EDN's 17th Annual Innovation Awards Nominations Officially Open.BOSTON -- Nominations are now open for EDN's 17th Annual Innovation Awards. These awards honor the industry's most outstanding engineering professionals and products. We will be accepting nominations until November 22, 2006. Please visit www.edn.com/innovation for nomination information. Our 2007 categories include Innovator(s) of the Year, Analog and Power ICs, Application-Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), Digital ICs, Processors, 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. Tools and ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. Technologies, Embedded-system Technologies, Passive components, Power supplies, Software, and Test and Measurement systems and boards. Please visit www.edn.com/innovation for more details on our categories. "The EDN Innovation Awards are a unique contribution to the electronics industry," stated John Schirmer, Group Publisher, EDN, Electronic Business, and Electronic News. "We recognize the true innovation of the people, products, and technologies within the electronics industry." "Throughout the 16 years of the Innovation Awards, the program has uncannily yielded winners that would later prove incredibly significant. Examples include DSPs, MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. sensors, flash memory, and programmable logic See PLD. - all winners long before achieving broad success," added Maury Wright, editor-in-chief of EDN. "We're especially excited about our program this year as we celebrate 50 years of EDN and all of the innovation we've chronicled throughout our history." Previous award winners have included, but are not limited to, Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Analog Devices, National Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, National Instruments, and Silicon Laboratories. We are proud to announce that Avnet Electronics Marketing has returned this year as the official platinum sponsor of the 17th annual Innovation Awards. About EDN's Innovation Awards Now in their 17th year, the EDN Innovation Awards honor the people, products, and technologies that have shaped the electronics industry over the past year. In addition to recognizing the innovators of today, the program also nurtures the award-winning designers of tomorrow through an annual contribution to engineering education. EDN donates a portion of the proceeds from the Innovation Awards ceremony to the engineering university of the Innovator of the Year's choice. You can find complete information on the EDN Innovation Awards at www.edn.com/innovation About EDN Known as the "Voice of the engineer," Waltham, MA-based EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN Australia, EDN China, EDN Japan, and EDN.com. EDN is published by Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. (www.reedbusiness/us.com), the largest business-to-business publisher in the U.S. and a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? and ENL Noun 1. ENL - an inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face erythema nodosum leprosum Hansen's disease, leprosy - chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical ) - a world-leading publisher and information provider operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business industry sectors. |
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