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EDN announced the winners
of its 15th Annual Innovation Awards at a black-tie event on March
7, 2005 at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins in San Francisco. The
event featured keynote addresses by Walter Mossberg, author of The
Wall Street Journal's "Personal Technology" column,
and Geoffrey C. Orsak, PhD, Dean of Southern Methodist
University's School of Engineering. In addition, EDN
awarded $10,000 to an engineering school to be chosen by the
Innovator of the Year, Susanne Paul of Silicon Laboratories.
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(Winners listed in bold)
INNOVATORS
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Jim Wilson and the Blackfin
processor design team, Analog Devices
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Ashraf Lotfi, Jian Tan, Trifon
Liamkopoulos, Robert Filas, Enpirion
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Susanne Paul, Silicon
Laboratories
ANALOG ICs
- AD8318 1-MHz to 8-GHz logarithmic
detector/controller, Analog Devices
- XRT class D audio power amplifier, D2Audio
- LTC5100 VCSEL driver, Linear Technology
- Si4300 CMOS power amplifier for GSM/GPRS,
Silicon Laboratories
ASSPs/SOCs
- Blackfin Fusiv media gateway platfor, Analog
Devices
- AR5006X WLAN mixed-signal SOC, Atheros
Communications
- c.LINK-270 media-distribution chip, Entropic
Communications
- MSM6100 Mobile-Station Modem, Qualcomm
COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING ICs
- PRS 5G/20G switch fabric, AMCC
- AccelArray GigaFrame structured ASIC, Fujitsu
Microelectronics
- 88P8344 SPI packet-exchange chip, IDT
DIGITAL ICs
- Stratix II FPGA family, Alter
- Matrix 3-D Memory, Matrix Semiconductor
- Virtex-4 FPGA family, Xilinx
EDA
- Allegro PCB SI 630, Cadence
- DeltaFX software, Catalytic
- JasperGold validation and verification tools,
Jasper Design Automation
- Webench active-filter design system, National
Semiconductor
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
- SBC4495 EPIC single-board computer, Micro/sys
- MVME6100 single-board computer, Motorola Embedded
Communications Computing Group
- CompactRIO embedded system, National
Instruments
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- XPM nonvolatile memory, Kilopass
- Mobilize power-management IP core, Virtual
Silicon Technology
PASSIVE COMPONENTS/SENSORS
- MX1000 laser optical mouse, Agilent
- A132x family linear hall-effect sensors, Allegro
Microsystems
- SiSonic MEMS-based SMT microphone, Knowles
Acoustics
POWER ICs
- EN5330 switch-mode synchronous dc/dc converter
IC, Enpirion
- IR2520D adaptive CFL-ballast IC, International
Rectifier
- DS2711 loose-cell NiMH and NiCd charger, Maxim
Integrated Products
POWER SUPPLIES
- CAR1248 front-end/rectifier, Cherokee
International
- Z-One Digital Intermediate Bus Architecture,
Power-One
PROCESSORS
- Pentium M processors, Intel
- S5610 software-configurable processor, Stretch
- Xtensa LX configurable processor, Tensilica
- TMS32064x DSP, Texas Instruments
SOFTWARE
- Integrity PC RTOS, Green Hills Software
- Automotive Grade Linux, Metrowerks
- Low-Power Design Tool Suite, Texas Instruments
TEST AND MEASUREMENT
- B4655A FPGA probe, Agilent
- Bertscope 12500A BER analyzer, SyntheSys Research
- TDS5000B Series DPO oscilloscopes with MyScope,
Tektronix
BEST CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE OF 2004
- Design-planning guidelines prevent chip
surprises, by Steve Lloyd, Rick Mitchell, Ron Spillman, Jonathan
Young, Synopsys Professional Services, Feb 5, 2004.
- A universal approach to hot-swapping power in
telecom systems, by Bob Neidorff, Texas Instruments High
Performance Analog Products, March 4, 2004.
- Simple circuitry for
cellular-telephone/camera-flash illumination, by Jim Williams and
Albert Wu, Linear Technology Corp, May 27, 2004.
- Analysis
of board layout helps cure jitter problems, by Eric Bogatin,
PhD, Synergetix, and Gene Garat, Mentor Graphics, Aug 5, 2004.
- Safety isolation protects users and electronic
instruments, by David Lohbeck, National Instruments, Sept 30,
2004.
- Choosing the perfect TFT display (Part 1 and
Part 2), by Rob Dautel, All American Semiconductor, Feb 5, 2004 and Feb
19, 2004
THE BEST OF 15 YEARS
- 1996: CoolRunner CPLDs, Philips Semiconductor/Xilinx
- 2000: C55x fixed-point DSP, Texas Instruments
- 1992: Pentium Processor, Intel
- 1990: HP54600A 100-MHz DSO, Hewlett-Packard/Agilent
- 1991: ADXL50 acceleration sensor, Analog Devices
- 1991: DSP Station software, Mentor Graphics
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