2007 EE Times ACE Awards Finalists

Company of the Year - Large Applied Materials NVIDIA Corporation QUALCOMM Incorporated Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Texas Instruments	Company of the Year – Small/Medium Atheros Communications CSR National Instruments Tropos Networks Wind River Systems, Inc.	Startup Company of the Year Luxtera Quickfilter Technologies Ruckus Wireless SiTime Corporation Telegent Systems, Inc.
Executive of the Year Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing - Chia Song Hwee Cypress Semiconductor Corp. - T.J. Rodgers Mentor Graphics Corporation - Walden C. Rhines QUALCOMM CDMA Technology - Sanjay Jha Ruckus Wireless - Selina Lo	Student of the Year Michael Callahan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Educator of the Year Dr. Belle Wei Dean of the College of Engineering San Jose State University
Innovator of the Year Agilent Technologies, Inc. Akustica, Inc. Discera Innovative Silicon University of Colorado at Colorado Springs	Design Team of the Year Altera Corp. Clear Shape Technologies Inc. Freescale Semiconductor Motorola, Inc Sun Microsystems	Most Promising Technology Amimon Inc. Analog Devices, Inc. EyeTech Digital Systems Intel / UCSB QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies

Ultimate Products Finalists - 2007
Each quarter, eeProductCenter editors select the top 10 products in seven technology areas written up on the Web site and submit these via electronic balloting to register users to place in rank order. At least 1000 unique responses/votes are required each quarter. The top two ranking products in each category every quarter automatically become EE Times ACE Awards Ultimate Products of the Year Finalists. The Winners are selected by more than 3500 unique votes from a pool of frequent registered users who have voted over the past year for Ultimate Products. EE Times ACE Awards Ultimate Products of the Year Winners will be announced at the gala event on April 3, 2007.

Analog
Linear Technology - LTC3035EDDB
Analog Devices - AD7142
Wolfson Microelectronics - WM8960 Class D Speaker Driver
e2v - 12-bit A/D delivers 500 Msamples/s
Texas Instruments - ADS8422
National Semiconductor - ADC14155
Inphi - 13650DE and 13651DE
Melexis - MLX90614

Processor/Memory
Texas Instruments - MSP430 MCU
SanDisk - iNAND
Seagate - Momentus 5400.3, 2.5-in hard disk drive
Luminary Micro - Stellaris family of 32-bit microcontrollers
Analog Devices - ADSP-BF539 and ADSP-BF539F Blackfin digital signal processors
Freescale Semiconductor - MC9RS08KA 8-bit RS08 MCU
Microchip Technology - PIC18F97J60
STMicroelectronics - ARM7 MCUs

IP&E
Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas - LQ035Q7DH06 3.5-inch QVGA thin-film transistor
Tyco - Z-PACK MAX connector
Micron Technology, Inc. - ADCC-3000 image sensor
AuthenTec - EntrePad 1610 Fingerprint Sensor
New Scale Technologies - SQUIGGLE motor
Samsung - 3.5-inch LCD
Cree - 2-amp Zero Recovery rectifier
Capella - CM3200HS (High Sensitivity), CM3200 and CM3000 ambient light sen

Logic, Interface & Programmable Logic
Texas Instruments - SN65HVD33/34/35 and SN65HVD53/54/55 transceivers
Texas Instruments - XIO2000 PCI Express-to-PCI bridging device
Agere Systems - TrueStore channel
Analog Devices - iCoupler family of digital isolators
IDT - 70K2000BR SerialRapidIO switch
Xilinx - Virtex-5 LX FPGAs
Intersil - ISL317XE family
Actel - IGLOO FPGAs

Power
Maxwell Technologies - BMOD2600-48 module
American Power Conversion - PCMCIA Password Manager
Power Integrations - TinySwitch III
Power Integrations - PeakSwitch family
FDK - FPMR12TR7508NA
Microchip - dsPIC family
iWatt - iW1688 PWM
California Micro Devices - CM2030 and CM2031 ESD port protectors

RF/Microwave
Silicon Laboratories - AeroFONE Si4905
Cypress Semiconductor - CYRF6936
Silicon Labs - Si5040 XFP Transceiver
Trimble - Copernicus GPS Receiver
Spirent Communications - SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator
MetaGeek - Wi-Spy plug-in
u-blox AG - u-blox 5 Family
Qualcomm - QSC1100 chip

Test/Measurement
Tektronix - DPO7000
LeCroy - WaveRunner Xi
Yokogawa Electric - DL7400 Series
Tektronix - DPO4000 Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
Vmetro - Vanguard Express PCI Express Protocol and Link Analyzer
Pico Technology - PicoScope 2104 and 2105 PC Oscilloscopes
Pickering Interfaces - 40-581 Switch Matrix
Amherst Systems Associates - ASAM1 Waveform Viewer software

IEEE Spectrum Finalists

Emerging Technology ACE Award
British Telecom
Vanu, Inc.
Magneti Marelli/Fiat
RapidMind
Innovative Silicon

Technology in the Service of Society ACE Award
British Telecom
Vanu, Inc.
Magneti Marelli/Fiat
RapidMind
Innovative Silicon

2006 ACE Awards Finalists

2005 ACE Awards Finalists