Annual Awards Program to Take Place April 1, During EE Live!
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2014 — (PRNewswire) —SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/-- UBM Tech, which connects the electronics engineering community with essential business and technical insight, today announced the finalists for the 2014 ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards. The awards program honors the people and companies behind the technologies and products that are changing the world of electronics. The awards ceremony where winners are announced will take place on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose during EE Live! 2014, the industry's largest and most comprehensive electronics technology conference and expo in the United States.
"Our finalists this year are a very compelling group, and represent the creativity and innovation behind some of the most radical improvements taking place across all electronics categories," said Patrick Mannion, VP, Brand Director, UBM Tech, Electronics. "We wish all nominees the best of luck."
Following are the 2014 ACE Awards finalists:
NOMINATION-BASED CATEGORIES
Company of the Year
- Aquantia
- Cadence Design Systems
Design Team of the Year
- Advanced Micro Devices
AMD Mainstream APU ("Kabini") Team - Agilent Technologies
RF Device PXI Test Solution Design Team - Altera Corporation; Micron Technology
HMC Stratix V Interoperability Team - Stratos Product Development
Stratos Product Development, as design partner to Global Good and Intellectual Ventures Labs - TE Connectivity
Automotive Team
Energy Technology Award
- Atmel
SAM4Cx Platform (AKA, Atmel's Smart Energy Platform) - Epec Engineered Technologies
ECplus™ Refrigeration Motor - Maxim Integrated
MAX78700/MAX78615 Isolated Energy Measurement Chipset - Rambus Inc.
A19 LED Bulb - Xilinx
LocalGrid DataFabricTM Architecture, enabled by Xilinx® Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoCs - Zentrum Mikroelekronik Dresden AG (ZMDI)
ZSSC1956 Intelligent Battery Monitoring Solution
Executive of the Year
- Advanced Micro Devices
Lisa Su, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Business Units - Introspect Technology
Dr. Mohamed Hafed, CEO - Rambus Inc.
Ronald Black, CEO - Spansion
John Kispert, CEO - TE Connectivity
Rob Shaddock, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Innovator of the Year
- Maxim Integrated
David Andeen - Novati Technologies
David Anderson - Sol-Chip Ltd.
Dr. Shani Keysar
Internet of Things Technology, Service, or End Application of the Year
- Freescale Semiconductor
Kinetis minis, the world's smallest 32 bit ARM based microcontrollers - Hillcrest Labs
SH-1 sensor hub - HZO, Inc.
HZO WaterBlock - Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc.
Qualcomm AllPlay™ Smart Media Platform - Texas Instruments
SimpleLink(TM) CC3000 BoosterPack for Wi-Fi - Xively, a subsidiary of LogMeIn
Xively Cloud Services
Marketing Team of the Year
- Altera Corp
Stratix 10 FPGA and SoC Marketing Team - CSR
CSR uEnergy - Mouser Electronics
Kevin Hess & Mouser Marketing Team - Applications & Technologies sites - ProSoft Technology Inc.
ProSoft Technology Commercial Marketing Team - TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity Marketing Team: "Let's Create Something Brilliant Together" - Zentrum Mikroelekronik Dresden AG (ZMDI)
Global ZMDI Marketing and Communications
Open Source Hardware Platform or Application of the Year
- BeagleBoard.org
BeagleBone Black - Adapteva
Parallela - Seagate
Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform - SECO
UDOO
STEM Impact Award, presented by ECIA
- Altera Corp.
- Avnet
- Mouser Electronics
- National Instruments
- Tektronix
- Xilinx
Ultimate Products - Analog IC's
- Analog Devices
AD7960 18-bit PulSAR® A/D converter - Maxim Integrated
MAX31850 and MAX31851: Cold-junction compensated, 1-Wire thermocouple-to-digital converters - Sendyne
Sendyne SFP100 Current, Voltage and Temperature Measurement IC with Internal Coulomb Counter; Part Number SFP1001ASTZA - Silicon Labs
Si50x CMEMS Oscillator - SiTime
SiT15xx 32 kHz MEMS Oscillators - Texas Instruments
LDC1000 Inductance-to-Digital Converter
Ultimate Products - Development Kits
- Agilent Technologies
Agilent U5340A FPGA Development Kit for High-Speed Digitizers - Altera Corp
Cyclone V SoC Development Kit - CSR
CSR uEnergy® Starter Development Kit DK-CSR1010-10169 - GizmoSphere
Gizmo Explorer Kit GZMOKT_4_2013_1 - Inforce Computing
IFC6410 Snapdragon single-board computer
Ultimate Products - LEDs & Lighting
- Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
A8517 and A8522 Wide Input Voltage, Fault Tolerant, Independently Controlled Multi-Channel LED Driver ICs with I2C interface - LED Engin, Inc
LuxiTune dimmable LED light engine - Marvell Technology
88EM8511 LED Driver - Power Integrations
LYTSwitch-0 LED-Driver ICs for Low-Power LED Bulbs
Ultimate Products - Logic/Interface/Memory
- Inphi Corporation
JEDEC .95 Compliant DDR4 Register Part #: iDDR4RCD-GS02 - Maxim Integrated
DS28E35 DeepCover Secure Authenticator - Memoir Systems
Renaissance for Datacom - NXP Semiconductors
AXP - Rambus Inc.
R+ LPDDR3 Memory Architecture Solution - Silicon Image
SiI8620 MHL 3.0 transmitter IC, the SiI9394 MHL 3.0-to-HDMI 2.0 bridge IC, the SiI6031 MHL 3.0 multimedia switch IC and the Sil9679 MHL 3.0 receiver IC
Ultimate Products - Passives, Interconnects and Electromechanical
- AVX
High Voltage SMD Tantalum Polymer Capacitor TCJ series - Harwin Inc
Gecko hi-rel 1.25mm connector system - Littelfuse, Inc.
Biased SIDACtor Tertiary Protection Thyristor (SDP0240T023G6) - Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Igniter Chip (MEPIC) Resistor - Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
FRFC Ultra High Precision Z-1 Foil Flip Chip Resistor
Ultimate Products – Power
- Agilent Technologies
Agilent N2820A Series High-Sensitivity, High Dynamic Range Current Probes - Ericsson Power Modules
Ericsson PKM-NH platform - International Rectifier
IR Gen8 IGBT technology platform - Intersil
ZL8800 power management IC - MACOM (M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc.)
90W GaN in Plastic Power Transistor (MAGX-000035-0900P) - Microchip
Digitally Enhanced Power Analog Synchronous Buck DC/DC Controller/MCP19111 - Vicor Corporation
Configurable VI Chip® PRM® Modules
Ultimate Products - Processors - FPGAs, MCU's, Microprocessors, SoCs
- Freescale Semiconductor
Kinetis KL02 CSP, MKL02Z32CAF4R - Silicon Labs
EFM32 Zero Gecko MCUs - Texas Instruments
TI's C2000™ Piccolo™ F2806xF MCUs with InstaSPIN™-FOC motor control technology - Tilera Corporation
TILE-Gx72 - Xilinx
Zynq®-7100 All Programmable SoC - XC7Z100
Ultimate Products - Reference Designs
- Altera Corp
Altera PowerSoC Reference Designs - Analog Devices
JESD204B Xilinx Transceiver Debug Tool - Freescale Semiconductor
MC33812 / S12P Small Engine Control Reference Design (KIT33812ECUEVME) - Texas Instruments
Gas Sensor Platform with Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) - Texas Instruments
Smart Data Concentrator
Ultimate Products - Sensors
- Sand 9
TM361 Temperature Sensing MEMS Resonator - Sensirion AG
Humidity and Temperature Sensor SHTC1 - Silicon Labs
Si701x/2x Relative Humidity and Temperature Sensors
Ultimate Products - Software
- Altera Corporation
Altera SDK for OpenCL - Altium Inc.
- Altium Designer 14 & Team Configuration Center
- Intelligent Product Solutions
ENTERVISE Part No. 100 - Intersil
PowerNavigator graphical user interface - Mentor Graphics
Tessent Hybrid TestKompress/LogicBIST - Xilinx
Vivado IP Integrator
Ultimate Products - Test and Measurement Systems and Boards
- Agilent Technologies
Agilent U5303A PCIe 12-bit High-Speed Digitizer with On-Board Signal Processing - Agilent Technologies
RF Device PXI Test Solution: M9391A VSA, M9381A VSG, and X-Series measurement applications - Cascade Microtech, Inc.
CM300 Probe System, CM300-F - Keithley Instruments, Inc.
Model 2450 Advanced Touchscreen SourceMeter® SMU Instrument - Rigol Technologies
DS1000Z Digital Oscilloscope
Ultimate Products - Wireless/RF
- Analog Devices
AD9361 RF Agile Transceiver - Ethertronics
EtherChip 2.0™ EC2A011 - Redpine Signals
Redpine Signals' RS9113 M2MCombo™ chipset - Tektronix
70000 Arbitrary Waveform Generator - The MathWorks
LTE System Toolbox - Wilocity
WiGig chipset - WIL6100
A panel of EE Times and EDN editors as well as independent judges chose the finalists and winners. Judging took place from January 27, 2014 – February 24, 2014.
A panel of EE Times and EDN editors also selected winners in additional categories, which included Jim Williams Contributor of the Year, sponsored by Linear Technologies, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. IEEE, through their own judging process, will announce the winners for IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society and IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award at the awards ceremony in April.
All winners will be announced at the ACE awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 1 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose during EE Live! To purchase tickets to attend the ACE Awards, go to http://ubm-ace.com/tickets.php. Tickets are $199 per person or $1,850 for a table to seat ten.
For more information on the awards program, visit http://ubm-ace.com
The EE Times and EDN ACE Awards are generously sponsored by Executive Platinum sponsor Avnet Electronics Marketing, the Ultimate Products sponsor Mouser Electronics, category sponsors include STEM Impact award by ECIA Foundation, Design Team of the Year by IDT, Jim Williams, Contributor of the Year by Linear Technology and Association Media Sponsor by IEEE Spectrum.
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