UBM's EDN Announces the 2015 Hot 100; Showcases the Electronics Industry's Most Significant Products of the Year

Dec 10, 2015

NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM's EDN announced the 2015 EDN Hot 100 celebrating the electronics industry's most significant products of the year based on innovation, usefulness and popularity. The technologies range from oscilloscopes and boards to wearables, embedded for IoT, desktop milling, motion sensors, open source and more.

"Promises of affordable and efficient LED lighting, smart and useful wearables, devices that sense their surroundings, advanced power systems and much more are becoming a reality thanks to engineers and the innovative electronics products they create. This year's EDN Hot 100 list leaves no doubt as to the advancements of engineering. From analog to wireless and so many more designs, engineers created products that bring innovations to life," said Suzanne Deffree, Executive Editor, EDN.

The EDN Hot 100 award winners include:

ANALOG PRODUCTS

Analog Devices: AD5592R ADC/DAC
NXP Semiconductors: NCF29A1 single chip device
Maxim Integrated: MAXREFDES73# reference design
Linear Technology: LTC5549 microwave mixer
Vesper: VM101 piezoelectric MEMS microphone
Analog Devices: ADE7933/ADE7932 sigma-delta ADCs
Sendyne: SFP102MOD shunt-based precision current measurement module
Texas Instruments: INA250 bidirectional current-sense amplifier

DEVELOPMENT KITS, CAD/CAM

Texas Instruments: TM4C Crypto Connected LaunchPad development kit
Avnet: PicoZed SDR system-on-module
Mathworks: MATLAB and Simulink Student Suite-Raspberry Pi Bundle
imec: MUSEIC development kit
Atmel: Xplained Mini evaluation kits
QuickLogic: TAG-N evaluation kit
STMicroelectronics & ams: AS39230, ST21NFCC, ST33G1M2 reference design
Altera: PLC reference design
PNI Sensor Corp: SENTrode wearables development kit
Altium: CircuitMaker PCB design tool
Other Machine Co: Othermill milling machine
RS Components: DesignSpark Mechanical 3D design software

EDA (IC) TOOLS & IP

Cadence: Innovus implementation system
Mentor Graphics: Xpedition Package Integrator (XPI)
Mentor Graphics: Veloce Power Application software
Cadence: Perspec System Verifier
Knowm, Inc: BS-AF-W Memristor evaluation chip

MEMORY & STORAGE

Maxim Integrated: DS28E80 1-Wire EEPROM
Swissbit: Security series PS-100u
Toshiba: BiCS 3D NAND flash

MICROCONTROLLERS & PROCESSORS

Microchip: dsPIC33EP "GS" Digital Signal Controllers
Ambiq Micro: Apollo MCUs
Atmel: SAM S70 and SAM E70 microcontrollers
Microchip: PIC16F1579 family of 8-bit MCUs
STMicroelectronics: STM32F469/479 series of microcontroller chips
Texas Instruments: MSP-432 Cortex-M-based microcontroller
Renesas: RL78/I1D MCUs
Renesas: RX113 MCUs
Silicon Labs: Happy Gecko USB MCU
Toshiba: TZ2000 series application processors

OPTOELECTRONICS & LIGHTING CONTROL

Cree: XLamp XQ-E High Intensity LEDs
OSRAM: Duris S 10 SMD LED arrays
Cree: TrueWhite LEDs
Samsung: CSP2 flip-chip mid-power LEDs
Global Lighting Technologies: GLT light guides
OSRAM: Ostar Stage multi-element LED
Cree: CR series color-tunable networked LED troffer lights
LUXTECH: Direct-AC LED modules
Infineon: ICL8105 flyback controller and ILD2111 buck controller
Diodes, Inc: AL1791/2/3/4 current-ratio-optimized regulators
ams: AS7211 & AS7221 smart lighting manager ICs
ON Semiconductor: NCL3008x & NCL30030 LED drivers

POWER

Efficient Power Conversion: EPC2035/6 eGaN FETs
Cherry Industrial Solutions: Evaluation kit 2.0 EH Switches
Diodes Inc: DMN2023UCB4 bi-directional MOSFET
Vishay Intertechnology: 196 HVC ENYCAP series energy-storage capacitors
Texas Instruments: UCC28370 and UCC24650 PSR flyback chipset
Linear Technology: LT8640 power management IC
Linear Technology: LTM8055/6 buck-boost micromodule regulators
Powerbox: Medline OBM03 and OBP03 power supplies
Freescale Semiconductor: MC33772 battery-cell controller IC
TDK-Lambda: CUS350M AC/DC power supplies
Power Integrations: CHY103D charger interface IC and InnoSwitch-EP switching ICs
Vicor: PI354x buck regulator

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC

Avnet: Arty evaluation kit
Menta: eFPGA IP cores
Xilinx: SDAccel IDE
Avnet: SmartFusion2 Kickstart Kit
Altera: Quartus II Spectra-Q engine

SENSORS

Bosch Sensortec: BMF055 9-aix sensor
Exar: XR10910 sensor-interface analog front-end IC
Sensory: TrulyHandsfree V4.0 speech-recognition software
ams: TMx4903 sensor modules
Microchip: MGC3030 3D gesture controller
Novelda: XeThru X2M200 and X2M300 noncontact sensor modules
STMicroelectronics: UVIS25 environmental sensor
ams: AS-MLV-P2 MEMS gas sensor
Bosch Sensortec: BME680 environmental sensor
Linear Technology: LTC2983 digital temperature measurement IC

TEST & MEASUREMENT

Tektronix: DPO70000SX oscilloscopes
Keithley Instruments: DMM7510 graphical multimeter
National Instruments: LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite of hardware and software tools
Platinum Tools: Net Prowler PRO Test Kit
Keysight Technologies: IntegraVision PA2201A power analyzer
Keysight Technologies: 34470A and 34465A system/bench DMMs
Keysight Technologies: Signal Studio software
Keysight Technologies: M8062A signal generator and analyzer
Spectrum Instrumentation: M4i.6620-x8, M4i.6621-x8, or M4i.6622-x8 PCIe boards
Averna: RP-6100 series of recorders
LabNation: SmartScope USB oscilloscope
Rohde & Schwarz: Spectrum Rider FPH handheld spectrum analyzer
Picotest: J2150A USB Harmonic Comb Injector
Rohde & Schwarz: R&S FSW85 spectrum analyzer

WIRELESS & NETWORKING

Fujitsu Component America: MBH7BLZ07 Bluetooth Smart module
TE Connectivity: zQSFP+ optical cages
u-blox: TOBY-R201 and LARA-R200 LTE low-date-rate cellular modules
Cypress Semiconductor: PSoc 4 BLE programmable SoC
Marvell: 88MZ300 wireless microcontroller SoC
Texas Instruments: 66AK2L06 SoC
Digilent: chipKIT WiFire board
Samsung: Artik 1, 5, 10 IoT platform module
Cypress Semiconductor: EZ-BLE PRoC module

For the complete list of EDN's Hot 100 products, visit edn.com.

Companies with EDN Hot 100 products seeking use of winner logos should contact: Dan King, Marketing Assistant, at dan.king@ubm.com.

About EDN
EDN is an online community intended to help engineers get from concept to reality. EDN offers deep-dive technical content along with a community experience where the latest in design techniques, technologies, and methodologies meld with the simplest and most useful online interaction tools. EDN celebrates all that is the engineer – from deep down technical views, to informed opinions, to knowledge and schematics sharing, to creative design and all aspects of life as an engineer. From day one of its nearly 60 years, EDN has been written by engineers, for engineers, feeding design know-how and experience back to the engineering community as a trusted source. EDN is part of UBM Americas, a part of UBM plc (UBM.L), the leading B-to-B event producer, publisher, and digital media company for the world's $3 trillion advanced, technology-based manufacturing industry. For more information, visit ubmamericas.com.

For more information, please contact:
Dan King, Marketing Assistant
E: dan.king@ubm.com

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