_18th Annual EDN Innovation Award Online Ballot Innovator of the Year: Bill Dally (Stream Processors) Robert Dobkin (Linear Technology) 45-nm innovation team (Intel) Analog ICs: 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) 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) LT3080 adjustable LDO regulator (Linear Technology) Digital ASSPs: CC1111 wireless-sensor SOC (Texas Instruments) DS3641 security controller (Maxim Integrated Products) Ezairo 5910 hearing-aid IC (AMI Semiconductor) PEX 8600 PCI Express switches (PLX Technology) Network and Communication ICs: 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: 88DE2710 video-format converter (Marvell) MB86H52 video transcoder (Fujitsu Microelectronics) MelodyWing wireless audio IC (SST) Digital ICs, Memory, and Programmable Logic: All-In-OneMemory (SST) MirrorBit Quad Flash (Spansion) Z-RAM memory IP (Innovative Silicon) Microcontrollers and Cores: Flexis QE128 microcontrollers (Freescale Semiconductor) LPC2478 ARM-based microcontroller (NXP Semiconductors) 74K core (MIPS Technologies) XC886 microcontroller (Infineon) Multicore Microprocessors: QX9650 Core 2 Extreme processor (Intel) Storm-1 SP16HPStream processor (Stream Processors) TILE64 processor (Tilera) EDA (Digital-IC-Design Tools): Amber Analyzer timing-analysis tool (CLK Design) 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) 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) 9014 CompactRIO controller (National Instruments) Software: Graphics library (Microchip Technology) LabView 8.5 (National Instruments) Mobilinux 5.0 (MontaVista) Robotics Studio (Microsoft) Development Kits: EDK Version 9.2 development kit (Xilinx) eZ430-RF2500 wireless-development tool (Texas Instruments) Nios II evaluation kit (Altera) Power Sources: CAR2500 front end/rectifiers (Cherokee) ZY8160 60A point-of-load converter (Power-One) Sensors: ADIS16355 six-degrees-of-freedom sensor (Analog Devices) Image-sensor technology (Kodak) OptiML wafer-level camera (Tessera Technologies) Passive Components and Interconnect: Epic thin-film-resistor chip (Vishay) I-Trac backplane interconnect (Molex) Silicon potentiometer with tunable TCR (Microbridge) Test and Measurement (Power Technology): N6705A dc-power analyzer (Agilent) Tesla power-wafer probe (Cascade Microtech) Test and Measurement (General Purpose): DSA70000 digital serial analyzer (Tektronix) 80SJNB serial-data-analysis software (Tektronix) 4X4 MIMO RF-test system (Keithley) WaveExpert 100H sampling oscilloscope (LeCroy) Best Contributed Article: Applying solenoids: Flying blind is not recommended (Timothy G Morrill, Raytheon) 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) Please enter your name: Please enter your company name: Please enter your title: Please enter your email address: *Your email address will be used only to validate your ballot.