Electronic Design Announces 2009 Best Electronic Design Awards

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January 4, 2010 (New York, NY): Winners of the best technology, products and standards for 2009 were announced in Electronic Design’s annual Best Electronic Design issue. In addition, Electronic Design announced six more inductees into the Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame, which the publication founded in 2003.

Staff and contributing editors selected the award winners for the best technology, products and standards, while readers selected the best Idea for Design and Leapfrog stories published in the past 12 months. Readers also selected the Hall of Fame inductees from a list created by the editorial staff.

“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.”

The Best Electronic Design awards are segmented into editorial “beats” and 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 hardware and software and Mat Dirjish for components.

Contributing 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 1, 2009 issue of Electronic Design. Winners receive a Best Electronic Design logo, which they can post on their own Web site.

2009 Best Electronic Design Winners

Analog
Linear Technology
LT3092 constant- current-source

Power
EPRI
Report to NIST on the Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Roadmap

Communications
Wired
International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunications (ITU-T)
G.hn standard for home networking over powerline and other technologies

Wireless
Silicion Labs
Si2170 TV tuner

EDA
Mentor Graphics
Catapult C full-chip ESL synthesis

Synopsys
Lynx implementation platform

Calypto Design Systems
PowerPro MG power optimization for embedded SoC memory

Test & Measurement
LeCroy
WaveMaster 8zi scope

Agilent
PXA N9030 signal analyzer

Tektronix
RSA6120A spectrum analyzer

Computers
Intel
Nehalem CPU architecture