Electronic Design Magazine's "Best Electronic Design 2010 Award"

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December 9, 2010 (New York, NY): Winners of the best technology, products and standards for 2010 were announced today in Electronic Design’s annual Best Electronic Design issue. Also announced are the year's best Ideas For Design and six new inductees into the Engineering Hall of Fame, which the publication founded in 2002.
! I: x' F- U, a, J" b$ C6 \* |& ]6 QStaff and contributing editors selected the award winners for the best technology, products and standards, while readers selected the best Ideas for Design published in the past 12 months. Readers also selected the Hall of Fame inductees from a list created by the editorial staff.
1 \; g4 Z' l6 |, l: m+ I“We rely on the expertise of our staff and contributing editors to ferret out the best of the many new technologies, products and standards that we have seen and wrote about over the past 12 months,” said Editor-in-Chief Joe Desposito. “These guys are in the trenches every day covering this industry and they know about all the great new innovations that have been introduced in the last year.”
, a# ^! K1 a6 s( y& _! WThe Best Electronic Design awards are segmented into editorial “beats” as well as vertical markets, such as industrial and medical. The editors are free to choose what they consider to be the best in these areas. The staff editors include Don Tuite for analog and power, Lou Frenzel for communications, David Maliniak for EDA and test and measurement, Bill Wong for digital and embedded and Mat Dirjish for components.
2 `- e# j4 X2 c3 `" w; DContributing Editor Roger Allan selected winners in the industrial and medical spaces, while Contributing Editor Randy Frank selected the automotive winners. Staff Editor Wong selected winners in computers, military and aerospace, and consumer electronics.
All winners are listed below with links to the articles that appeared in the December 9, 2010 issue of Electronic Design. Winners receive a Best Electronic Design logo, which they can post on their own Web site.

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2010 Best Electronic Design Winners
  a2 {) j( h  p" b7 s3 j. }- XAnalog & Mixed Signal
Intersil
The SLOC (Security Link over Coax) and MegaQ chip solution
Power
$ q. B  S& {# m. bNational Semiconductor
WEBENCH LED Architect
( e6 _7 W+ G) M% U. @Communications
3 c& J# I2 g2 d' CWired
IEEE
2 A2 S/ ?+ k/ \, D7 h+ |Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az standard
7 A" B$ |' V5 s# c* A, V; u/ FWireless
picoChip
8 Q; k. _& k5 P6 a! EPC333 multicore femtocell (baseband) on a chip SoC
# V- S6 ~: w, U, V2 y  [* X1 A- pDigital
Multicore
" n1 H9 n, ^' I* I. z2 l1 SNXP
5 A* o% U7 R! cLPC4000 dual core microcontroller
FPGA
1 n* p# W. L& x, m9 ZActel
6 u$ x' N5 G* F6 Q; @6 m" B+ i2 wSmartFusion FPGA
Embedded Microprocessor
9 h" E: l( S; i; i  ?1 EIntel
Atom Processor E600 Series

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EDA
. {" S1 M4 u  e( e: ]  @IC Layout
$ p0 N9 t' Z6 o6 y& n$ |& vSpringSoft
* b! S( d2 B- g% a9 XLaker Custom IC layout system
Design, Verification and Implementation Environment
9 n. }# @  z7 K' Z& M5 t* L6 T! ~Cadence
* ~. b6 V9 l4 f. Q( V9 _$ A0 `Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System 9.1
Static Timing Analyzers
% K0 V% W- P" l9 rMagma Design Automation
! h" h# g0 T3 C; P9 Q& S4 `+ oTekton static timing analyzer
Test & Measurement
2 B+ W& H& F9 c/ h4 COscilloscopes - TIE
LeCroy Corp.
WaveMaster 8Zi-A
: W, a  P" v1 p* G4 \* w2 @* C/ {Agilent Technologies
Infinium 90000 X-Series
Communications Test
, v  V( C4 B% e7 W- gNational Instruments
+ {- ?' |& f3 {* ^5 l, zNI PXIe-5630 Vector Network Analyzer
2 ], z6 _' t# r( cEmbedded
' m! U, {. h& u- X; G3 gCloud Computing
4 o3 P- m; I: W  qEurotech
3 A" b9 j0 K0 b+ A% c9 b& Z' JDevice Cloud
Development Tools
+ e1 s* u5 t5 a) }# sIAR
4 `, V' k; p, }$ x7 m$ u( DPower Debugging
6 {* Z' [" r  ~- ]0 s1 ^Parallel Programming
1 s/ S, B, _8 O. R+ ^% D4 iIntel
Parallel Studio
: S" S: R2 |+ ]7 hComponents
Interconnect Adapter
Ironwood Electronics
3 E" ]$ {/ t( {9 s( [DC-AX2000/RTAX2000S-01 Actel device converter
Interconnect Socket
5 o7 }) ]& q. n! k2 n3 ~* {Tyco Electronics
: Y5 x3 b$ N7 s  T% H. Q/ k. XType CM solderless LED socket  

! M9 Z6 F9 a+ Y6 k& U& I7 ~4 OPower Source
+ p: P! ?. U$ d# ~6 v2 y. P9 q; }/ `" sTDK-Lambda
DT100-C/DT150-C external ac/dc supplies
5 c( W" x  T; G3 UDisplay
+ n  c+ H0 c; L1 p" T# R$ ZOSRAM SYLVANIA
Opto PrevaLED
. B6 l1 \* l$ p& M! }Sensor
Omnivision Technologies
OV7735 VGA sensor

Motors & Motion Control   
; y( O: I3 D$ H  O$ H- A6 pNew Scale Technologies
$ X  n/ b; U$ L$ P. F- m+ n! pSQUIGGLE RV linear drive system

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Military & Aerospace
' B9 i/ I% N# f7 ]1 FVITA
OpenVPX standard
Automotive
Automotive ICs
0 H* V. n& y9 F6 j  q/ UInternational Rectifier
AUIRF7738L2 and AUIRF7737L2 Automotive DirectFET2
: f' m- o% F( v" j* UInfotainment
National Semiconductor
1 h& @, g2 R8 p; HDS90UH925Q serializer and DS90UH926Q deserializer
Car Audio
. u9 |8 C/ M  @# G4 S: ]STMicroelectronics
; e8 E* o4 r' lTDA7850LV audio power amplifier
Industrial
" Q! ~! s3 [: xMicrostaq
+ \% v$ c7 I! U% ~Ventillium MEMS HVAC valve from for industrial cooling and heating applications
Medical
Samplify
( ?) X7 F: V/ k1 z4 zAutofocus beamforming technology from for medical ultrasound imaging
Computers
! L; g9 W% m6 wMicroprocessor
  a( O) m4 M4 i7 Z0 |5 f( x4 CIntel Corp.
+ M5 H/ f: F# S; NWestmere
Hard Disk Drive
Seagate
4 e6 D  s/ Q" \1 F; j6 A, c- N- MEncrypted enterprise drives
, v, c3 E! ]# E, i$ NSolid State Storage
9 ^* |, t5 r9 R+ LLSI
5 V  y$ t; Q; Z9 L6 pWarpDrive SLP-300 Solid State PCI Express drive
  x4 l* S) R2 w0 qServer
5 k/ @* i1 G' JSupermicro
. u6 h/ e( v$ RSuperServer 6046T-TUF
8 M0 n8 t9 d4 x8 t5 TMotherboard
MSI Computer
6 }$ x3 `' b7 \. t4 _! _2 k$ mBig Bang Fuzion
Consumer Electronics
5 p/ ~  U2 ?* F/ @0 v+ }$ M- s+ l" xApple
0 h  q( f2 F6 }" o( LiPad

Best Ideas For Design
8 }# l9 |' i: R8 {6 XBest IFD
2 x# w" W" d# n9 t( m: t$ |Build Your Own Ultra-Low-Cost DC-DC Converter by Dwayne Reid
& e6 J4 L/ H; v6 z
IFD Runner-ups:
) A4 h: V  Z, Z' E! q" [2 A& f* R; pSimple Current Limiter Protects Open-Collector Circuit by Vishwas Vaidya
% O6 ?0 ]" w# a. ^' FNon-Inverting Level Shifter Requires Only One Op Amp, One Supply Voltage by Erik Matlin

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2010年12月21日台灣新竹 — 專業IC設計軟體全球供應商思源科技宣布，該公司的Laker™ 客製化自動佈局系統榮獲電子設計雜誌(Electronic Design Magazine)頒發2010最佳電子設計獎(Best Electronic Design 2010 Award)，表彰最新版Laker系統在客製化晶片數位佈局與繞線解決方案和OpenAccess (OA)相互操作性的成就。

- t& f  W! V  G6 m電子設計(Electronic Design)員工與特約編輯群從過去1年來推出的眾多新技術、產品與標準當中票選獲獎者。這個聲譽卓著的獎項著重於特定分類與垂直市場中的卓越工程與創新。思源科技的Laker產品獲得科技編輯David Maliniak評選為EDA IC佈局分類的優選，並登載於Electronic Design電子設計雜誌2010年12月9日出版的刊物上，祥細內容請參考以下網頁：http://electronicdesign.com/arti ... ificant-Muscle.aspx。
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