The 2016 ECN IMPACT Awards are the culmination of a Product Technology Awards history stretching back 60 years. Honoring our rich tradition of highlighting design engineering excellence, the ECN IMPACT Awards recognize the top products and services across the design engineering landscape. The competition seeks to honor ingenuity and creativity among companies large and small who are making a difference in the industry and in the lives of engineers.
This year’s finalists represent organizations across 17 categories that have shown excellence in engineering through electronic design and groundbreaking innovation.
This year’s ECN IMPACT Award Winners will be announced in a live online event, hosted at www.ecnmag.com at 12:00 noon (EDT) on October 13, 2016.
Analog & Mixed Signal ICs
Inphi Corporation | 4-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation chipset |
Analog Devices, Inc. | AD9162 |
SiTime Corporation | SiT8021 µPower Oscillator |
Silego Technology | GreenPAK 5 |
SiTime Corporation | Super-TCXO |
Inphi Corporation |
ColorZ™ |
Boards, Modules, & Embedded Systems
Texas Instruments | MSP432™ microcontroller (MCU) platform |
NXP Semiconductors | Hexiwear |
Maxim Integrated | MAXREFDES79# Quad IO-Link® Master Reference Design |
Renesas Electronics America, Inc. | Renesas ADAS Starter Kit |
NXP Semiconductors | Single Chip System Module SCM-i.MX 6Dual/6Quad |
Texas Instruments |
C2000™ Delfino™ MCUs and DesignDRIVE Position Manager technology |
Keysight Technologies, Inc. | M9709A AXIe High-Speed Digitizer |
Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory | StorFly XE Class SSD Family |
Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory | M.2/Mini Card SSDs |
Texas Instruments | Sitara™ AM57x processor |
Cooling & Thermal Management
Degree Controls, Inc. | F660 |
Digi International | Digi Honeycomb |
Microchip Technology Inc. | MCP9600 |
Future Facilities | 6SigmaET |
Phononic | The HEX 2.0 |
Electromechanical/Mechanical Devices
EAO Corporation | Series 84- Halo Compact |
Medical Device Design
ON Semiconductor | Ezairo® 7150 SL |
Microsemi | ZL70550 Ultra-Low-Power Sub-GHz RF Transceiver |
Maxim Integrated | MAX30102 pulse oximeter and heart rate integrated sensor module |
Microwave & RF
Nordic Semiconductor | nRF52832 Multiprotocol Bluetooth low energy/ANT/2.4GHz RF System-on-Chip |
Analog Devices, Inc. | ADF4355 |
Microchip Technology Inc. |
Microchip LoRa® technology evaluation kit |
Texas Instruments | SimpleLink Sub-1 GHz CC1310 wireless microcontroller |
Analog Devices, Inc. | AD9371 |
Peregrine Semiconductor | PE42723 High Linearity RF Switch |
Optoelectronics
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors | Oslux SFH 4786S Infrared LED (IRED) |
Renesas Electronics America Inc | Renesas RAA305315GBM OIS Driver IC |
Texas Instruments | DLP® 0.66-inch 4K ultra-high definition (UHD) chip |
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors | DURIS® P 10 Platform of LED Products |
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors | SYNIOS® P2720 Platform of LED Products |
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors | DURIS® S 2 Platform of LED Products |
Packaging, Interconnects, & Enclosures
OKW Enclosures, Inc. | BODY-CASE |
TE Connectivity | FORGE Drawer |
Hitaltech USA | Modulbox for Embedded |
WAGO Corporation | 221 LEVER-NUTS® Splicing Connectors |
Harwin Inc | Harwin Datamate Coax Multiport 6GHz 50Ω connectors |
Passive Components & Discrete Semiconductors
Wolfspeed, A Cree Company | CAS325M12HM2 High Performance, 1200V, 325A, Silicon Carbide 62mm Half-Bridge Module |
Maxwell Technologies | K2 3-volt (3V), 3,000-farad ultracapacitor cell |
GaN Systems Inc. | GS66516T Top-side cooled 650 V E-mode GaN transistor |
KEMET Corporation | T598 – Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors for Automotive |
West Coast Magnetics | WCM320 Power Inductor |
Power Sources & Conditioning Devices
Tripp Lite | Tripp Lite 3-Phase Rack ATS |
Maxim Integrated | MAX14720 power management integrated circuit (PMIC) |
TransSiP Inc. | TransSiP |
Intersil Corporation | ISL8273M 80A Single Channel Digital PMBus Step-Down Power Module |
Intersil Corporation | ISL9237 USB-C buck-boost battery charger |
Arctic Sand Technologies | ARC1C0608 IC |
Power Integrations | SCALE iDriver IC |
Ericsson Power Modules | BMR466 |
Falcon Electric | Falcon Electric SC On-line UPS |
Texas Instruments | TPS54A20 SWIFT synchronous DC/DC converter |
Carling Technologies | N-Series Hydraulic-Magnetic Circuit Breaker |
Quail Electronics, Inc. | Q-Lock™ Receptacle |
Peregrine Semiconductor | PE29100 GaN FET Driver |
Rapid Prototyping
NXP Semiconductors | Hexiwear |
Artec 3D | Artec Studio 11 |
Sensors
ams AG | AS7000 Biosensor |
ams AG | AS-MLV-P2 MEMS Gas Sensor |
Sensirion AG | Differential Pressure Sensor SDP3x |
Maxim Integrated | MAX14827 IO-Link® Dual-Channel Transceiver |
Sensirion AG | Humidity Sensor SHTW2 |
Software Design
Analog Devices, Inc. | ADIsimFrequencyPlanner |
Altium | Altium Designer 16 |
Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory | vtView |
Omnify Software | Omnify Empower PLM 6.0 |
Special Recognition: Contract Manufacturer Innovation
Mason, Inc. | EAO Corporation |
Special Recognition: Market Disruptor
Peregrine Semiconductor | PE42723 High Linearity RF Switch |
Special Recognition: Social Corporate Responsibility
KEMET Corporation | Conflict minerals initiative and closed-pipe supply chain |
Stanley Goodrich, Public Relations Manager | SYSPRO Green Enablement |
Acopian Technical Company | Acopian Internship Program |
Test & Measurement
Tektronix | P7700 series of TriMode™ probes |
Anritsu Company | MP1800A Signal Quality Analyzer |
Texas Instruments | TI DLP® NIRscan™ Nano Evaluation Module (EVM) |
Vector Software | VectorCAST/Analytics |
Tektronix | DPO70000SX 70 GHz Performance Oscilloscope |
Cascade Microtech, Inc. | MicroVac™ Hi-ISO Coaxial Chuck |
Mentor Graphics Corporation | MicReD Power Tester 600A |
Cascade Microtech, Inc. | Multi-Purpose Electromigration Tester (MPEM Module) |
Tektronix | DMM7510 |
Keysight Technologies | Keysight U1280 Series Handheld Digital Multimeters |
The 2016 ECN IMPACT Award Winners will be announced in a live online event, hosted at www.ecnmag.com at 12:00 noon (EDT) on October 13, 2016.
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