2007 EE Times Ultimate Products Finalists

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Each quarter, eeProductCenter editors select the top 10 products in seven technology areas written up on the Web site and submit these via electronic balloting to register users to place in rank order. At least 1000 unique responses/votes are required each quarter. The top two ranking products in each category every quarter automatically become EE Times ACE Awards Ultimate Products of the Year Finalists. The Winners are selected by more than 3500 unique votes from a pool of frequent registered users who have voted over the past year for Ultimate Products. EE Times ACE Awards Ultimate Products of the Year Winners will be announced at the gala event on April 3, 2007.
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Analog
Linear Technology - LTC3035EDDB
, V9 x. K& _+ r) i- A; yAnalog Devices - AD7142
Wolfson Microelectronics - WM8960 Class D Speaker Driver
$ i: {1 O7 A7 T  O$ Xe2v - 12-bit A/D delivers 500 Msamples/s
, @( x# _6 I% B. ]3 d, n! B7 Q" ETexas Instruments - ADS8422
National Semiconductor - ADC14155
- X8 O: F0 X# A) p$ wInphi - 13650DE and 13651DE
Melexis - MLX90614
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Processor/Memory
% G* r# ~  `$ E7 h& xTexas Instruments - MSP430 MCU
5 b0 `' v6 W- X: D* ~9 zSanDisk - iNAND
0 Q$ S8 w+ i: C5 R2 b1 HSeagate - Momentus 5400.3, 2.5-in hard disk drive
1 o7 h2 P& x4 R/ V9 L8 CLuminary Micro - Stellaris family of 32-bit microcontrollers
Analog Devices - ADSP-BF539 and ADSP-BF539F Blackfin digital signal processors
. Z9 P2 }' a5 J/ B  H8 h# U4 JFreescale Semiconductor - MC9RS08KA 8-bit RS08 MCU
- l, J  |1 D1 y. p7 wMicrochip Technology - PIC18F97J60
( C6 b( `/ |  V8 i1 eSTMicroelectronics - ARM7 MCUs

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, x# m! |2 t4 OSharp Microelectronics of the Americas - LQ035Q7DH06 3.5-inch QVGA thin-film transistor
Tyco - Z-PACK MAX connector
Avago Technologies - ADCC-3000 image sensor
AuthenTec - EntrePad 1610 Fingerprint Sensor
& B* U3 d0 I" Z2 c$ p: |" ?New Scale Technologies - SQUIGGLE motor
$ w& G: I& L2 `. g3 P  _! CSamsung - 3.5-inch LCD
Cree - 2-amp Zero Recovery rectifier
- z  I5 D6 e6 b" C3 VCapella - CM3200HS (High Sensitivity), CM3200 and CM3000 ambient light sen
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Logic, Interface & Programmable Logic
6 d4 B) P  c& R! M2 `2 `3 p  UTexas Instruments - SN65HVD33/34/35 and SN65HVD53/54/55 transceivers
Texas Instruments - XIO2000 PCI Express-to-PCI bridging device
Agere Systems - TrueStore channel
Analog Devices - iCoupler family of digital isolators
6 J, _( Y! Z0 _, s' G6 b! L- tIDT - 70K2000BR SerialRapidIO switch
Xilinx - Virtex-5 LX FPGAs
Intersil - ISL317XE family
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Power
Maxwell Technologies - BMOD2600-48 module
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FDK - FPMR12TR7508NA
Microchip - dsPIC family
2 L2 d' a5 o+ z" t: r) xiWatt - iW1688 PWM
; R! {! c& _# m6 |3 _# D# |California Micro Devices - CM2030 and CM2031 ESD port protectors

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Silicon Laboratories - AeroFONE Si4905
3 Z; [4 t2 n0 j0 k4 O% I3 J7 gCypress Semiconductor - CYRF6936
% t# a0 B! Q$ ]. `  Z$ J/ ~3 uSiicon Labs - Si5040 XFP Transceiver
$ ?: `+ I. F2 V+ w! e* U; E2 `4 u4 `$ KTrimble - Copernicus GPS Receiver
Spirent Communications - SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator
MetaGeek - Wi-Spy plug-in
u-blox AG - u-blox 5 Family
Qualcomm - QSC1100 chip
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Test/Measurement
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LeCroy - WaveRunner Xi
Yokogawa Electric - DL7400 Series
2 t% o2 ^" W" ]; j/ ?% A8 d' WTektronix - DPO4000 Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
; U# H7 E! L- E2 L* l. P6 q5 JVmetro - Vanguard Express PCI Express Protocol and Link Analyzer
Pico Technology - PicoScope 2104 and 2105 PC Oscilloscopes
# @7 x' O- R/ w  ZPickering Interfaces - 40-581 Switch Matrix
5 Y- N+ p! S: CAmherst Systems Associates - ASAM1 Waveform Viewer software
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IEEE Spectrum Finalists
2 v: G. N' r& D) j8 e. WEmerging Technology ACE Award
British Telecom
Vanu, Inc.
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# \* e: j! h) C, ]0 q6 F0 \0 _" bRapidMind
Innovative Silicon
Technology in the Service of Society ACE Award
British Telecom
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0 G1 ^# d4 |5 S3 [1 KMagneti Marelli/Fiat
2 _- K5 w+ g, ]1 ~RapidMind
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