IEC President John Janowiak stated, "Our DesignVision Awards honor those catalyzing positive change in high-technology, business, and academia, completely in line with the IEC's mission. We are delighted to announce the winners at this year's DesignCon in Santa Clara and share the best design advancements with the entire industry."
Finalists were chosen from among a record-number of competing products by a panel of judges selected from DesignCon's Technical Program Committee. This year's Technical Program Committee consisted of 96 of the industry's top thought leaders.
In the nine categories, the 2007 award finalists include the following companies and products respectively:
ASIC and IC Design Tools
-- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. - Cadence Space-Based Router
-- Novas Software, Inc. -- Siloti(TM) Visibility Enhancement (VE) family
-- Synopsys, Inc. -- PrimeTime VX
Design Verification Tools
-- EVE -- ZeBu-UF4
-- Liga Systems -- NitroSIM(TM)
-- OneSpin Solutions -- OneSpin 360 Module Verifier
Interconnect Technologies and Components
-- Belden -- Belden 1304A/1305A CatSnakeTactical Cat 5e
-- Denali Software -- DDR PHY Interface (DFI) Standard
-- TDK Corporation of America -- ESR Controlled MLCCs
PCB Design Tools
-- ASSET InterTech -- DFT Analyzer
-- Flomerics Inc. -- FloPCB for Allegro
-- PCB Libraries, Inc. -- IPC-7351A LP Wizard
Semiconductors and ICs
-- Rambus -- Rambus' FlexPhase
-- Lattice Semiconductor -- LatticeECP2M FPGA family
-- National Semiconductor -- LM3370 Multi-Channel Integrated Power Management Device
-- Mentor Graphics Corporation -- Calibre LFD
Semiconductors and ICs (IP)
-- Stratosphere Solutions, Inc. -- StratoPro
-- Sun Microsystems -- OpenSPARC T1/UltraSPARC T1
Structured/Platform ASIC, FPGA, and PLD Design Tools
-- Altium Limited -- Altium Designer 6
-- CoWare, Inc. -- CoWare Virtual Platform Product Family
-- Xilinx -- PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool (Version 8.2)
System-Level Design Tools
-- Bluespec, Inc. -- ESL Synthesis Extensions for SystemC
-- Synplicity, Inc. -- Open IP Encryption Methodology
-- Chip Estimate -- InCyte Enterprise
Test and Measurement Equipment
-- Agilent Technologies -- J-BERT with industry first built-in clock data recovery (CDR)
-- LeCroy -- SDA 18000
-- Probing Solutions -- PSI 2020HV
-- Tektronix, Inc. -- RSA6100A Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer
-- Wavecrest -- SIA-4000 Signal Integrity Analysis Solution
Winners will be announced at DesignCon on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at Noon in the theater of the Santa Clara Convention Center. Entrance is to the awards ceremony is complimentary with an Exhibits Plus Pass available at www.designcon.com/2007/registration/.
Visit www.designcon.com/2007 for full information or contact Lisa Ann Reyes at lreyes@iec.org or +1-312-559-3325.
About DesignCon
DesignCon serves as the premier event for practicing engineers in the electrical design and semiconductor communities. Broadening the scope to address business as well as technical issues of the industry, DesignCon 2006 hosted 125 exhibiting companies and drew more than 5,000 industry professionals to register. This year's DesignCon will host more than 300 industry experts to speak in more than 100 educational tutorials, plenary panels, paper presentations, and sessions at DesignCon. Complementing the conference, more than 125 exhibitors are expected to take the floor exhibiting the latest technological developments. Visit www.designcon.com/2007.
About the IEC
A nonprofit organization, the IEC is dedicated to catalyzing technology and business progress worldwide in a range of high-technology industries and their university communities. Since 1944, the IEC has provided high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals, academics, and students.
In conjunction with industry-leading companies, the IEC has developed an extensive, free, on-line educational program. The IEC conducts industry-university programs that have substantial impact on curricula. It also conducts research and develops publications, conferences, and technological exhibits that address major opportunities and challenges of the information age.
More than 70 leading high-technology universities are IEC affiliates, and the IEC handles the affairs of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association and Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society for electrical and computer engineers. The IEC also manages the activities of the Enterprise Communications Consortium. Visit www.iec.org.
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