3rd Annual Innovation Awards (1992)

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

(Winners listed in bold)

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

• Jim Williams (Linear Technology)

• Dr. Dapang Chen and Shie Qian (National Instruments)

• ADXL50 Design Team (Analog Devices Inc)

• Dr Terry J Scheffer and Benjamin Clifton (In Focus Systems Inc)

• Jeff Robinson (Star Semiconductor Corp)

INNOVATIONS OF THE YEAR

Integrated Circuits & Semiconductors

• ADXL50 Acceleration Sensor (Analog Devices Inc)

• ispLSI 1032 PLD (Lattice Semiconductor Corp)

• CP20K FPGAs (Crosspoint Solutions Inc)

• LT1105 Switching Regulator (Linear Technology Corp)

• Rambus DRAM Technology (Rambus Inc)

Microprocessors

• Intel486 DX2 Microprocessor (Intel Corp)

• R4000 RISC Microprocessor (Mips Computer Systems Inc)

• HyperSPARC Processor (Cypress Semiconductor Corp)

• Sproc-1000 DSP Chip (Star Semiconductor Corp)

• 8680 PC/Chip (Chips & Technologies Inc)

Computers & Peripherals

• Stingray 1842 1.8-in. Disk Drive (Integral Peripherals Inc)

• Active Addressing Technology for LCDs (In Focus Systems Inc)

CAE/CAD

• DSP Station Software (Mentor Graphics Corp)

• TestGen Sequential ATPG Software (Sunrise Test Systems Inc)

• ASIC Navigator (Compass Design Automation)

• Allegro Correct-by-Design Software (Cadence Design Systems Inc)

Test & Measurement

• 90-Series Scopemeters (John Fluke Mfg Co Inc)

• HP 54720A Real-Time-Sampling DSO (Hewlett-Packard Co)

• TDS 820 Scope (Tektronix Inc)

Software

• Gabor Spectrogram (National Instruments)

• DT-Open Layers Software Standard (Data Translation Inc)

• Peerless Imaging Operating Environment (Peerless Systems Corp)

Components, Hardware & Interconnects

• AX1024 Programmable Interconnect Device (Aptix Corp)

• Active Eurocard Connector (AMP Inc)

• Flexible Universal PLCC ZIF Test Socket (Aries Electronics Inc)

Power Sources

• 3D-PCB Transformer (Philips Industrial Activities SA)

• Megapac Power Supply (Westcor Corp)