6th Annual Innovation Awards (1995)

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

(Winners listed in bold)

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

• Kelly Beavers (Datasonix Corp)

• Tom Botker (Burr-Brown Corp)

• Hans Klein, PhD (IMP Inc)

• Ian Poynton & Ron Lorenz (Power Convertibles Corp)

• Wolfgang Schenke (Router Solutions Inc)

INNOVATIONS OF THE YEAR

Test and Measurement

• THS 720 TekScope (Tektronix Inc)

• TestMaster Graphical Tool (Teradyne Inc)

• PCMCIA-1149.1 Card (Corelis Inc)

• Quantox Wafer Monitor (Keithley Instruments Group)

Power Sources

• PowerShield ISDN Series Uninterruptible Power Supplies (American Power Conversion)

• Ultimod S Switching Power Supplies (Unipower Corp)

• VKP60xT Series DC/DC Converters (Power Convertibles Corp)

• AA32A Series Voltage-Regulator Modules (Astec America Inc)

Hardware, Components and Interconnect

• Silver in Glass Family of Encoder Elements (Spectrol Electronics Corp)

• MGBA Packages (Olin Interconnect Technologies)

• Z4D-A01 Sensor (Omron Electronics Inc)

• FPF42C1066UA Plasma Display (Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc)

ICs and Semiconductors

• RCS-164 Speech-Recognition IC (Sensory Circuits Inc)

• AHA3410 StarLite Coprocessor (Advanced Hardware Architectures)

• lexicode Keyboard Encoder (Usar Systems)

• BtV MediaStream Chip Set (Brooktree Corp)

• Bq2031 Lead-Acid IC (Benchmarq Microelectronics Inc)

• INA116 Instrumentation Amp (Burr-Brown Corp)

• IMP50E10 User/Field-Programmable Analog Circuit (IMP Inc)

• MAX471 Current-Sense Amp (Maxim Integrated Products)

• LMC698x Intelligent-Battery Systems (National Semiconductor Corp)

• 32P4915 PRML Read-Channel IC (Silicon Systems Inc)

• SP503 Serial Transceiver (Sipex Corp)

• Flex 10K PLDs (Altera Corp)

• Fast Flash 5V Flash PLDs (Xilinx Inc)

Microprocessors

• Pentium Pro Processor (Intel Corp)

• ColdFire RISC Architecture (Motorola)

• 6x86 Processor (Cyrix Corp)

• UltraSPARC mC (SPARC Technology Business)

• The Thumb RISC Processor Architecture (Advanced RISC Machines)

• MPC860 PowerPC-based Communications Controller (Motorola Semiconductor)

EDA

• CAMCAD for Windows Translator Tool (Router Solutions Inc)

• LSIM Power Analyst (Mentor Graphics Corp)

• Vformal Verification Tool (Compass Design Automation)

• V-System/PLUS Single-Kernel Simulator (Model Technology Inc)

• DesignBook Tool Suite (Escalade Corp)

• INCA Simulator (Cadence Design Systems Inc)

• BoardQuest Board-Level Design Environment (Cadence Design Systems Inc)

Embedded Systems

• Tornado Embedded-Software Development Tool Suite (Wind River Systems)

• SPOX in Multi-Processor Version (Spectron Microsystems)

• Eaglei Toolset (Eagle Design Automation Inc)

• Photon Micron-GUI (QNX Software Systems Ltd)

Computers & Peripherals

• Pereos 1-Gbyte Tape Drive (Datasonix Corp)

• CompactPCI Passive Backplane Architecture (Ziatech Corp)

• TeraDON 16-DSP ISA Card (Ariel Corp)

• RACEWay Switched-Fabric Interconnect (Mercury Computer Systems Inc)

• Baja4700 VMEBus CPU (Heurikon Corp)