IEC Announces 2007 DesignVision Finalists Recognizing Best Tools and Products in Semiconductor Industry.IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission begins the New Year recognizing 2006's top innovations in electronic design; the first public announcement of DesignVision winners takes place at the end of the month in Santa Clara at DesignCon 2007 CHICAGO -- Giving tribute to pioneering developments judged as the most beneficial to the design engineering community, the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) today announced the finalists of the prestigious 2007 DesignVision Awards. IEC President John Janowiak stated, "Our DesignVision Awards honor those catalyzing positive change in high-technology, business, and academia, completely in line with the IEC's mission. We are delighted to announce the winners at this year's DesignCon in Santa Clara and share the best design advancements with the entire industry." Finalists were chosen from among a record-number of competing products by a panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
In the nine categories, the 2007 award finalists include the following companies and products respectively: 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. and IC Design Tools * Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Inc. - Cadence Space-Based Router * Novas Software, Inc. -- Siloti[TM] Visibility Enhancement (VE) family * Synopsys, Inc. -- PrimeTime VX Design Verification Tools * EVE -- ZeBu-UF4 * Liga Systems -- NitroSIM[TM] * OneSpin Solutions -- OneSpin 360 Module Verifier Interconnect Technologies and Components * Belden -- Belden 1304A/1305A CatSnakeTactical Cat 5e * Denali Software -- DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory PHY Interface (DFI See Direct foreign investment. ) Standard * TDK Corporation of America -- ESR ESR - Eric S. Raymond Controlled MLCCs PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. Design Tools * ASSET InterTech -- DFT Analyzer * Flomerics Inc. -- FloPCB for Allegro * PCB Libraries, Inc. -- IPC-7351A LP Wizard Semiconductors and ICs * Rambus -- Rambus' FlexPhase * Lattice Semiconductor -- LatticeECP2M 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. family * National Semiconductor -- LM3370 Multi-Channel Integrated Power Management Device * Mentor Graphics Corporation -- Calibre LFD Semiconductors and ICs (IP) * Stratosphere Solutions, Inc. -- StratoPro * Sun Microsystems -- OpenSPARC T1/UltraSPARC T1 Structured/Platform ASIC, FPGA, and PLD Design Tools * Altium Limited -- Altium Designer 6 * CoWare, Inc. -- CoWare Virtual Platform Product Family * Xilinx -- PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool (Version 8.2) System-Level Design Tools * Bluespec, Inc. -- ESL Synthesis Extensions for SystemC * Synplicity, Inc. -- Open IP Encryption Methodology * Chip Estimate -- InCyte Enterprise Test and Measurement Equipment * Agilent Technologies -- J-BERT with industry first built-in clock data recovery (CDR (1) See CD-R and extension. (2) (Call Detail Reporting) See call accounting. (3) (Common Data Rate) A standard sampling rate for digital video for 480i and 576i systems. The rate is 13.5 MHz. See ITU-R BT. ) * LeCroy -- SDA SDA abbr. specific dynamic action Serotonin dopamine antagonist (SDA) The newer second-generation antipsychotic drugs, also called atypical antipsychotics. 18000 * Probing Solutions -- PSI 2020HV * Tektronix, Inc. -- RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. 6100A Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer * Wavecrest -- SIA-4000 Signal Integrity Analysis Solution Winners will be announced at DesignCon on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at Noon in the theater of the Santa Clara Convention Center. Entrance is to the awards ceremony is complimentary with an Exhibits Plus Pass available at www.designcon.com/2007/registration/. Visit www.designcon.com/2007 for full information or contact Lisa Ann Reyes at lreyes@iec.org or +1-312-559-3325. About DesignCon DesignCon serves as the premier event for practicing engineers in the electrical design and semiconductor communities. Broadening the scope to address business as well as technical issues of the industry, DesignCon 2006 hosted 125 exhibiting companies and drew more than 5,000 industry professionals to register. This year's DesignCon will host more than 300 industry experts to speak in more than 100 educational tutorials, plenary panels, paper presentations, and sessions at DesignCon. Complementing the conference, more than 125 exhibitors are expected to take the floor exhibiting the latest technological developments. Visit www.designcon.com/2007. About the IEC A nonprofit organization, the IEC is dedicated to catalyzing technology and business progress worldwide in a range of high-technology industries and their university communities. Since 1944, the IEC has provided high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals, academics, and students. In conjunction with industry-leading companies, the IEC has developed an extensive, free, on-line educational program. The IEC conducts industry-university programs that have substantial impact on curricula. It also conducts research and develops publications, conferences, and technological exhibits that address major opportunities and challenges of the information age. More than 70 leading high-technology universities are IEC affiliates, and the IEC handles the affairs of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association and Eta Kappa Nu Eta Kappa Nu (ΗΚΝ) is a national electrical and computer engineering honor society in the United States founded in October 1904 by Maurice L. Carr at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. , the honor society for electrical and computer engineers. The IEC also manages the activities of the Enterprise Communications Consortium. Visit www.iec.org. |
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