Anadigm Receives Control Engineering 2003 Engineer's Choice Award for AnadigmPID.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2004 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 implemented with Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAAs), has been honored with one of eight annual Engineer's Choice Awards chosen by the readers of Control Engineering, a monthly publication covering the $40 billion automation market in 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. . Control Engineering announced the eight Engineer's Choice Award winners in Chicago on Feb. 26 at the magazine's 17th annual awards reception. For the first time, subscribers to Control Engineering's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. edition were asked to choose the best technologies for automation, control, and instrumentation from among the 35 winners of the 2003 Control Engineering Editors' Choice Awards announced in the magazine's January 2004 issue. Selection criteria for both awards were service to the industry, technological advancement, and market impact. "The Engineer's Choice Award is particularly gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. as it comes from the ranks of design engineers who have recognized Anadigm(R)'s programmable analog ICs and EDA software as a real solution to vexing design problems," said Brian Hodges, vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Anadigm(R). "We are very proud with what we've achieved with AnadigmPID and of this recognition from members of the design community for which it was created." Using an Anadigm(R) 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 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 start-up to quiescent. Benefits include a major improvement in system performance and new opportunities for electronics manufacturers to differentiate their systems with innovative control circuits. The eight winners of Engineer's Choice Awards are featured in the March 2004 print edition of Control Engineering. The complete list is available at http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl. 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 plant-wide productivity. Control Engineering North America 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 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, U.K. 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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