Anadigm Receives Control Engineering 2003 Editors' Choice Award for AnadigmPID.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2004 Anadigm(R), the programmable analog company, has received a Control Engineering 2003 Editors' Choice Award for AnadigmPID, an EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. tool that fully automates the development of analog "proportional, integral, derivative" (PID (1) (Process IDentifier) A temporary number assigned by the operating system to a process or service. (2) (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) The most common control methodology in process control. ) control loops. As one of 35 products selected from among all new products featured in 2003 issues, AnadigmPID was chosen by Control Engineering editors according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. criteria such as service to the industry, technological advancement and market impact. "As an award winner, AnadigmPID is among the most significant innovations featured in Control Engineering over the past year," said Mark T. Hoske, editor-in-chief for Control Engineering and Control Engineering Online and E-newsletters at www.controleng.com. "We receive hundreds of new product releases each month, and only the best are highlighted in our publications. As a result, the products recognized with this award truly do represent the most notable achievements within the control industry." A fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. headquartered in Crewe, United Kingdom, Anadigm(R) provides field programmable analog array (FPAA FPAA Field-Programmable Analog Array FPAA Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association FPAA Fairmount Park Art Association (Philadelphia, PA) FPAA Fresh Produce Association of the Americas FPAA Fire Protection Association of Australia ) ICs and associated design software that greatly reduce the time, effort, and expense required to create analog interfaces in consumer audio, telecommunications and industrial applications. Using an FPAA as the silicon platform, the AnadigmPID tool automatically builds analog PID control loops on the basis of user-specified, top-level control coefficients. Eliminating the need to specify up to 50 discrete semiconductor and passive components, AnadigmPID reduces to a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
The implemented control subsystem can be controlled in real-time by the embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. processor, allowing users to build control loops whose coefficients adjust as the system moves from startup to quiescent. Benefits include a major improvement in system performance and new opportunities for electronics manufacturers to differentiate their systems with innovative control circuits. "Industrial control loops are one of several applications for which we've completely automated the design process with a prepackaged pre·pack·age tr.v. pre·pack·aged, pre·pack·ag·ing, pre·pack·ag·es To wrap or package (a product) before marketing. Adj. 1. solution that requires just a few high-level inputs to put a complex analog function under software control," said Brian Hodges, Anadigm(R) vice president of worldwide marketing. "We are very pleased that the merits of our technology and its market impact have been recognized by Control Engineering's knowledgeable editor panel." As a 2003 Editors' Choice Award winner, AnadigmPID also is eligible for selection as one of Control Engineering's eight 2003 Engineers' Choice Awards. These awards will be announced Feb. 24 during the awards ceremony at National Manufacturing Week. About Control Engineering For 50 years Control Engineering's mission has been to be the must-read information source for the global control, instrumentation and automation marketplace, providing more information on technology, products, news and trends in print and online than any other source for personal and plantwide productivity. Control Engineering North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. covers the $40 billion automation market in North America, which designs, maintains, and manages control/instrumentation systems, components, and equipment in manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. Visit Control Engineering online at www.controleng.com. About Anadigm(R) Anadigm(R) brings platform-based design to the analog world with pre-qualified software and hardware components that allow complex analog circuits to be implemented in an analog equivalent to the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. . Designed to implement signal conditioning Imagine feeding the output of a temperature sensor, which is in millivolts, to an Analog-to-digital converter to be processed. Is it possible for the Analog-to-Digital converter to process such a minute voltage amplitude? The answer is probably no. , filtering, data acquisition, closed-loop control, and other analog functions in a wide range of embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. , Anadigm(R) FPAAs are the first programmable analog ICs that can adapt on the fly to perform multiple functions, adjust to different environmental conditions or compensate for equipment aging. Founded in January 2000 as a venture-backed technology spinoff from Motorola, Anadigm(R) maintains U.S. headquarters in Campbell, Calif., and European headquarters in Crewe, United Kingdom. For further information, visit Anadigm(R) on the Web at www.anadigm.com. Anadigm(R) is a registered trademark of Anadigm(R). All other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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