The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2009 Featured on EDN News

 

 

As we start the new year we look back at 2009 and ponder on what will make the list in 2010. With innovation at hand we will be featuring new technologies all year and create a list of our own with the help of our franchise lines.  Solid State Inc, will be strategically featuring products and hope to create a technical blog which will be educational and informative to our readers and online visitors.

EDN featured the Hot 100 Electronic Products in an article this past month.  Below you can browse the list.

Analog ICs

Analog Devices
AD9269 80M-sample/sec pipeline ADC

Analog Devices
ADA4627 JFET op amp

Analog Devices
ADuM4160 bidirectional USB isolator

Linear Technology Corp
LT3092 two-terminal current source

Maxim Integrated Products
MAX11810 touchscreen-interface chip

Microchip Technology
MCP651/2/5 offset-voltage-corrected operational amplifier

National Semiconductor
ADC16DV160 ADC


Applied Systems

Altium
NanoBoard 3000

Lantronix

IPv6-certified SpiderDuo KVM-over-IP product

MEN Micro

ESMexpress system on module

WinSystems

Pico-ITXe SBC

ZeroG Wireless

Wi-Fi kits for PIC


Communications and Networking

Freescale Semiconductor

MPC8569E communications processor

Fujitsu

MB86L01A transceiver chip

Gigle Semiconductor

GGL541 powerline-networking IC
additional coverage

Intellon (now Atheros)
INT6400 powerline-networking IC

PMC Sierra

HyPHY 20G

Solarflare

SFL 902x


Components

Bergquist
Bond Ply 450 thermal-interface material

Bourns

Hot-dipped-tin ROHS-compliant cermet-wire-terminal trimming potentiometers

Cool Innovations

Flared-pin-fin heat sinks

Epson Toyocom

EG-4101/4121CA SAW resonator

Fairchild Semiconductor

FDMS7650 30V MOSFET

Luminus

PhlatLight LED PT-39 chip set

Philips Lumileds

Luxeon Rebel HB LEDs

Phoenix Company of Chicago

Nonmagnetic-connector family

Qualcomm

Color IMOD display

SMSC

CAP10xx capacitive sensors

STMicroelectronics

LIS302DLH digital MEMS accelerometer

Texas Instruments

Picoprojector development kit


DSPs

Ceva
Ceva-XC DSP core

Tensilica

ConnX D2 DSP

Texas Instruments

TMS320C6472 DSP

Texas Instruments

TMS320C6743 fixed/floating-point DSP


EDA

Agilent Technologies
ADS signal-integrity channel simulator

Ansys

Ansoft SIwave Version 4.0

Berkeley Design Automation

AFS Nano simulator

Cadence Design Systems

Virtuoso APS circuit simulator

Jasper

Behavioral Indexing

Mentor Graphics

Tessent Yield Insight tool

OneSpin

360MV

Synopsys

Custom Designer 2009.06

Synopsys

Synphony

Synopsys

Yield Explorer


Graphics/Graphics-Interface ICs

IDT

VMM 1300 PanelPort ViewXpand chip

Nvidia

Ion core-logic chip set
additional coverage
additional coverage

Silicon Image
HDMI Version 1.4 chips


Memory and Storage

Agiga Tech
AgigaRAM technology

IM Flash Technologies

3-bit-per-cell MLC NAND flash

Western Digital

1-Tbyte, 2.5-in. and 2-Tbyte, 3.5-in. hard-disk drives
additional coverage


Microcontrollers and Processors

Atmel
AT91CAP7L microcontroller

Atmel

mXT224 maXTouch touchscreen controller

Cypress Semiconductor

PSoc 3 and PSoc 5 programmable system-on-chip architectures

Energy Micro

EFM32G Gecko microcontroller

Microchip

PIC32 Connectivity microcontrollers

Samsung Electronics and Intrinsity
Hummingbird and Fast14 domino logic


Power

austriamicrosystems
AS1302 charge-pump dc/dc boost converter

Cissoid

Magma PWM-controller chip

EaglePicher

Lithium-CFX (carbon-monofluoride) battery chemistry

Enpirion

EN5337QI 5MHz, 3A synchronous buck dc/dc converter

Exar Corp

XRP7704 and XRP7740 quad-PWM-controller chips

Fairchild Semiconductor

FAN9612 PFC controller

Freescale Semiconductor

MCF51EM microcontrollers

International Rectifier

IR3725 input-power-monitoring IC

Linear Technology Corp

LTC2978 monitoring-and-control chip

Maxim Integrated Products

MAX16064 monitoring-and-control chip

Maxim Integrated Products

MAXQ3108/DS8102 Polyphase Energy Meter chip set

Microchip Technology

dsPIC33F ac/dc reference design

Teridian Semiconductor

78M6612 power- and energy-measurement chip

Texas Instruments

MSP430F471xx ultralow-power microcontrollers


Processors and Tools

AMD
Athlon II CPU

AMD

Phenom II CPU
additional coverage

AMD
Shanghai and Istanbul CPUs
additional coverage

Intel
Atom N280 CPU
additional coverage

Intel

Core i5 CPU

Intel

Nehalem EP and EX CPUs

Nvidia

Tegra CPU


Programmable ICs

Actel
ProASIC3 family

Altera

Cyclone3 LS

Lattice Semiconductor

ECP3 family

Xilinx

Virtex 6


RF

Linear Technology Corp
LTC5541 downconverting mixer

Texas Instruments

ADS5400 12-bit, 1G-sample/sec ADC


Semiconductor Processes and IP

Akya

ART2 reconfigurable-logic technology

IBM

Power7 architecture

On Semiconductor

180-nm ASIC process

Snowbush Division of Gennum

PCI Generation 3 controller IP

Synopsys

DesignWare miniPower


Software

Audio Precision
APx500 Version 2.4 software

DDC-I

DEOS RTOS

Mentor Graphics

FloEFD electronics-cooling-simulation software

National Instruments

LabView 2009 graphical-system-design software platform

National Semiconductor

Webench online-design tool

Verigy

Triage and YieldVision yield-learning tools


Test and Measurement

Agilent Technologies
J-BERT N4903B jitter-tolerance tester

Anritsu

VectorStar 110-GHz vector network analyzer

Data Translation

Voltpoint instrument for lithium-ion cell-by-cell measurement

LeCroy

Xi-A Series 400-MHz to 2-GHz WaveRunner digital oscilloscopes

Rohde & Schwarz

CMW500 6-GHz wideband-radio-test system

Tektronix

RSA6120A 20-GHz spectrum analyzer

 

 

from the Solid State Team : Happy New Year and We Welcome Innovations in 2010 !

by:   SPB : Technical Editor, Sr. Account Specialist and Product Development