZ series of Simple Switcher modules
National Semiconductor
LM5035C PWM controller
Picor
Cool-Power platform
Powercast
TX91501 transmitter module
Semtech
SC174 and SC173 buck regulators
Silicon Labs
Si8420 isolator
Skinny Bytes
Touchscreen AIO
STMicroelectronics
SPV1001 bypass diode
Teridian
78M6618 power-metering chip
Texas Instruments
TPS7A30 negative-output low-dropout linear regulator
RF
Hittite Microwave
HMC-C070 synthesizer
Marvell
88DE8500 hybrid silicon tuner
Maxim Integrated Products
MAX2042 upconverting and downconverting, double-balanced passive mixer
Peregrine Semiconductor
PE42662 SP6T (single-pole/six-throw) RF switch
Peregrine Semiconductor
PE42440 SP4T (single-pole/four-throw) RF switch
Radiometrix
TXL2/RXL2 9600-baud RF modem
RFMD
RF3931 GaN unmatched power transistors
Scintera Networks
SC1887 adaptive RF predistortion chip
Texas Instruments
CC1190 RF sub-GHz range extender
Texas Instruments
CC2590/1 RF 2.4-GHz range extender
Semiconductor processes and IP
IBM
CMOS-7HV high-voltage, mixed-signal process
Signal analyzers
Anritsu
MS2830A 9-kHz to 3.6-, 6-, or 13.5-GHz signal analyzers
Signal generators
Agilent Technologies
81180A 4.2G-sample/sec arbitrary-waveform generator
Anritsu
MG3690C 70-GHz RF/microwave-signal generator
LeCroy
ArbStudio arbitrary-waveform generator
Single-board computers
Adlink
Ampro ReadyBoard 740 Atom-based single-board computer
WinSystems
PCM-VDX-2-512 Vortex86DXprocessor-based PC/104 1-GHz single-board computer
Software/EDA for board/system design
Cadence Design Systems
Allegro PCB SI signal-integrity tool
CST
Studio Suite 2010 for EM, mechanical, and thermal simulation
The MathWorks
Target Support Package for TI C2000 Piccolo microcontrollers
Mentor Graphics
FloTherm 9 computational fluid-dynamics software
National Instruments
LabView 2010 graphical-design software
National Semiconductor
Webench FPGA Power Architect
Power Integrations
PI Expert power-integrity-analysis tool
Sigrity
Channel Designer power-integrity-analysis tool
Sunstone Circuits
PCB123 Version 4 circuit-design software
Source-measure units
Agilent Technologies
N6781A source-measure unit for battery-drain analysis
Spectrum analyzers
Agilent Technologies
N9342C HSA 100-kHz to 7-GHz handheld spectrum analyzer
Anritsu
MS272xC Spectrum Master handheld RF spectrum analyzers
Wireless test
Aeroflex
7100 Series fading simulator with support for LTE bandwidths to 20 MHz with a frequency range to 6 GHz
National Instruments
Version 2.0 WLAN software suite for IEEE 802.11n testing
Raytheon completes first international delivery of Enhanced Paveway™ II GBU-50
Ultra-sensitive sensors respond through steel or glass
Touchstone Semiconductor TS3300 ultra low-power, load independent, high-efficiency boost
Microchip latest Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and ZigBee Products
Lockheed Martin Launches Redesigned F-35 Website
Connectors up performance for LED bulbs and fixtures
Modular Data Center Market Worth $40.41 Billion by 2018
CUI’s next generation 500 mA DC switching regulator series
COTO claims RedRock is industry’s smallest MEMS magnetic reed switch
