EDN's 19th Annual Innovation Awards

• WINNER: Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team (Altera)
• Glenn Woppman, president and CEO (Asset InterTech)
• Opus architecture design team (Octasic)
• SE2593A front-end module design team (SiGe Semiconductor)

Analog ICs

• WINNER: AD9272 eight-channel ultrasound receiver (Analog Devices)
• CLC1001 ultralow-noise amplifier (Cadeka Microcircuits)
• CS42L55 portable audio codec (Cirrus Logic)
• LMV1088 analog dual-input-microphone-array amplifier (National Semiconductor)

ADCs and DACs

• ADC12EU050 12-bit, octal ADC (National Semiconductor)
• DAC9881 18-bit DAC (Texas Instruments)
• MAX5661 single 16-bit DAC (Maxim Integrated Products)
• WINNER: SAM1610/05/00 12-bit ADCs (Samplify Systems)

RFICs

• 0150SC-1250M and 0405SC-1000M RF-power transistors (Microsemi)
• HVV1011-300 RF-power transistor (HVVi Semiconductors)
• WINNER: VMMK-2x03 RF amplifiers (Avago Technologies)

ASSPs

• WINNER: CX20562 USB speakers on a chip (Conexant)
• Snapdragon platform with custom CPU (Qualcomm)
• T1000 single-chip content-inspection processor (LSI)
• Z-Accel CC2480 2.4-GHz ZigBee wireless-network processor (Texas Instruments)

Logic and Interface ICs

• WINNER: 26 series SQI (serial quad I/O) (SST)
• ActiveConnect GV8502 multimedia-connectivity solution (Gennum)
• SN5000A hybrid two-in-one tuner module (Xceive)

Memory

• NANDrive family (SST)
• SiliconDrive II Blade SSD (SiliconSystems)
• WINNER: X-25E Extreme SATA SSD (Intel)
• XDR2 memory architecture (Rambus)

Programmable Logic and Fast-turnaround ASICs

• Nextreme-2 45-nm ASICs (eASIC)
• WINNER: Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA (Altera)
• Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs (Xilinx)

EDA: Design Analysis

• WINNER: Incisive Palladium DPA (dynamic-power analysis) (Cadence Design Systems)
• JasperGold formal-verification tool (Jasper Design Automation)
• Olympus-SOC timing analyzer (Mentor Graphics)
• PowerArtist RTL tool (Sequence Design)

EDA: Design Creation and IP

• C-to-silicon compiler (Cadence Design Systems)
• Intelli DDR3 memory interface (Virage Logic)
• PowerOpt RTL tool (ChipVision Design Systems)
• WINNER: Zroute chip-level router with integral DFM analysis (Synopsys)

EDA: PCB, FPGA, and Mixed-signal/RF ICs

• Integrated Software Environment (ISE) 10.1 (Xilinx)
• WINNER: RF Design Solution (Mentor Graphics and Agilent Technologies)
• Simics Hybrid Simulation solution (Virtutech)
• Titan platform (Magma Design Automation)

EDA: System-level Synthesis

• Matlab/Simulink synthesis technology (Altera)
• WINNER: Simscape (The MathWorks)
• Webench power designer (National Semiconductor)
• Webench sensor designer (National Semiconductor)

Embedded-system Technologies

• WINNER: Mirasol displays (Qualcomm)
• PowerBlock 50 computer (Mercury Computer Systems)
• Single-Board RIO (National Instruments)
• USB1032 StackableUSB host microcontroller (Micro/sys)

Microcontrollers

• WINNER: PIC32 32-bit microcontroller (Microchip Technology)
• Piccolo microcontrollers (Texas Instruments)
• R32C/111 series microcontrollers (Renesas Technology)
• Xmega microcontrollers (Atmel)

Microprocessors

• EP80579 integrated processor (Intel)
• LPC3130 ARM9 microcontroller (NXP Semiconductors)
• MIPS32 1004K coherent-processing system (MIPS Technologies)
• WINNER: OMAP35x applications processor (Texas Instruments)

Passive Components and Sensors

• WINNER: ADXL001 iMEMS shock and vibration sensor (Analog Devices)
• LX1973B wide-dynamic-range light sensor (Microsemi)
• MPR03x proximity-sensor controllers (Freescale Semiconductor)
• OLED SmartSwitch (NKK Switches)

Battery ICs

• bq27500 system-side impedance-track battery-fuel-gauge IC (Texas Instruments)
• LTC6802 battery-stack monitor (Linear Technology)
• WINNER: MC3467x Li-ion-battery-charger ICs (Freescale Semiconductor)

Power-controller ICs

• WINNER: ADP1043 digital-power controller (Analog Devices)
• PX3560 digital multiphase controller (Primarion)

Power ICs: Drivers

• AAT1282 2A flash-driver IC (AnalogicTech)
• MAX16826 four-string LED driver (Maxim Integrated Products)
• WINNER: SA306-IHZ motor-drive IC (Cirrus Logic)

Power ICs: General Converters

• WINNER: FAN5355 800/1000-mA, 3-MHz buck converter (Fairchild Semiconductor)
• IRS2530D DIM8 IC dimming electronic ballast (International Rectifier)
• LTC3642 50-mA synchronous step-down converter (Linear Technology)
• Simple Switcher controllers and Webench MOSFET-selection tool (National Semiconductor)

Power ICs: Modules

• EP53A8xQI 1000-mA, 5-MHz synchronous buck regulator (Enpirion)
• WINNER: LTM4606 ultralow-EMI, 6A dc/dc mModule (Linear Technology)

Power Semiconductors

• WINNER: Electronic-current limiter (Bourns)
• FSFR series Green FPS power switches (Fairchild Semiconductor)
• Gallium-nitride power-device platform (International Rectifier)
• TrenchFET Generation III power MOSFETs (Vishay)

Power Supplies

• 10-kVA Pulsar MX frame or UPS enclosure (Eaton)
• WINNER: BMR453 series dc/dc converters (Ericsson)
• Liebert NXL 250- to 400-kVA UPS (Emerson Network Power)

Software/Embedded Tools

• WINNER: Beagle Board Linux-development board (Beagleboard.org)
• SES (Smart Energy Suite) (Ember)
• XDS2000i in-socket development system (XtremeData)
• XtremeDSP video starter kit (Xilinx)

Oscilloscopes

• WINNER: 90000A series oscilloscope (Agilent Technologies)
• DPO3000 digital-phosphor oscilloscopes (Tektronix)
• PicoScope 9201 sampling oscilloscope (Pico Technology)
• WavePro 7Zi digital oscilloscope (LeCroy)

Instruments

• DPP12500A-4T four-tap digital pre-emphasis processor (Synthesys Research)
• MW90010A C-OTDR (Coherent OTDR) (Anritsu)
• PNA-X nonlinear vector-network analyzer (Agilent Technologies)
• PXI Express 6.6-GHz RF instruments (National Instruments)
• WINNER: RSA3000B series real-time spectrum analyzers (Tektronix)

Design for Test, Production Test, and Metrology

• AVS300CL wireless metrology tool (CyberOptics Semiconductor)
• WINNER: Cover-Extend technology (Agilent Technologies)
• ProVision boundary-scan-development-tool suite (JTAG Technologies)

Best Contributed Article

• "USB battery-charger designs meet new industry standards" (Takashi Kanamori and George Paparrizos, Summit Microelectronics)
• "Boost efficiency for low-cost flyback converters" (John Betten and Brian King, Texas Instruments)
• "Designing a short-range RF link into a consumer-electronics product" (Eric Welch, Keyspan)
• WINNER: "High-voltage, low-noise dc/dc converters" (Jim Williams, Linear Technology Corp)
• "Lithium-ion-battery-charging IC powered by charge-transfer, control innovations" (Randy Torrance, Chipworks)