Innovator of the Year

• iMotion team (Toshio Takahashi, Eddy Ho, Seok Joon Hong, Ilia Greenblat , Sergio Morini, Fabio Necco), International Rectifier
• WINNER: Virtex-5 LXT FPGA design team (Steve Douglass, Suresh Menon, et al), Xilinx
• Kenneth Parker, senior scientist, Agilent
• Dr Kaigham (Ken) J Gabriel, Akustica

Analog ICs

• WINNER: Symphony Class D audio amplifier (Freescale)
• ADuM125x I2C digital isolators (Analog Devices)
• CAT3636 quad-mode fractional charge-pump LED driver (Catalyst Semiconductor)
• LTC6908 SOT-23 oscillator (Linear Technology)

Power ICs

• MIC2285 buck regulator (Micrel)
• Di-POL point-of-load controller product family (PX7510 AND PX7520) (Primarion)
• WINNER: IR1167 SmartRectifier IC (International Rectifier)

Mixed-signal ASSPs

• WINNER: AKU2000 digital MEMS microphone (Akustica)
• IRMCF341 motor control IC (International Rectifier)
• BlueCore5-FM Bluetooth transceiver and FM radio (CSR)

Network and communications ICs

• Nexperia 6120 CSS (cellular system solution) (NXP Semiconductors)
• Fx100100S-5 VDSL2 CPE IC (Ikanos)
• IDT 70K2000BR PPS (pre-processing switch) (IDT)
• WINNER: QSC (Qualcomm Single Chip) Solutions for CDMA2000 1X (Qualcomm)

Multimedia ICs

• DMS-02 media processor (3Dlabs)
• SMP8634 single-chip processor (Sigma Designs)
• WINNER: LSI DMN-8633 single-chip media processor (LSI Logic)

Digital ICs, programmable logic, and memory

• PEX 8548 PCI Express switch (PLX Technology)
• MR2A16A MRAM (Freescale)
• WINNER: Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs (Xilinx)

Microcontrollers and DSCs

• dsPIC30Fxxxx DSC (Microchip)
• WINNER: TMS320F28044 DSC (Texas Instruments)
• STR910F microcontroller (STMicroelectronics)
• AVR32 microcontroller (Atmel)

Microprocessors and DSPs

• MSC8144 quad-core DSP (Freescale)
• WINNER: Core 2 Duo processor (Intel)
• 34K multithreading core (MIPS)

ESL, pc-board, and IC front-end design and verification

• WINNER: Analog FastSPICE and RF FastSPICE simulators (Berkeley Design Automation)
• RioMagic IC and package co-design tool (Rio Design Automation)
• Siloti on-the-fly RTL debugger (Novas Software)

IC back-end/DFM/proprietary ASIC and FPGA design flows

• BlazeMO leakage-power-optimization tool (Blaze DFM)
• InShape model-based DFM tool (Clear Shape Technologies)
• Talus RTL-to-GDSII suite (Magma Design Automation)
• WINNER: Space-based router (Cadence)

Computers, boards, and buses

• SBC4670 single-board computer (Micro/sys)
• WINNER: SkyeModule M9 embedded RFID reader (SkyeTek)
• ETXexpress-CD computer-on-module (Kontron)

Components

• ACFM-7101 Quintplexer (Avago Technologies)
• SP35 tire-pressure sensor (Infineon)
• WINNER: ADIS16250/iSensor intelligent sensor (Analog Devices)
• SiT8002 silicon mechanical programmable oscillators (SiTime)

Power sources

• GS206 dual-cell supercapacitor (CAP-XX Limited)
• WINNER: TurboTrans point-of-load power modules (Texas Instruments)
• Boostcap power and energy ultracapacitors (Maxwell Technologies)

Software

• WINNER: Nios II C-to-hardware-acceleration compiler (Altera)
• LabView 8.20 graphical-data-flow-language update (National Instruments)
• eZ430-F2013 microcontroller-development tool (Texas Instruments)
• Visi-Trace multi-core visualization tools (QNX Software Systems)

Test and measurement

• AWG7000 Series 5.8-GHz arbitrary-waveform generators (Tektronix Inc)
• WaveScan DSO aberrant-waveform-detection technology (LeCroy Corp)
• WINNER: Medalist bead-probe technology (Agilent Technologies)
• Models 2910 vector-signal generator and 2810 vector-signal analyzer (Keithley

Best contributed article

• Reducing ground bounce in dc/dc-converter applications
• Using Mathcad to derive circuit equations and optimize circuit behavior
• Hazardous-voltage primer
• Magnetic-field measurements hold the key to reducing dc/dc EMI
• WINNER: Signal conditioning for high-impedance sensors

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