EDN China2010 Innovation Award Results Announced

(Beijing, November 17, 2010) EDN China, the premier media and community site for China’s electronics design industry, has announced the results of the 2010 EDN China Innovation Award. Twenty-two products from 20 technology suppliers received "Best Product Award", 40 products landed with "Leading Product Award" and 10 products "Editor's Choice Award", and the honorary title of "Engineers’ Favorite Distributor" went to eight technical service distributors.

A total of 81 companies and 154 products competing for the "Best Product Award" under nine technical categories participated in the program this year and the final result is based on the voting by ednchina.com’s registered users, the award panel judges and EDN China editors,

William Zhang, publisher of EDN China, noted, "This year we have tried to innovate our Innovation Award and related events, in a bid to recognize more innovative methods and products in the industry."

This year for the "Best Product Award", 21 sub-category awards were added under the nine technical categories to highlight the achievements of related suppliers in their technical sectors of strength.. The nine categories are testing and measurement, power devices and modules, development tools and software, Programmable Logic, analog/mixed signals, , communication and networking, microprocessor and DSP, passive component and sensor.

Based on the criteria of "international-level products developed with local resources", 10 innovative products won the "Editor's Choice Award" this year. They come from Spreadtrum, Rigol, Agate Logic, SBS, ZLG, MIPS, Sensirion, EPC, Mornsun and Chipsea Technologies, with their outstanding achievements in semiconductor design and manufacturing mostly done in China.

Technical support from distributors and excellent collaboration from electronics design engineers are key factors in electronic applications innovations. The EDN China "Engineers’ Favorite Distributor" Award, recognized distributors who are engaged in component product distribution within China with highly efficient and quality technical support services for system vendors over the past year. Based on the voting result of engineers, 3 companies received the "Engineers’ Favorite Local Distributor" Award, respectively Burnon International, ZLG MCU Development, and Secom Telecom, and five companies won the "Engineers’ Favorite International Distributor" Award, respectively Arrow, Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia, Cytech Technology Ltd, Premier Electronics and RS Components.

Already in its sixth year, EDN China Innovation Award is the most influential award in China's electronics design industry. As China has become the world's largest IC consuming market, the award focuses on products and technologies recognized by Chinese electronics design engineers. The award selection process started in May 2010. participating companies nominated their best products launched in the Chinese market between June, 2009 and May, 2010. EDNChina.com's registered users voted on them and a judge panel comprised of industry experts and EDN China's senior editors chose the final winners from the product finalists.

More than 300,000 readers and registered website users were encouraged to participate in the voting for this year's selection process through EDNChina.com, one of the dynamic active online community in China's electronics design and development industry, which boasts over 400,000 registered users.

About EDN China As part of the EDN worldwide network, EDN China is one of the most influential media vehicles for China’s electronics design community. Launched in 1994, EDN China and its online portal EDNChina.com, which has dynamic Web 2.0 features, have design technology focused editorial, extensive user generated content and strong international resource support. EDN China has continued to win loyal readership of more innovative‐minded engineers and managers across the country. It has a BPA audit circulation of 40,000, in addition to an ever increasing number of registered online users.

About EDN Innovation Award Now in its 22nd year, the EDN Innovation Award honors the products and people that have shaped the electronics industry over the past year. It has become the most prestigious award in the electronics design engineering category in the North America. In 2005, EDN China introduced the annual Innovation Award in China, highlighting the outstanding engineering products in the market. A combination of votes from experts and design engineers determines the winners of the year, who will also win an honor in China’s electronics design engineering industry.

EDN China 2010 Innovation Award

Best Product Award Test and Measurement General Test Product: Agilent Technologies Infiniium 90000 X-Series Oscilloscopes Company: Agilent Technologies

Communication Test Product: Wideband Radio Communication Tester R&S® CMW500 Company: Rohde & Schwarz

Programmable Logic FPGAs Product: Arria® II GX FPGA Company: Altera

Embedded Systems Product: NXP the smallest Cortex-M0 MCU in the size of 2*2 mm: LPC1102 Company: NXP semiconductors

System Development Product: Extensible Processing Platform Company:

Memories Product: FM25V(N)10 Grade 3 Company: Ramtron International Corporation.

Development Tool and Software System Design Product: Altium Designer Summer 09 Company: Altium

Application Design Product: WEBENCH Power Architect Company: National Semiconductor

DSP Microprocessor/DSP Microprocessors Product: i.MX516 application processor Company: Freescale Semiconductor

DSPs Product: ADSP2147X SHARC Floating Point Digital Signal Processors Company: Analog Devices

Passive Component and Sensor Sensors Product: MEMS digital compass LSM303DLH Company: STMicroelectronics

Passive Components Product: Solid Tantalum Chip Capacitors With 75-V Rating Company: Vishay

Power Device and Module Converters Product: TPS63020 buck-boost converter Company: Texas Instruments

Lighting Product: LT3743 --- High Current Synchronous Step-Down LED Driver with Three-State Control Company: Linear Technology

Power Device Product: IGBT High Speed3 Company: Infineon Technologies

Analog/Mixed Signal Front-End ICs Product: ADS1298 Analog Front End Company: Texas Instruments

Converters Product: AD7606: 8-Channel DAS with 16-Bit, Bipolar, Simultaneous Sampling ADC Company: Analog Devices

Product: 16-bit, high performance Simultaneous-sampling ADC MAX11046 Company: Maxim Integrated Products

Integrations Product: QuickSense family: C8051F800 MCU and Si1102 proximity sensor and the Si1120 proximity and ambient light sensor Company: Silicon Laboratories

Communications & Networking Mobile ICs Product: MT6253: GPRS Mutimedia Phone SoC Solution Company: MediaTek, Inc.

Networking ICs Product: BCM56840 Company: Broadcom Corporation

Front-End ICs Product: QUANTUM Tx Module™- TQM6M4049 Company: TriQuint Semiconductor

Leading Product Award Test and Measurement Product: 7100 LTE Digital Radio Test Set Company: Aeroflex

Product: LitePoint IQxstream Company: LitePoint

Product: MSO70000 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Company: Tektronix

Product: USB Logic Analyzers LogicStudio 16 Company: LeCroy

Programmable Logic Product: SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed-Signal FPGA Company: Actel Corporation

Product: Virtex®-6 FPGA Company: Xilinx

Embedded System Product: 32 bit Ultra Low Power Line MCU STM32L Company: STMicroelectronics

Product: Atmel AVR32 AT32UC3L Company: Atmel

Product: BCM4331 Company: Broadcom Corporation

Product: Micron® Omneo™ PCM Company: Micron Technology

Product: MSP430 Value Line Company: Texas Instruments

Product: PIC32MX5/6/7 32-bit MCU Company: Microchip Technology

Development Tool and Software Product: EmTeam EDA Library Co-design System Company: Emdoor Electronic Technology

Product: FloEFD 9.3 Company: Mentor Graphics

Product: Xilinx ISE Design Suite Company: Xilinx

Product: PSoC Creator Company: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Microprocessor/DSP Product: ARM® Cortex™-A5 MPCore™ Company: ARM

Product: NGB HD Decoder/MB86H61 Series Company: Fujitsu Semiconductor

Passive Component and Sensor Product: Multilayer Chip Varistor AVR0402 Series Company: TDK

Product: ADT7420 Digital Temperature Sensors Company: Analog Devices

Product: FBIS Company: Tyco Electronics

Product: MLCC Samsung P/N:CL05A106MQ5NUNC Company: Samsung Electro-Mechanics

Product: MMA8450Q Accelerometer Company: Freescale Semiconductor

Product: mTouch Projected Capacitive Touch-Screen Sensing Technology Company: Microchip Technology

Power Device and Module Product: A8512 LED Backlight Driver for LCD Monitors and Televisions Company: Allegro MicroSystems Inc.

Product: CAPZero Company: Power Integrations

Product: CM1624 application specific microSD memory card protection filter Company: ON Semiconductor

Product: NXP GreenChip Resonant Controller with Integrated Power Factor Correction: TEA1713 Company: NXP semiconductors

Product: FSEZ1307,FSEZ1317-Primary Side Regulation Pulse Width Modulation Controller Series Company: Fairchild Semiconductor

Product: IRS2573DS HID Ballast Control IC (IRS2573D) Company: International Rectifier

Product: ISL8200M Company: Intersil Corporation

Product: Power – XRP7704 – Digital Power Device Company: Exar Corporation

Analog/Mixed Signal Product: LM3464 Company: National Semiconductor

Product: AS3501/02 Active Noise Cancellation ICs Company: Austriamicrosystems

Product: LTC6655 --- 0.25ppm Noise, Low Drift Precision Buffered Reference Company: Linear Technology

Communications & Networking Product: ACPL-M61L/064L/061L/W61L/K64L, 10MBd ultra-low power digital optocouplers Company: Avago Technologies

Product: ADRF660x series of mixers Company: Analog Devices

Product: AMIS-49587 Smart Grid PLC Modem Company: ON Semiconductor

Product: CSR7810 Company: CSR

Product: ZHIYUAN Electronics' XGate Series Embedded Field Bus Communication Gateway Module Company: Guangzhou ZhiYuan Electronics

Editor’s Choice Award Test and Measurement Product: DS6104 Digital Oscilloscopes Company: RIGOL TECHNOLOGIES,INC.

Programmable Logic Product: Astro CSoC Company: Agate Logic

Embedded System Product: Industrial AFC Embedded Computer Company: SBS Science & Technology Co., Ltd

Development Tool and Software Product: TKScope DK10 Emulator Company: Guangzhou ZhiYuan Electronics

Microprocessor/DSP Product: MIPS32® M14K™ Core Company: MIPS Technologies

Passive Component and Sensor Product: SHT21 Humidity and temperature sensor Company: Sensirion

Power Device and Module Product: Enhancement-mode Gallium-Nitride-on-Silicon Power Transistor Company: Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC)

Product: Medical Ultra-miniature AC-DC Converter Company: MORNSUN GUANGZHOU SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY.,LTD.

Analog/Mixed Signal Product: Low-cost high-precision SOC used in solar energy scale——CSU1101B Company: Shenzhen Chipsea Technologies

Communications & Networking Product: Spreadtrum GSM/GPRS baseband chipset SC6600L Company: Spreadtrum Communications

Engineers’ Favorite Distributor

Engineers’ Favorite Local Distributor Burnon International Secom Telecom ZLG MCU Development

Engineers’ Favorite International Distributor Arrow Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia Cytech Technology Ltd Premier Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd RS Components