11th Annual Innovation Awards (2000)

EDN presented the 11th Annual Innovation Awards at a ceremony on April 9, 2001, at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco.

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

(Winners listed in bold)

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

• Casimer DeCusatis (IBM)

• Jim Everitt (Clare Micronix)

• Teresa Meng, PhD (Atheros Communications Inc)

INNOVATIONS OF THE YEAR

Computers, boards, and buses

• EnCore plug-in CPU subsystem (Ampro Computers Inc)

• CP302 CompactPCI single-board computer (PEP Modular Computers)

Components, hardware, and interconnect

• FBAR (film-bulk-acoustic-resonator) devices (Agilent Technologies)

• MicroGiGaCN interconnect system (Fujitsu Takamisawa America)

• MEMS-based accelerometer (MEMSIC Inc)

EDA tools

• VCC (Virtual Component Co-Design) environment (Cadence Design Systems)

• Tharas Hammer 50/32 (Tharas Systems Inc)

• Picasso (Barcelona Design)

Embedded-development systems and tools

• VisualDSP Software Development Tools package (Analog Devices Inc)

• Real-Time Workshop 4 (The Mathworks)

• TotalIA reference platform (Espial)

Communications

• Wireless engine chip set (Radiata)

• Jazz PSA (Programmable System Architecture) (Improv Systems)

• S3091 SONET/SDH transmitter and S3092 SONET/SDH receiver (Applied Micro Circuits Corp)

Digital ICs

• AD1896 sample-rate converter (Analog Devices)

• CL10K FPGAs (Clear Logic)

• MT28S4M16LC SyncFlash memory (Micron Technology)

Multimedia functions

• GeForce2 graphics processor (Nvidia)

• Tango platform (PortalPlayer)

Peripherals

• Stowaway portable PDA keyboard (Think Outside)

• SiI 168 PanelLink transmitter and SiI 861 PanelLink controller (Silicon Image Inc)

• MXED101 OLED display driver (Clare Micronix Inc)

Power sources and controllers

• NET1 power supplies (Power-One Inc)

• Quarter-brick dc/dc converters (SynQor)

• IR2167 (International Rectifier)

Software

• Filter Design Toolbox 2.0 (The Mathworks)

• Engineering Channel Provider tool (Innovation Chain Inc)

Test & measurement

• TDS7000 digital-phosphor oscilloscopes (Tektronix Inc)

• WavePro series DSOs (LeCroy)

• 2029 vector modulator (IFR Systems Inc)

Microprocessors/microcontrollers

• TC1775 32-bit processor (Infineon)

• TA7S20 configurable system on chip (Triscend Corp)

• Jazelle processor (ARM)

Digital-signal processors

• C55x fixed-point DSP (Texas Instruments)

• RCP (reconfigurable communications processor) (Chameleon Systems)

• Programmable DSP IC (BOPS Inc)

Analog ICs and discrete semiconductors

• SP508 transceiver (Sipex)

• Si5020 multirate CDR (Silicon Laboratories)

• VSC8123 (Vitesse)