EDN's 18th Annual Innovation Awards

• Bill Dally (Stream Processors)
• Robert Dobkin (Linear Technology)
• WINNER: 45-nm innovation team (Intel)

Analog ICs

• WINNER: BGA700L16, BGA734L16 low-noise amplifiers (Infineon Technologies AG)
• CS556X/7X/8X industrial A/D converter (Cirrus Logic)
• DS4026 10-to-51.84-MHz TCXO (Maxim Integrated Products)
• LTC6102 current-sense amplifier (Linear Technology)

Mixed Signal ASSPs

• AMRT-1410/AMRI-2000 input-device IC (Avago Technologies)
• WINNER: LMH0340/LMH0341 serializer/deserializer (National Semiconductor)
• MxL7001 TV-tuner IC (MaxLinear)
• WM8350 audio and power-management IC (Wolfson Microelectronics plc)

Power ICs

• C2470 offline ac/dc controller (CamSemi)
• ISL9208 multicell-battery-pack IC (Intersil Corp)
• LM5574/5/6 and LM25574/5/6 buck regulators (National Semiconductor)
• WINNER: LT3080 adjustable LDO regulator (Linear Technology)

Digital ASSPs

• CC1111 wireless-sensor SOC (Texas Instruments)
• DS3641 security controller (Maxim Integrated Products)
• WINNER: Ezairo 5910 hearing-aid IC (AMI Semiconductor)
• PEX 8600 PCI Express switches (PLX Technology)

Network and Communication ICs

• WINNER: BCM4325 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth IC (Broadcom)
• CX96xxx VDSL2 Gateway (Conexant Systems)
• MB86K21 Mobile WiMax SOC (Fujitsu Microelectronics)
• MSC7120 GPON SOC (Freescale Semiconductor)

Multimedia ICs

• WINNER: 88DE2710 video-format converter (Marvell)
• MB86H52 video transcoder (Fujitsu Microelectronics)
• MelodyWing wireless audio IC (SST)

Digital ICs, Memory, and Programmable Logic

• WINNER: All-In-OneMemory (SST)
• MirrorBit Quad flash (Spansion)
• Z-RAM memory IP (Innovative Silicon)

Microcontrollers and Cores

• Flexis QE128 microcontrollers (Freescale Semiconductor)
• WINNER: LPC2478 ARM-based microcontroller (NXP Semiconductors)
• 74K core (MIPS Technologies)
• XC886 microcontroller (Infineon)

Multicore Microprocessors

• WINNER: QX9650 Core 2 Extreme processor (Intel)
• Storm-1 SP16HP Stream Processor (Stream Processors)
• TILE64 processor (Tilera)

EDA (Digital IC Design Tools)

• Amber Analyzer timing-analysis tool (CLK Design)
• WINNER: Calibre nmOPC optical-proximity-correction tool (Mentor Graphics)
• Certitude functional-qualification tool (Certess)
• PowerPro CG power-optimization tool (Calypto Design Systems)

EDA (PCB, FPGA, and Custom IC Tools)

• 360 EC-FPGA equivalence checker (OneSpin Solutions)
• WINNER: Sentinel-CPM power- and signal-integrity tool (Apache Design Solutions)
• SolidoSTAT statistical-variation tool (Solido Design Automation)

Boards, Modules, and Peripherals

• Maxon compact drive (Maxon)
• M5e-Compact RFID engine (ThingMagic)
• WINNER: 9014 CompactRIO controller (National Instruments)

Software

• Graphics library (Microchip Technology)
• LabView 8.5 (National Instruments)
• WINNER: Mobilinux 5.0 (MontaVista)
• Robotics Studio (Microsoft)

Development Kits

• EDK Version 9.2 development kit (Xilinx)
• WINNER: eZ430-RF2500 wireless-development tool (Texas Instruments)
• Nios II evaluation kit (Altera)

Power Sources

• CAR2500 front end/rectifiers (Cherokee)
• WINNER: ZY8160 60A point-of-load converter (Power-One)

Sensors

• ADIS16355 six-degrees-of-freedom sensor (Analog Devices)
• WINNER: Image-sensor technology (Kodak)
• OptiML wafer-level camera (Tessera Technologies)

Passive Components and Interconnect

• WINNER: Epic thin-film-resistor chip (Vishay)
• I-Trac backplane interconnect (Molex)
• Silicon potentiometer with tunable TCR (Microbridge)

Test & Measurement (Power Technology)

• WINNER: N6705A dc-power analyzer (Agilent)
• Tesla power-wafer probe (Cascade Microtech)

Test & Measurement (General Purpose)

• DSA70000 digital serial analyzer (Tektronix)
• 80SJNB serial-data-analysis software (Tektronix)
• 4X4 MIMO RF-test system (Keithley)
• WINNER: WaveExpert 100H sampling oscilloscope (LeCroy)

Best Contributed Article

• Applying solenoids: Flying blind is not recommended (Timothy G Morrill, Raytheon)
• WINNER: Choose capacitor types to optimize PC sound quality (Kymberly Schmidt, Maxim Integrated Products)
• Comparing dc/dc converters' noise-related performance (Robert Marchetti, Vicor)
• Designing instrumentation circuitry with rms/dc converters (Jim Williams, Linear Technology)
• User-friendly model simplifies Spice op-amp simulation (Ray Kendall, Intuitive Research and Technology)