PENTON MEDIA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 'BEST ELECTRONIC DESIGN COMPETITION FOR 2007'
Editors of Electronic Design magazine select 'Best Technologies' and 'Best Designs' of the past year

In its annual ‘Best Electronic Design” issue, the editors of Electronic Design magazine have announced their choices for 2007.

The field of candidates began with the hundreds of briefings and demonstrations Electronic Design’s editors participate in each year. “As editors we're privileged to work on the leading edge with electronics OEMs, find out what they're doing and where they're going,” said Joe Desposito, Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Design magazine. “Every so often, we come across that special product, whether chip, component, module, system or technology that stands out in the crowd.”

The ‘Best Electronic Design’ issue highlights the technologies most significant to advancing electronic design and honors some of the outstanding end-product designs produced in the last year. Looking at the key technologies covered in the magazine’s pages and online during the year together with reader feedback, the technical editors chose the products and solutions they feel had the greatest impact on design this year.

Each Technology Editor chose one or more winners within a particular coverage area. In the analog and mixed-signal realm, Don Tuite cited as one of his choices the MAX109 from Maxim Integrated Products as the best high-speed, 8-bit, analog-to-digital converter. For home-networking, Louis E. Frenzel selected the Moca 1.1 Standard of the Multimedia Over Coax Alliance as a winner. In the components area, Mat Dirjish selected Immersion Corp.’s TouchSense tactile feeback technology for portable device displays as a winner. In the digital arena, Dan Harris chose Mosaid’s Mobilize IP platform as best of the year in the Intellectual Property category. For EDA, David Maliniak picked GateRocket’s RocketDrives as the best FPGA tool for simulation acceleration. For embedded, William Wong selected Kontron’s nanoETXexpress as the best small form factor board in the computers-on-modules category.

Also named are the Best Designs in leading vertical markets. Nominations were solicited from readers and editors selected the winners. The year has proven to be a solid one for technology innovation, including the ‘Best Automotive Design’ winner, a lane-change warning system from Hella, Inc. For the ‘Best Communications Design’, it’s no surprise that Mr. Louis E. Frenzel cites the Apple iPhone for setting standards across all categories. “The iPhone was more than the best mobile phone of 2007, it was also the best consumer technology and perhaps best overall innovation of the year.”

For a complete list of all the winners, go to www.electronicdesign.com/go/best2007