10th Annual Innovation Awards (1999)

EDN presented the 10th Annual Innovation Awards at a ceremony on April 10, 2000, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

(Winners listed in bold)

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

• Barrie Gilbert (Analog Devices Inc)

• Marc Tremblay (Sun Microsystems)

• Richard Wilenken (Maxim Integrated Products)

INNOVATIONS OF THE YEAR

Components, Hardware & Interconnect

• BivarOpto flexible-light-pipe (FLP) series (Bivar Inc)

• Piezoelectric-transformer/inverter assembly (CTS Wireless Components)

• DuraSwitch Rotor (DuraSwitch Industries Inc)

Test & Measurement

• Infiniium digital scopes (Agilent Technologies)

• Easy I/O Drive data-acquisition system (Computer I/O Corp)

• TDS 694C digital scope (Tektronix)

EDA

• Envisia Synthesis with Physically Knowledgeable Synthesis (Cadence Design Systems Inc)

• FastForward SOC Integration Tool Suite (Sonics Inc)

• Blast Fusion IC place-and-route tool (Magma Design Automation)

Power Sources

• Titania power modules (Lucent Technologies)

• IR2159 dimming ballast-controller IC (International Rectifier)

• PowerQor dc/dc converters (SynQor)

Analog ICs

• AD8361 (Analog Devices)

• Passive RFID tags (Microchip Technology Inc)

• LTC1569-6 and LTC1569-7 ICs (Linear Technology)

Embedded Systems

• EXpressDSP open software-development environment (Texas Instruments)

• Embedded Micro Internetworking Technology (EMIT) 3.0 software-development kit (EmWare Inc)

• Espial development suite (Espial)

Digital ICs

• Janus DTV decoder (TeraLogic Inc)

• DC2144-15T ternary CAM( Mosaid Technologies)

• Horizon communication controllers Galileo Technology

Computers & Peripherals

• XStream printer reference design (Texas Instruments)

• Giotto digital camera (Aitek SrL)

• VolumePro 500 PCI card from Real Time Visualization-Mitsubishi Electric

Microprocessors

• IXP1200 µP (LevelOne)

• C-5 digital-communications processor (C-Port)

• Xtensa-architecture configurable RISC processor (Tensilica)