21st annual EDN Innovation Awards

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EDN named the winners of the 21st annual EDN Innovation Awards on May 2, 2011, at an awards ceremony in San Jose, CA.
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Brad Doerr, Steve Draving, Dave Dascher, Nick Fernandez, Ryan Carlino, Steve Tursich, and Dave Gissel, Infiniium design team, Agilent Technologies

. M4 B+ g/ B( C% S' ~; XMario Paniccia, Intel Corp

# v1 h; k7 }" {  I6 pPaul Darbee, DarbeeVision Inc

* F+ k: s( [% g3 \: S. D4 }/ CRobert Dobkin and Tom Hack, Linear Technology
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ACP F-7024 and ACP F-7025 bandpass filters, Avago Technologies

' T3 d+ g$ O# z6 `EM773 energy-metering IC, NXP Semiconductors
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FastRTV channel change acceleration technology, Broadcom Corp
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LPTM10-1247 and LPTM10-12107 platform managers, Lattice Semiconductor

Transcede 4000 baseband processor, Mindspeed Technologies
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VDAP1000, Integrated Device Technology
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BeMicro embedded softwaredevelopment kit, Arrow Electronics
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! ?, L  ~2 |  {5 w# y, DRapid Deployment Program for Android, MontaVista Software

Tower System, Freescale Semiconductor

Virtex-6 FPGA DSP-development kit, Xilinx



Flash controllers based on MSP (Memory Signal Processing) technology, Anobit
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SmartFusion intelligent mixedsignal FPGAs, Microsemi Corp

TXP1000 transcoders, Octasic Inc



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PathFinder, Apache Design Solutions

SoftPatch for RocketVision, GateRocket Inc

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Crystal Touch multitouch projected capacitive touch panels, Ocular LCD Inc
mTouch Metal-Over-Capacitive touch-sensing technology, Microchip Technology Inc

mXT1386 and mXT616, Atmel CorpAMT303 rotary position encoder for brushless motors, CUI Inc

AS54xx 3D Hall magneticencoder IC, austriamicrosystems
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MPU-3000 microprocessor family of motion processors, InvenSense Inc
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EPC1010 GaN FET, Efficient Power Conversion Corp
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" B! j; `1 L' X8 H* C" ^, S* |LT 4180 virtual remote sense controller, Linear Technology
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& q( U' G" W+ g) MP2110 Powerharvester receiver, Powercast


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BSV-nano POL converter, Bellnix America Inc

N6781A two-quadrant source/measure unit for battery-drain analysis, Agilent Technologies

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2 X5 ^- q$ `0 D/ w( R3 t, IARM Cortex-M4 processor, ARM
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Kinetis 32-bit microcontrollers, Freescale Semiconductor

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Power Debugging Technology, IAR Systems
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Sentinel Network, Ridgetop Group Inc

StegAlyzerRTS (Steganography Analyzer Real-Time Scanner), Backbone Security
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Webench FPGA Power Architect, National Semiconductor


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PXI and AXIe test portfolio, Agilent Technologies
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3 T1 ?  _4 P* G2 QPXIe-5630 vector network analyzer, National Instruments
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4 N2 |0 z" H2 d* [SPARQ signal-integrity network analyzer, LeCroy Corp
2 u3 ^  d5 P; lTLA7SAxx Series logic protocol analyzer, Tektronix

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【臺北訊，2011年5月5日】 – 恩智浦半導體(NXP Semiconductors N.V.；NASDAQ：NXPI)為各位帶來捷報！在EDN 年度創新大獎的類比IC產品評選中，恩智浦 EM773 電能計量解決方案獲得此殊榮。EDN創新獎源自於矽谷，迄今已舉辦21屆。該獎項旨在表彰傑出半導體廠商的技術創新成就。不同於其他評選活動，EDN創新獎已獲得業界的高度認同，成為美國微電子領域的指標性獎項。

恩智浦獲獎產品EM773 是全球首款非計費式電能計量用32位元ARM解決方案，藉由功能強大的32位元Cortex-M0平臺，EM773不僅支援最高48 MHz工作頻率，同時具備小尺寸封裝和低成本矽元件的優勢，達成與傳統8位元/16位元MCU相同的成本。  

" j# c+ M" W9 REM773 突破傳統的計費概念，使系統設計人員可方便地將電能計量功能整合至各種類型設備中，為終端使用者提供更方便直觀的用電資訊。EM773為各種潛在應用帶來創新的思考，應用範圍涵蓋智慧插座、智慧電器、節能電子產品，以及住宅分電錶、工業分電錶，甚至是資料中心的機架式伺服器群集。

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(務20110506 18:47:10)該公司的APS-C格式1600萬畫素影像感測器贏得著名產業大獎

! K+ J* N5 r! y0 v1 j+ J9 \; Y5 UCMOS影像技術領域的領先創新廠商Aptina今天宣佈，其功能豐富的高性能APS-C格式1600萬畫素MT9H004影像感測器已贏得2010年EDN創新獎。1600萬畫素MT9H004影像解決方案利用了該公司在畫素方面的最新創新技術——Aptina™ DR-Pix™，因其具有在所有場景光照和ISO速度條件下能夠實現最大信噪比的獨特能力，獲得了《EDN》雜誌的認可，成為大獎贏家。EDN技術編輯Margery Conner在頒獎典禮上表示：「Aptina在感知視覺世界方面展現了傑出的創造力，實現了技術創新，是今晚當之無愧的贏家。」
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/ }. ]$ o3 Z* g4 I" L# V1 g* PAptina執行長David Orton表示：「Aptina的MT9H004影像感測器能夠贏得今年的EDN創新獎，我們感到非常榮幸，獲獎產品MT9H004影像感測器採用先進的DR-Pix技術，性能卓越，非其他感測器所能匹敵，能夠幫助客戶製造出性能出眾的相機。」
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- s$ k6 ^$ Y: L採用Aptina DR-Pix技術的Aptina MT9H004感測器
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為了滿足高階數位單眼相機（DSLR）和無反光鏡相機的性能和影像品質要求，設計人員需要這樣一種影像感測器：在較高ISO速度條件下能夠實現極低讀出雜訊，並且在較低ISO速度條件下能夠實現較高的全阱容量。透過增加一個畫素級雙轉換增益開關，Aptina DR-Pix技術在一種畫素設計中結合了兩種操作模式——在弱光場景中能實現更高敏感度和低讀出雜訊的高轉換增益模式；以及在明亮場景中能實現較大電荷處理容量的低轉換增益模式。

+ U. Q  y6 r& }' [' M4 a透過Aptina的MT9H004感測器，弱光條件下可以使信噪比增加5dB——幾乎相當於調節相機鏡頭的兩檔光圈所產生的效果，並且不會對強光環境下（最多可以實現47dB信噪比）的性能產生影響。MT9H004的其他功能包括以10fps速度實現1600萬畫素靜態影像擷取、即時取景視訊支援以及1080p/30fps高畫質視訊錄製。

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SAN JOSE, CALIF. – May 5, 2011 – Apache Design Solutions, a leading provider of innovative power analysis and optimization solutions that enable the design of power-efficient, high-performance, noise-immune ICs and electronic systems, today announced that PathFinder™ was selected as the winner of EDN Magazine’s Innovation of the Year Award in the EDA Tools and ASIC Technologies category. PathFinder is the industry’s first comprehensive electro-static discharge (ESD) physical integrity solution targeted at addressing the increasing reliability challenges faced by nanometer designs. The award winners were selected by a combination of EDN’s worldwide audience of electronics engineers and EDN’s editorial staff.
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“Apache is pleased to win this award for PathFinder’s innovative technology solution that provides both layout-based ESD sign-off at the full-chip level and Spice accurate transistor-level dynamic simulation for circuit level macros,” said Dr. Andrew Yang, chief executive officer of Apache Design Solutions. “Over the past eight years, five of our products have been selected as finalists, and three of them have taken top honors, including RedHawk for full-chip dynamic power integrity, CPM for chip-package convergence, and now PathFinder.”

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About PathFinder
PathFinder’s full-chip capacity and layout-based GUI environment enables designers to perform early prototyping, circuit optimization, and ESD sign-off for Human Body Model (HBM) and Machine Model (MM) events. Based on integrated modeling, extraction, and simulation capabilities, PathFinder addresses the limitations of manual design validation processes and methodologies by automating the process and enabling exhaustive testing of every device and wire that can potentially fail from an ESD event. PathFinder helps designers identify the most vulnerable area of the design to meet their ESD guidelines and improve product yield.

For circuit analysis of I/O, analog, and mixed-signal design, PathFinder also offers the industry’s only transistor-level dynamic ESD solution for validation of Charged Device Model (CDM) events. It efficiently simulates large-scale macros, including the impact of clamp’s snap-back characteristics, power/ground and substrate networks, and package parasitic with convergence property.
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To learn more about Apache’s EDN Innovation Award winners, PathFinder, RedHawk™ and CPM™, and the rest of Apache’s portfolio of products that help advance low-power innovation, visit us in booth #2448 at the upcoming Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 5-10, 2011, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Meet with our Power Team Experts to learn how Apache’s Power Budgeting, IP Integration, and Chip-Package-System (CPS) solutions can help meet your low-power requirements and reduce costs.