Here is a list of the most significant products introduced in the past 12 months, chosen by qualified readers of EE Times and eeProductCenter. Electronic balloting was conducted quarterly, based on a list of 10 nominees submitted to readers by expert editors.
Analog ICs:
Alliance Semiconductor Corp.
ASM3P2853A frequency clock generator
Ethertouch Ltd.
AD7103 ASIC sensing chip
Linear Technology Corp.
LTC225x A/D converter family
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.
MAX9217 serializer and MAX9218 deserializer
National Semiconductor Corp.
LMP7711, LMP7701, LPV511, LMV791, LMV651 and LPV7215 op amps
Texas Instruments Inc.
TPA3200D1 Class-D digital amplifier
Interconnect, passives and electromechanical products:
Avago Technologies Pte.
ADNS-3040 LED-based optical mouse sensor
Avago Technologies Pte.
ADNS-6010 laser navigation sensor
Avago Technologies Pte. and Lumileds Lighting LLC
Envisium Power PLCC-4 surface-mount LEDs
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
OSTAR LED
Stackpole Electronics Inc.
HPC series surface-mount power resistors
Taiyo Yuden (U.S.A.) Inc.
2.2-microfarad multilayer ceramic capacitor
Power
Excelsys Technologies Ltd.
Xcite series of ac/dc power supplies
Infineon Technologies AG
CoolMOS CS Server power MOSFETs
Potentia Semiconductor Corp.
PS-2606 power system controller IC
Texas Instruments Inc.
TPS40100 synchronous dc/dc buck controller with margining functions
Valence Technology Inc.
IFR18650p lithium-ion power cell
Valere Power Inc.
Line Power Solutions battery backup systems
RF/Microwave
Anadigics Inc.
AWT6310 and AWT6314 dual-band InGaP power amplifiers
Analog Devices Inc.
Othello-G radio chip for GSM/GPRS communications
California Eastern Laboratories
UPG2151T5K GaAs switch IC
Microtune Inc.
MT2260 dual-band, ultralow-power tuner
Texas Instruments Inc.
Dolphin wireless UART chip set for frequency-hopping spread-spectrum systems
Zarlink Semiconductor Inc.
ZL10039 device single-chip satellite tuner
Test/Measurement:
Agilent Technologies Inc.
6000 Series 100-MHz portable oscilloscopes
Agilent Technologies Inc.
6000 Series 100-MHz portable oscilloscopes (additional models)
CWAV
USBee AX-Standard, AX-Plus and AX-Pro programmable oscilloscope test pod
Fiberbyte Pty. Ltd.
USB-inSync data-acquisition modules
LeCroy Corp.
WaveExpert 9000 and SDA 100G 100-GHz-bandwidth oscilloscopes
Tektronix Inc.
TDS6000C and P7313 real-time oscilloscope and Z-Active probe
Logic, interface and programmable logic:
Altera Corp.
Cyclone II EP2C70 field-programmable gate array
Altera Corp.
FPGA-based video-over-IP reference design
Impulse Accelerated Technologies Inc.
CoDeveloper C-to-hardware design tool for Virtex-4
Lattice Semiconductor Corp.
Mentor Graphics Precision RTL synthesis tool
Orange Tree Technologies Ltd.
SystemCrafter Package for SystemC development work
Xilinx Inc.
Virtex-4 FX20 and FX60 field-programmable gate arrays
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