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

Mario Paniccia, Intel Corp
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Paul Darbee, DarbeeVision Inc

Robert Dobkin and Tom Hack, Linear Technology
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4 H8 G7 x  d- J! ]0 ]ACP F-7024 and ACP F-7025 bandpass filters, Avago Technologies

EM773 energy-metering IC, NXP Semiconductors

ISL59605 video equalizer, Intersil

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- \& d& P" q  `# ^4 ^FastRTV channel change acceleration technology, Broadcom Corp

LPTM10-1247 and LPTM10-12107 platform managers, Lattice Semiconductor

/ b1 {$ B2 u, qTranscede 4000 baseband processor, Mindspeed Technologies
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: E7 j% X( L6 zVDAP1000, Integrated Device Technology
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Xway Wave300 family, Lantiq North America
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) q/ s$ A' T1 L9 ^BeMicro embedded softwaredevelopment kit, Arrow Electronics
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Rapid Deployment Program for Android, MontaVista Software

/ N4 J( F; m& k! XTower System, Freescale Semiconductor

Virtex-6 FPGA DSP-development kit, Xilinx



4 B& w! F; H( A& U2 A$ QFlash controllers based on MSP (Memory Signal Processing) technology, Anobit

& _, x3 w5 z9 }3 S! aMobile XDR, Rambus Inc

% v- ]' `. {8 V- {" w. qSmartFusion intelligent mixedsignal FPGAs, Microsemi Corp
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TXP1000 transcoders, Octasic Inc
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& T& |# g1 x' Q+ o$ WCalibre InRoute, Mentor Graphics
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0 v3 i7 `: H  `6 J- @' YPathFinder, Apache Design Solutions

SoftPatch for RocketVision, GateRocket Inc
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360-Degree Wrap-Around Technology, Fujitsu Semiconductor

Crystal Touch multitouch projected capacitive touch panels, Ocular LCD Inc
mTouch Metal-Over-Capacitive touch-sensing technology, Microchip Technology Inc
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* [7 j! \8 c4 h& s% PmXT1386 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

MT9H004 image sensor with DR-Pix technology, Aptina
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' A6 y4 V& ~& E* f6 q8 Y4 iCAPZero, Power Integrations

0 s; V8 x+ [/ w8 X& ]% PEPC1010 GaN FET, Efficient Power Conversion Corp

LT 4180 virtual remote sense controller, Linear Technology

P2110 Powerharvester receiver, Powercast

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5 @1 R- x, j8 l" DBMR454 dc/dc converter family, Ericsson Power Modules
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" y+ {9 U# c! |, V' X( {) r! JBSV-nano POL converter, Bellnix America Inc
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N6781A two-quadrant source/measure unit for battery-drain analysis, Agilent Technologies

Novum digital modules, CUI Inc

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2 X, B9 w6 ~% M9 U/ c- q" @2010 Intel Core processor family, Intel Corp

4 D% H1 E% y# _; s* C2 iARM Cortex-M4 processor, ARM
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- n, `$ V, [1 \' R0 r/ o) N6 UKinetis 32-bit microcontrollers, Freescale Semiconductor

, m! j" Y  Y1 l; _2 tTMS320C6A8168 Integra DSP+ARM processor, Texas Instruments
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Sentinel Network, Ridgetop Group Inc
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& P1 Q% x- ^- tStegAlyzerRTS (Steganography Analyzer Real-Time Scanner), Backbone Security
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. g2 W7 Y/ b( {! E4 LWebench FPGA Power Architect, National Semiconductor
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4 l# [) l1 M7 TPXI and AXIe test portfolio, Agilent Technologies
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PXIe-5630 vector network analyzer, National Instruments
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& ?& H* Q- F$ U. ^/ W. k8 nSPARQ signal-integrity network analyzer, LeCroy Corp
TLA7SAxx 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。
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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。  
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/ s2 P" A" a: e! e  S6 }EM773 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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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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1 ]' e) X4 W/ |1 L# E# ^“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.
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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.

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.