On Tuesday, May 6th, ECN held its first annual IMPACT Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in electronic design and headlining a marvelous EDS 2014. The awards recognized the top products and services across 18 categories spanning the design engineering landscape, and in 2013, the industry beheld no shortage of innovation.
The IMPACT Awards acknowledged unparalleled engineering achievement across the following product categories: Boards and Modules, Contract Manufacturer Innovation, Cooling and Thermal Management, Distributor Innovation, Education Innovation, Electromechanical/Mechanical, Enclosures, Green Technology, Integrated Circuits, Microwave and RF, Optoelectronics, Packaging and Interconnects, Power Sources and Conditioning, Sensors, Solid-State Lighting, Test and Measurement, Tools, Kits, and Reference Designs, and the grand daddy of them, the 2013 Market Disruptor.
The full list of winners is as follows:
Boards and Modules
Agilent Technologies SA for the Agilent U5303A PCIe 12-bit High-Speed Digitizer
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LSI Corporation for the Syncro CS 9271-8i, powered by MegaRAID
Contract Manufacturer Innovation
Mars International for Mars International
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API Technologies for Medical EMS
Cooling and Thermal Management
JARO Thermal for its Three-Phase “Motor to DC” Cooling Fan
Distributor Innovation
Newark element14 for element14 Community’s Open Source Portfolio
Education Innovation
National Instruments for NI myRIO
Electromechanical/Mechanical
EAO Corporation for the Series 04 Illuminated Selector Switches
Enclosures
OKW Enclosures for its OKW Biodegradable Hand Held Enclosures
Green Technology
ABB Inc. for the Terra 53 Multistandard EV Fast Charger
Integrated Circuits
Inphi Corporation for its IN3214SZ Quad Linear Driver,
Precision Measurement Technologies, LLC for the Acam PCap02, &
Linear Technology for its LTC2378-20
Microwave and RF
Humavox for the ETERNA™ Wireless Power Platform
Optoelectronics
Ocular LCD, Inc. for its Crystal Touch: Outdoor & Marine
Packaging and Interconnects
Harwin Inc. for the Gecko connector (G125 series)
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W. L. Gore & Associates for its Type 5G Series of GORE® Spaceflight Microwave/RF Assemblies with ZQA connector (low-profile right-angle connector)
Power Sources and Conditioning
Acopian Power Supplies for the Programmable 1U 750W AC-DC Power Supply Family,
API Technologies for its Tactical Power Supply, &
Vishay Precision Group, Inc. for the Vishay Foil Resistors VCS331Z, VCS332Z, VFP4Z, and CSNG Series
Sensors
Freescale Semiconductor for its FXLC95000CL: Xtrinsic Intelligent Motion-Sensing Platform
Solid-State Lighting
LED Engin, Inc for the LuxiTune Tunable White Light Engine
Test and Measurement
Signal Hound for its BB60A Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer / RF Recorder
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Keithley Instruments, Inc. for the Model 2450 SourceMeter® SMU Instrument
Tools, Kits, and Reference Designs
Microchip Technology Inc. for MPLAB® Harmony
… and the 2013 Market Disrupter goes to:
PLX Technology forExpressFabric
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Humavox for the ETERNA™ Wireless Power Platform
Congratulations to all the winners and to everyone who made the 2014 ECN IMPACT Awards a smashing success!
