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The hot 100 products of 2003
The best 100 products of 2003 encompass a range of architectures and technologies and a plethora of categories—from analog ICs to multimedia to test-and-measurement tools.
By Staff -- EDN, 12/11/2003
The best 100 products of 2003 encompass a range of architectures and
technologies and a plethora of categories—from analog ICs to multimedia to
test-and-measurement tools. All are innovative, but, of the thousands that manufacturers
announce each year and the hundreds that EDN reports about, only about 100 hot
products really make our readers sit up and take notice. Here are the picks from this
year's crop. Click on the links below to read the full text of the articles that cover
these products' dazzling features.
| Analog ICs | ||
| Analog Devices AD8348 quadrature demodulator www.analog.com |
BitBlitz BBTX400 quad transceiver for 10-Gbps Ethernet and Fibre Channel www.bitblitz.com |
Intersil EL9110 video receiver/equalizer www.intersil.com |
| Linear Technology LT1568 dual matched filter www.linear.com |
Mindspeed M210xx family clock- and data-recovery ICs www.mindspeed.com |
National Semiconductor LMV1012 and LMV1014 electret amplifiers www.national.com |
| Texas Instruments TPS2383 PSE controller www.ti.com |
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| Components | ||
| Agilent Technologies HCPL-7510 and HCPL-7520 linear optocoupler www.agilent.com |
Fairchild Semiconductor Corp QSB34 IR photosensor www.fairchildsemi.com |
JW Miller HT power inductors www.jwmiller.com |
| LEDtronics Inc L200 series www.ledtronics.com |
Murata Electronics MA200D1 220-kHz ultrasonic sensor www.murata.com |
Sarantel Helix antenna www.sarantel.com |
| Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions TCS230 RGB color sensor www.taosinc.com |
Tyco Electronics MMCX micro RF connector www.tycoelectronics.com |
Vishay Intertechnology CSM2512 and CSM3637 current-sensing resistor www.vishay.com |
| Computers, boards, and buses | ||
| General Micro Systems C269 Equinox CompactPCI CPU board www.gms4sbc.com |
Kontron America CP306 3U CompactPCI CPU module www.kontron.com |
MaxStream 9XCite 900-MHz wireless OEM module www.maxstream.net |
| Micro/sys Micro/sys SBC 1586 PC/104 CPU module www.embeddedsys.com |
Pentek Model 7631 16-channel digital-receiver PMC www.pentek.com |
Radicom Research 240IM-T-LP embedded modem www.radi.com |
| WinSystems PPM-Cardbus PC/104-card bus adapter www.winsystems.com |
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| Discrete semiconductors | ||
| International Rectifier IR331x family solid-state power switches www.irf.com |
STMicroelectronics STS130NH02L low-voltage MOSFET www.st.com |
Toshiba America Electronic Components 2SC-5775 bipolar transistors with ultralow saturation voltage www.toshiba.com |
| Digital and programmable logic | ||
| Actel RTAX-S antifuse FPGA www.actel.com |
Lattice Semiconductor PowerPAC analog/digital hybrid chip www.latticesemi.com |
MoSys 1T-SRAM-Q one-transistor SRAM technology www.mosys.com |
| M-Systems G3 Mobile DiskOnChip NAND-flash-memory architecture www.m-sys.com |
NexFlash Technologies SPI flash memories www.nexflash.com |
Toshiba 2-Gbit single-die NAND flash memory www.toshiba.com |
| Xilinx Spartan-III FPGAs www.xilinx.com |
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| EDA | ||
| Cadence Incisive scalable simulator www.cadence.com |
ChipMD DesignMD yield-optimization tool www.chipmd.com |
Hier Design Planahead virtual-silicon prototyping tool www.hierdesign.com |
| Magma Design Automation Blast Create synthesis and Blast Rail power-analysis tools www.magma-da.com |
Mentor Graphics Advance MS analog/mixed-signal simulator www.mentor.com |
Nassda Critic dynamic-timing-analysis tool www.nassda.com |
| Novas Verdi debugging tool www.novas.com |
Synopsys Saber electromechanical simulator www.synopsys.com |
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| Embedded tools | ||
| Cygnal Integrated Products C8051F320DK development kit for C8051F321 www.cygnal.com |
Eclipse Project Eclipse open-source integrated development tool www.eclipse.org |
InHand Electronics Elf3 mobile-device-development platform www.inhandelectronics.com |
| Kdevelop Project Kdevelop Linux-based software-development platform www.kdevelop.org |
Microchip Technology PICkit 1 flash starter kit all-in-one development platform www.microchip.com |
Motorola USB08 evaluation board reference design and starter kit for USB 2.0 designs www.motorola.com |
| SofTec Microsystems inDart-HCS12 in-circuit debugger/programmer www.softecmicro.com |
Softwire Technology Softwire for the Pocket PC Web-services-development tool www.softwire.com |
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| Multimedia | ||
| LSI Logic ZiVA-6 processor family www.lsilogic.com |
MediaQ (now Nvidia) MQ2100 handheld graphics accelerator www.nvidia.com |
MediaQ (now Nvidia) MQ9000 handhled graphics accelerator www.nvidia.com |
| NanoAmp Solutions MOCA-J (Memory Oriented Coprocessor Accelerator-Java) processor www.nanoamp.com |
NeoMagic MiMagic 6 multimedia processor www.neomagic.com |
Wolfson Microelectronics WM9712L audio-processing chip www.wolfsonmicro.com |
| Network Processors | ||
| Cypress Ayama 1000 NSE family network search engine www.cypress.com |
IDT 75K72100 network search engine www.idt.com |
Xelerated X10q family network processors www.xelerated.com |
| Peripherals | ||
| ATI Technologies Mobility Radeon 9600 notebook-graphics accelerator www.ati.com |
Cornice Storage Element rotating- storage device www.corniceco.com |
Marvell 88SX6041 and 88SX6081 Serial ATA host-side controllers www.marvell.com |
| Nvidia GeForce FX 5800 graphics accelerator www.nvidia.com |
Nvidia GeForce FX Go5600 graphics accelerator www.nvidia.com |
Palmchip BK-3719 Serial ATA host-controller core www.palmchip.com |
| ServerWorks Division of Broadcom SWC-IB7451 and SWC-IB7453 Serial ATA-drive-management processors www.serverworks.com |
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| Processors | ||
| Altera Nios 3.0 processor core www.altera.com |
Analog Devices ADSP-TS20x TigerSHARC DSP www.analog.com |
Atmel Magic DSP core www.atmel.com |
| Cypress CY8C27x reconfigurable microcontroller www.cypress.com |
Motorola 56F8300 hybrid DSP/RISC controller www.motorola.com |
Ubicom IP3023 multithreaded processor www.ubicom.com |
| Zilog eZ80F91 Web-server microcontroller www.zilog.com |
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| Software | ||
| Addison-Wesley Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering book www.aw.com |
Green Hills Software TimeMachine embedded-software debugger www.ghs.com |
International Rectifier IRMCS203 and IRMCO203 motor-control software www.irf.com |
| Mathsoft Application Server calculation-management package www.mathsoft.com |
National Instruments LabView 7 Express data-acquisition and analysis package www.ni.com |
National Semiconductor Webench 4.0 analog and power online-design tool www.national.com |
