WINNERS
AND FINALISTS
(Winners listed in bold)
INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
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David Bingham & Charlie Allen (Maxim Integrated
Products)
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Dean Wallace (Linfinity Microelectronics Inc)
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Ron Cline, Tom Davies and Schuyler Shimanek (Philips
Semiconductor)
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Peter Eichenberger (Viewlogic Systems Inc)
INNOVATIONS OF THE YEAR
Digital ICs
- CoolRunner CPLDs (Philips Semiconductor)
- The gmVLD8 and gmVLD10 DICE Video Line-Doubling Chips (Genesis Microchip)
- S631001 1-Mbit CMOS Mask-Programmable ROM (American Microsystems Inc)
- 3Dimage 975DVD Desktop PC Graphics Controller (Trident Microsystems Inc)
- ZPSD4XX Programmable Microcontroller Peripherals (WSI Inc)
- System-Programmable Gate Arrays (Actel)
- MDL60 ASIC with Embedded DRAM (Samsung)
Analog ICs and Semiconductors
- MAX3238 Autoshutdown/Autowakeup RS-232C Transceiver (Maxim Integrated
Products)
- IVC102 FET-input Op Amp (Burr-Brown Corp)
- UltraMAX LX5218 and LX5219 SCSI Terminators (Linfinity Microelectronics
Inc)
- Microstamp Remote-Intelligent Communications IC (Micron Communications)
- LM78mP System Hardware Monitor (National Semiconductor Corp)
- TFDS6000 Integrated Infrared Transceiver Module (Temic Semiconductors)
Microprocessors/Controllers
- PIC16C9XXmCs with LCD Drivers (Microchip Technology Inc)
- Piccolo Signal-Processing Architecture (Advanced RISC Machines)
- PicoJava I mP Core (Sun Microelectronics)
- SH7708 SH-3 Microcontroller (Hitachi America Ltd)
Computers and Peripherals
- DSC-F1 Digital Still Camera (Sony Electronics Inc)
- WavePoint II Wireless-LAN Access Point (Lucent Technologies)
- VirtuoVue Palm-Sized Portable Display (Motorola Semiconductor Products)
- Cheetah Family of 10,000-rpm Disk Drives (Seagate Technology)
- SPARCengine Ultra AX Motherboard (Sun Microsystems)
Embedded Development
- SuperTAP Microprocessor Emulator (Applied Microsystems Corp)
- pRISM+ Software-Development System (Integrated Systems Inc)
- Neurtrino Real-Time Operation System (QNX Software Systems Ltd)
Test and Measurement
- TDS210 and 220, Small, Low-Cost Benchtop DSOs (Tektronix Inc)
- MultiProbe System for Probing High-Pin-Count PQFP's (Hewlett-Packard Co)
- Classic 6000 DSO with TruTrace Z-Axis-Modulated Display (Gould Instrument
Systems Inc)
- 54645A and D DSO and DSO/Logic analyzer with MegaZoom (Hewlett-Packard Co)
- Models 163 and 164 Handheld Counter-timers with Waveform Display (Fluke
Corp)
Components, Hardware and Interconnect
- AllnGaP LEDs (Hewlett-Packard)
- Polar Cap Heat Sinks (Aavid Thermal Technologies)
- PressOn Adapter (Kontron Electronik)
- 266 EMILM Laser Module (Lucent Technologies)
- Versa-Pac Magnetic Components (Coiltronics Inc)
Power Sources
- LM2825N DC/DC Converter (National Semiconductor Corp)
- EL7560C Pentium Pro Supply (Elantec Inc)
- ESV5 Uninterruptible Power Supply (MGE UPS Systems)
- SP4422A Electroluminescent-Lamp Driver (Sipex Corp)
EDA
- Circuit Envelope RF Simulator (Hewlett-Packard HP-EESOF Div)
- EDA memBIST Memory Controller (LogicVision Inc)
- Fire & Ice, Thunder & Lightning Full-Chip Verification (Simplex
Solutions Inc)
- QuickChange Reconfigurable FPGA Specification (Atmel Corp)
- Aquarius-XO Chip Placement and Routing (Avant! Corp)
- Verilog Model Compiler (Viewlogic Systems)
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