EDN names winners of 18th Annual Innovation Awards
By Staff -- 4/14/2008
San Jose, CA — In a ceremony here tonight, EDN bestowed its 18th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced. A complete list of the winners follows. (Click each winner's name for details.)
Innovator of the Year
Intel: 45-nm innovation team
Analog ICs
Infineon Technologies: BGA700L16, BGA734L16 low-noise amplifiers
Mixed Signal ASSPs
National Semiconductor: LMH0340/LMH0341 serializer/deserializer
Linear Technology: LT3080 adjustable LDO regulator
Digital ASSPs
AMI Semiconductor: Ezairo 5910 hearing-aid IC
Network and Communication ICs
Broadcom: BCM4325 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth IC
Multimedia ICs
Marvell: 88DE2710 video-format converter
Digital ICs, Memory, and Programmable Logic
SST: All-In-OneMemory
Microcontrollers and Cores
NXP Semiconductors: LPC2478 ARM-based microcontroller
Multicore Microprocessors
Intel: QX9650 Core 2 Extreme processor
EDA (Digital IC Design Tools)
Mentor Graphics: Calibre nmOPC optical-proximity-correction tool
EDA (PCB, FPGA, and Custom IC Tools)
Apache Design Solutions: Sentinel-CPM power- and signal-integrity tool
Boards, Modules, and Peripherals
National Instruments: 9014 CompactRIO controller
Software
MontaVista: Mobilinux 5.0
Development Kits
Texas Instruments: eZ430-RF2500 wireless-development tool
Power Sources
Power-One: ZY8160 60A point-of-load converter
Sensors
Kodak: Image-sensor technology
Passive Components and Interconnect
Vishay: Epic thin-film-resistor chip
Test & Measurement (Power Technology)
Agilent Technologies: N6705A dc-power analyzer
Test & Measurement (General Purpose)
LeCroy: WaveExpert 100H sampling oscilloscope
Best Contributed Article
Kymberly Schmidt, Maxim Integrated Products: "Choose capacitor types to optimize PC sound quality"
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