December 9, 2010 (New York, NY): Winners of the best technology, products and standards for 2010 were announced today in Electronic Design’s annual Best Electronic Design issue. Also announced are the year's best Ideas For Design and six new inductees into the Engineering Hall of Fame, which the publication founded in 2002.
Staff and contributing editors selected the award winners for the best technology, products and standards, while readers selected the best Ideas for Design published in the past 12 months. Readers also selected the Hall of Fame inductees from a list created by the editorial staff.
“We rely on the expertise of our staff and contributing editors to ferret out the best of the many new technologies, products and standards that we have seen and wrote about over the past 12 months,” said Editor-in-Chief Joe Desposito. “These guys are in the trenches every day covering this industry and they know about all the great new innovations that have been introduced in the last year.”
The Best Electronic Design awards are segmented into editorial “beats” as well as vertical markets, such as industrial and medical. The editors are free to choose what they consider to be the best in these areas. The staff editors include Don Tuite for analog and power, Lou Frenzel for communications, David Maliniak for EDA and test and measurement, Bill Wong for digital and embedded and Mat Dirjish for components.
Contributing Editor Roger Allan selected winners in the industrial and medical spaces, while Contributing Editor Randy Frank selected the automotive winners. Staff Editor Wong selected winners in computers, military and aerospace, and consumer electronics.
All winners are listed below with links to the articles that appeared in the December 9, 2010 issue of Electronic Design. Winners receive a Best Electronic Design logo, which they can post on their own Web site.
2010 Best Electronic Design Winners
Analog & Mixed Signal
Intersil
The SLOC (Security Link over Coax) and MegaQ chip solution
Power
National Semiconductor
WEBENCH LED Architect
Communications
Wired
IEEE and Broadcom
Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az standard and Broadcom portfolio
Wireless
picoChip
PC333 multicore femtocell (baseband) on a chip SoC
Digital
Multicore
NXP
LPC4000 dual core microcontroller
FPGA
Actel
SmartFusion FPGA
Embedded Microprocessor
Intel
Atom Processor E600 Series
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