Dallas Semiconductor Named EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards Finalist.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2003

Dallas Semiconductor (Nasdaq:MXIM) has been selected from a field of hundreds of candidates as a finalist in the EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards competition. (EDN is published by Reed Electronics Group.) This exclusive awards program, sponsored by EDN Magazine, is dedicated to honoring truly outstanding engineering products in the electronics industry. Products/technologies qualifying for a 2002 EDN Innovation award must have been introduced and commercially marketed from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002. Seventeen product/technology areas were eligible for consideration in addition to the Innovator of the Year award. A panel of EDN's technical editors selected finalist products in each category. Maxim/Dallas Semiconductor had its DS80C400 network microcontroller selected in the processors category. A complete list of finalists in all categories will appear in the March 6, 2003 issue of EDN and on the EDN Access web site (www.edn.com).

The DS80C400 networked microcontroller integrates a high-speed 8051 core, a 10/100Mb Ethernet MAC, and a silicon software TCP IPv4/v6 stack. The DS80C400 can be connected directly to IP networks and costs less than $9.00, making it the most affordable solution for your embedded networking needs. Operating at up to 75MHz (xx MIPS), the DS80C400 provides ample speed to perform local control while also servicing network requests. In addition to the Ethernet MAC, the DS80C400 includes three synchronous/asynchronous serial ports that operate up to 18.75Mbps, a CAN2.0B controller, up to eight ports (64 I/O pins), and a 1-Wire(R) master to support multitiered networking.

Applications that require network connectivity such as MP3 audio players, web cameras, environmental controls, and industrial equipment can use the DS80C400's network interface for data collection, remote monitoring and control, as well as remote application updates. The resident silicon software on the chip supports Internet standards such as TCP, UDP, IPv4/v6, IGMP, ICMP, TFTP, and DHCP. Applications can be executed from local memory which can quickly be updated by a download from the network. A free download of the TINI (Tiny Internet Interfaces) run time environment, which includes a Java VM and libraries for network communications and many common I/O interfaces, is available from http://www.maxim-ic.com

Winners of the 2002 Innovation/Innovator of the Year Awards will be chosen by EDN's readers through an online ballot on the EDN Access Web site (www.edn.com). We encourage you to visit the EDN Web site to review the magazine's comments on the DS80C400 network microcontroller. Finalists will be honored and winning products will be announced at EDN's Innovation/Innovator Awards ceremony on April 22, 2003 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco and published in the May 1, 2003 issue of EDN. EDN, the premier design magazine of the electronics industry, is published by Reed Business Information. Headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN China, EDN Japan, and EDN Access, the only full-content, EOEM publication and Web site.

Visit the Maxim/Dallas Microcontrollers' website at www.maxim-ic.com/microcontrollers for reference design schematics and an interactive demonstration. The DS80C400 is available in a 100-pin LQFP. Prices start at less than $8.89 (1000-up, FOB USA).

Dallas Semiconductor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products, a leading international supplier of quality analog and mixed-signal products for applications that require real world signal processing. For more information, contact Maxim at 120 San Gabriel Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Telephone: [phone] or our URL: www.maxim-ic.com.

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