5th Annual Innovation Awards (1994)

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

(Winners listed in bold)

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

• Robert C Dobkin (Linear Technology Corp)

• Robert W. Adams (Analog Devices Inc)

• Paul Basehore (American Neuralogix)

• Eric Etheridge & Gordon Shank (Tektronix Inc)

• VXIPlug & Play Systems Alliance Founding Members (National Instruments)

INNOVATIONS OF THE YEAR

ICs and Semiconductors (a tie)

• TrueGauge MTA-11200 Battery-Management IC (Microchip Technology Inc)

• V.flex High-Speed Modem Chip Set (AT&T Microelectronics)

• AD1890 SamplePort IC (Analog Devices Inc)

• HC5506D SLIC for Telephone-Exchange Line Cards (Harris Semiconductor)

• bq2040 A/D CMOS IC (Benchmarq Microelectronics)

• DDC101 A/D Converter (Burr-Brown Corp)

• Ni1000 Recognition Accelerator (Nestor Inc)

• OneMask Gate Array (Chip Express)

• Acuity Resizing Technology (Genesis Microchip Inc)

• TrenchFET Power MOSFETs (Siliconix Inc)

• B6HF Silicon-Bipolar Process (Siemens AG, Semiconductor Group)

Microprocessors (a tie)

• NLX220 fuzzy-logic mIC (Adaptive Logic Inc)

• 68060 mP (Motorola Inc)

• HyperSPARC MDP (Ross Technology Inc)

• PIC 16C74 8-Bit mC (Microchip Technology Inc)

• CMCU370 Mixed-signal Microcontroller Family (Texas Instruments/Delco Electronics)

• FlashDSP 1616 with On-Chip Non-volatile Flash Memory (AT&T Microelectronics)

• 68356 Embedded mP (Motorola Inc)

• TMS320C80 DSP Chip (Texas Instruments)

Test & Measurement

• 700A Series DSOs (Tektronix Inc)

• POD A Lyzer 100-MHz Logic Analyzer (Boulder Creek Engineering)

• HP54620A Logic Analyzer (Hewlett-Packard Co)

• Integrated Workstation/Logic Analyzer ((Hewlett-Packard Co)

• PC-415 EISA ADC Boards (Datel Inc)

• AT-MIO-16E-2 Equivalent Time-sampling Boards (National Instruments Corp)

• Model 6517 Electrometer (Keithley Instruments Inc)

Embedded Systems

• DiskOnChip Flash-Memory Module (Eurom, a subsidiary of M-Systems Inc)

• WindView Embedded-System Software (Wind River Systems Inc)

• pSOSelect RTOS Kernel (Integrated Systems Inc)

Power Sources

• 3C050M Powerdex Lithium Battery (Gould Inc)

• PT6500 Series Switching Regulators (Power Trends Inc)

EDA

• Behavioral Compiler (Synopsys Inc)

• HDL-ICE ASIC Emulation System (Quickturn Design Systems Inc)

• Logic Animator (Quickturn Design Systems Inc)

• Resolve Analog Optimizer (Cadence Design Systems Inc)

• Mistral 2 (Mentor Graphics Corp)

• HDL-A (Anacad Electrical)

• LITE Enhancement to Test Generation (Sunrise Test Systems Inc)

• UniSolve Concurrent-Analysis Tool Suite (Unicad Inc)

Computers & Peripherals

• Cardio-486 Motherboard (EPSON America Inc)

• SprintScan 35 High-Speed Slide Scanner (Polaroid Corp)

• CompactFlash Removable Mass-Storage System (SunDisk Corp)

Components, Hardware & Interconnects

• FPF21C8060UA Plasma Display Panel (Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc)

• Elliptical Pin Fin Aerodynamic Heat Sink (Aavid Engineering Inc)

• PGF Surface-Mount Power Magnetics (Pulse Engineering Inc)

• PE-68009 Transmission-Line Filter Module (Pulse Engineering Inc)