Best Electronic Design of 2006 Announced

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In its annual "Best Electronic Design" issue, the editors of Electronic Design magazine have announced their choices for 2006.

"The pace of innovation continued at an astonishing rate in 2006," said Mark David, editor-in-chief of Electronic Design magazine. "The 'Best Electronic Design' issue highlights some of the technologies most significant to advancing electronic design, and it also gives us the opportunity to honor some of the outstanding end-product designs produced in the last year."

The field of candidates began with the hundreds of briefings and demonstrations Electronic Design's editors participate in each year. Looking at the key technologies covered in the magazine's pages and online during the year together with reader feedback, the technical editors chose the products and solutions they feel had the greatest impact on design this year.

Also named are the Best Designs in leading vertical markets. Nominations were solicited from readers and editors selected the winners. The year has proven to be a solid one for technology innovation, with demand for new electronics strong across all the top markets, particularly for products like Consumer Design of the Year winner Nintendo for it's Wii game console.

For complete coverage of all the winners, go to http://www.electronicdesign.com/bestof2006

Best Electronic Design 2006 Winners:

Technology Of The Year Categories:

• Analog:

  • Xignal 640-MHz	CMOS continuous-time delta-sigma ADC
    Analog Devices	ADuM524x planar-transformer-based coupler
    Sharp	double-sampling delta-sigma ADC
    Linear Technology	LTC2484 delta-sigma ADC
    Texas Instruments	ADS8422 SAR ADC
    Silicon Laboratories	Si884x 2.1-GHz RF coupler
    Advanced Linear Devices	ALD114904 and ALD114804 MOSFETs
    Intersil	ISL55100A pin-electronics driver/window comparators

  Digital:

  • SiliconSystems	SiliconDrive Secure
    Certicom	Certicom Security for Silicon Design Protection
    CSEM Microelectronics	ViSe vision sensor

  Sensors:

  • Toshiba	ET8EF6/8-AS CMOS image sensors
    Capella	CMOS3000/3200 Filtron ambient light sensors
    OmniVision Technologies	OV7720 CameraChip
    Foveon	X3 image sensor
    Rice University	Single-photon camera

  EDA:

  • CoWare Virtual Platform

  Test:

  • National Instruments	LabVIEW 8.20
    Tektronix	RSA6100A

  Embedded:

  • Luminary Micro	Stellaris ARM MCU
    Texas Instruments	eZ430-F2013 development kit

  Power:

  • Tesla Motors

    Roadster electric car

  Wireless:

  • SiGe Semiconductor

    SE4120L GPS/Galileo receiver

Design Of The Year Categories:

• Computers:

  • Intel	Core Duo 2 Extreme QX6700
    ATI	Radeon X1950XTX Crossfire display adapter
    Viewsonic	N2751w HDTV monitor
    Seagate	Barracuda 7200.10
    Hewlett Packard	DVD 940i
    Enermax	Galaxy 1000W
    BFG Technologies	Physics board
    Ageia	PhysX chip

  Automotive:

  • Toyota/Aisin Seiki Co.

    Advanced Parking Guidance System

  Communications:

  • Xirrus

    XS-3900 Wireless LAN Array

  Consumer:

  • Nintendo

    Wii game console

  Industrial:

  • Perpetuum

    PMG7 microgenerator

  Military:

  • Foster Miller

    Talon SWORDS armed reconnaissance robot

  Medical:

  • SmartPill Corporation

    pH.p capsule

About Electronic Design
The Authority on Emerging Technologies for Design Solutions, Electronic Design magazine and its website, http://www.electronicdesign.com reach the design engineers and engineering managers who put new technology and products to work in today's most dynamic markets. A Penton Media (OTCBB:PTON) publication issued bi-weekly to a circulation of 141,000, Electronic Design delivers the largest print circulation of any design magazine serving the electronics OEM.