14th Annual Innovation Awards (2003)

• Complete list of finalists and winners
• Press release
• Photo album

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

(Winners listed in bold)

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR:

• AMD64 design team led by Fred Weber (AMD)
• Shen Lin, Norman Chang, Weize Xie, and Yu Liu (Apache Design Solutions)
• Nello Sevastopoulos (Linear Technology Corp)
• Abhijit Shanbhag and Abhijit Phanse (Scintera Networks)

INNOVATION OF THE YEAR

Analog functions:

• AD8099 op amp (Analog Devices)
• LT1568 matched filter (Linear Technology)
• LMV1012 microphone amplifier (National Semiconductor)
• SIL9190 and SIL9993 chip set (Silicon Image)

Application-specific standard products/SOCs:

• AT43USB370 USB host processor (Atmel)
• BlueCore3-Multimedia (Cambridge Silicon Radio)
• DiMeNsion 8650 single-chip HDD/DVD-recorder-system processor (LSI Logic)
• AR7 ADSL router on chip (Texas Instruments)
• Generation9 integrated digital-TV system (Zoran)

Components:

• D6F gas-flow sensor (Omron)
• GeoHelix-S active GPS antenna (Sarantel)
• LIS3L02 three-axis low-g accelerometer (STMicroelectronics)

Digital ICs:

• HardCopy Stratix (Altera)
• AccelArray (Fujitsu)
• Mobile DiskOnChip G3 (M-Systems)

EDA: Design exploration:

• Spyglass Constraints validation tool (Atrenta)
• Time Director RTL-timing-analysis software (InTime Software)
• Link for ModelSim cosimulation environment (The Mathworks and Mentor Graphics)
• System Architect design-verification software (Summit Design)

EDA: Physical analysis:

• RedHawk-SDL Full-chip SoC Dynamic Power Integrity Solution (Apache Design Solutions)
• Blast Rail power-integrity tool (Magma Design Automation)
• Cooltime electrical-integrity suite (Sequence Design)
• MeasureXtractor modeling tool (TDA Systems)

Embedded products:

• Cornice SE embedded subsystem (Cornice)
• Tetra CPU board (Equator Technologies Inc)
• i-Beans tiny modules (Millennial Net Inc)
• SMT319 graphics module (Sundance)
• EBC-C3 fanless single-board computer (WinSystems)

Network and communication chips:

• Harrier 10/100/1000 multiport Ethernet MAC (Ample Communications)
• BCM4317 AirForce One chip (Broadcom)
• MB87Q3050 10-Gbps Ethernet-switch-chip IC (Fujitsu)
• SCN3142 electronic-dispersion-compensation engine (Scintera Networks)

Power ICs:

• xPhase scalable power-management chip set (International Rectifier)
• X3015P point-of-load power converter (PowerOne)
• RHFL4913 rad-hard low-dropout regulator (STMicroelectronics)

Power supplies:

• Typhoon bricks dc/dc converters (Artesyn Technologies)
• B048K120T20 V*I chip BCM (Vicor)

Processors:

• Athlon 64 microprocessor (AMD)
• ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC Processor (Analog Devices)
• ARM1176JZ(F)-S core (ARM)

Software:

• TimeMachine Debugger (Green Hills Software)
• Code Composer Studio Version 2.2 (Texas Instruments)
• Power Management Framework (QNX)

Test and measurement:

• LabView 7 Express graphical development environment (National Instruments)
• TDS7704B DPO (Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope) (Tektronix)
• EmiScope-II technology (Optonics Inc)
• N4901A SerialBERT (Agilent Technologies)

STARTUP COMPANY OF THE YEAR

• Alereon
• Entropic Communications
• Motia

BEST CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE OF 2003

• "Single-ended or differential? That is the question," by Mike McTigue, Agilent Technologies, Feb 6, 2003
• "Crossing the abyss: asynchronous signals in a synchronous world," by Mike Stein, Paradigm Works, July 24, 2003
• "Power-integrity and ground-bounce simulation of high-speed pc boards," by Martin Vogel and Brad Cole, Ansoft Corp, Sept 18, 2003
• "The taming of the slew," by Jim Williams, Linear Technology Corp, Sept 25, 2003
• "Designing controlled-impedance vias," by Thomas Neu, Texas Instruments, Oct 2, 2003
• "Virtual machines and stochastic scheduling simplify wireless design," by Mike Woodward, RadioScape Ltd, Oct 16, 2003
• "Powering your core voltage," by Jason Rubadue, National Semiconductor, Nov 27, 2003
• "Exploring memory-interface options," by Kannan Srinivasagam, Cypress Semiconductor Corp, Dec 11, 2003

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