EE Times and EDN Announce the Finalists of the 2012 UBM Electronics ACE Awards Program

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Electronics, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, today announced the finalists for the 2012 UBM Electronics ACE Awards.  The new awards program brings together the EE Times ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards and EDN's Innovation Awards into one program.  The awards program honors the people and companies behind the technologies and products that are changing the world of electronics.  The awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, March 27 at The Fairmont San Jose, during DESIGN West, a new conference and expo building on the rich foundation of training, education and products available at ESC, combined with popular summits and new event launches in one venue for the first time.

"The new ACE Awards program provides us with an opportunity to recognize the technologies that have made a difference in the way we work, live and play over the past year.  We congratulate the finalists on their innovations and leadership in the electronics industry.  Additionally, we look forward to our awards ceremony in March to celebrate the innovation, creativity and contributions of the engineering community," said Junko Yoshida, Editor in Chief, EE Times, UBM Electronics.

Following are the 2012 UBM Electronics ACE Awards finalists:

NOMINATION-BASED CATEGORIES

• STARTUP OF THE YEAR
  • ArrayPower
  • Calxeda
  • LineStream Technologies
  • mCube
  • SuVolta, Inc.
• COMPANY OF THE YEAR
  • Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
  • Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
  • NXP Semiconductors
  • Qualcomm, Inc.
  • Xilinx, Inc.
• EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR
  • Yasushi Akao
    Representative Director, President
    Renesas Electronics Corporation
  • Rich Beyer
    CEO
    Freescale Semiconductor
  • Robert Black
    Executive Operating Officer
    JUKI
  • Warren East
    CEO
    ARM
  • Lip-Bu Tan
    President & CEO
    Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
• DESIGN TEAM OF THE YEAR
  • Intel and Micron IMFT Joint Development Project
  • Kontron
  • Philips Lumileds
  • SuVolta, Inc.
  • Tilera Corporation
• INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
  • CSR
    SiRFstarV and the SiRFusion platform
  • K. Charles Janac
    President & CEO
    Arteris
  • Philips Lumileds
    LUXEON A
  • Michael McCorquodale
    General Manager
    Integrated Device Technology
  • Zvi Or-Bach
    President & CEO
    MonolithIC 3D Inc.
• ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AWARD
  • Cogenra Solar
  • Echelon Corporation
  • Freescale Semiconductor
  • Maxim Integrated Products
  • SolarBridge Technologies
• ULTIMATE PRODUCTS

SoCs

• Cadence Design Systems
  Wide I/O memory controller core
• Calxeda
  EnergyCore ECX-1000
• Saankhya Labs Pvt Ltd
  SL1001
• STMicroelectronics
  Orly
• Xilinx
  Zynq-7000 EPP

Analog ICs

• Integrated Device Technology
  3LG family of CrystalFree CMOS oscillators
• Microchip Technology Inc.
  MTD6505 Sinusoidal, Sensorless, 3-phase BLDC Fan Motor Driver
• NXP Semiconductors
  DAC1628D1G25
• SiTime Corporation
  SiT912x Differential Oscillators
• TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.
  GaN high-power RF switch, TGS2351-SM

Digital ICs (MCUs, FPGAs, microprocessors)

• ARM
  Cortex-A7 MPCore
• Freescale Semiconductor
  Kinetis K50
• NXP Semiconductors
  Cortex-M0 LPC11U00 family
• STMicroelectronics
  STM32-F4
• Xilinx
  Virtex-7 2000T

Power

• Analog Devices
  ADP1047 digital power factor correction (PFC) controller
• Linear Technology
  LTC6803
• STMicroelectronics
  SPV1040 Solar Power Charger
• SynQor
  Military Grade UPS
• Texas Instruments
  BQ25504 boost charger for nano power energy harvesting applications

Human-Machine Interface Technology

• Austriamicrosystems
  AS3911
• Cypress Semiconductor
  Gen4 TrueTouchA® Controller 
• Freescale Semiconductor
  Xtrinsic Capacitive and Resistive touch sensing platform
• Integrated Device Technology
  LDS700x
• Movea
  MoveTV

Software

• Cadence Design Systems
  Virtual System Platform
• Synopsys
  Virtualizer
• Microchip Technology Inc.
  MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• NXP Semiconductors
  JenNet IP
• Zuken
  CR-8000 Design Force

Passive Components, Sensors, Indicators and Interconnects

• Analog Devices Inc.
  ADL5811/ADL5812 wideband passive mixers
• Aptina Imaging Corporation
  AR1010 High Speed Image Sensor
• NXP Semiconductors
  No-Offset I2C-Bus Buffers
• Plessey Semiconductors
  EPIC
• Texas Instruments
  TMP006

Development Kits, Reference Designs & SBCs

• Freescale Semiconductor
  Home Health Hub Reference Platform
• Kontron
  M2M Smart Services Developer Kit
• Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  TMDXEVM8148
• Nordic Semiconductor
  nRFready 2.4GHz RF Smart Remote reference design
• Xilinx
  Spartan-6 Consumer Video Kit 2.0

Test & Measurement Systems & Boards

• Azimuth Systems
  Field-to-Lab (FTL) solution
• LeCroy Corporation
  HRO 12-bit Oscilloscopes
• National Instruments
  NI PXIe-5665 14 GHz VSA
• Oscium
  iMSO-104
• Tektronix
  MDO4000 Mixed Domain Oscilloscope

A panel of EE Times editors narrowed down the entries to five finalists in each category, based on the criteria set forth in an online submission form.  Winners are determined from among the finalists by a panel of independent judges, including Robin B. Gray, Jr., Electronic Components Industry Association; Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research; Jeff Bier, President, Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI), Founder, Embedded Vision Alliance; Larry Boucher, President and CEO, Alacritech; William Dally, Chairman, Computer Science Dept., Stanford University; Erach Desai, Consultant, DESAIsive; John East, President and CEO, Actel Corporation; Gene A. Frantz, Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments, Inc.; Lucio Lanza, Managing Director, Lanzatech Ventures; John Mashey, Consultant, Techviser; DennisMonticelli, Chief Technoligist and Fellow, National Semiconductor; Martin Reynolds, Dataquest; George M. Scalise, President, Semiconductor Industry Association; Naveed Sherwani, President & CEO, Open Silicon; and Nick Tredennick, Editor, Gilder Technology Report.  Judging took place from November 1, 2011-January 6, 2012.

The judging panel also selected additional categories, which include Most Engaged Community Member, Best Student Design/Design Challenge with Public Schools, Contributor of the Year, Student of the Year, Mentor of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society and IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award do not have finalists. 

All winners will be announced at the UBM Electronics ACE Awards Tuesday, March 27 at The Fairmont San Jose, during DESIGN West. To purchase tickets to attend the UBM Electronics ACE Awards, go to: https://aceawards.reg.ubmelectronics.com/2012/registrations Tickets are $175.00 per person.

For more information on the awards program visit http://ubm-ace.com/.

The UBM Electronics ACE Awards are generously sponsored by platinum sponsor Mouser Electronics, a TI company; executive Platinum sponsor Avnet Electronics Marketing; silver sponsor XILINX; and association media sponsor IEEE Spectrum.

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