Annual Awards Program to Take Place April 1, During EE Live!

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/--  UBM Tech, which connects the electronics engineering community with essential business and technical insight, today announced the finalists for the 2014 ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards.  The awards program honors the people and companies behind the technologies and products that are changing the world of electronics.  The awards ceremony where winners are announced will take place on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose during EE Live! 2014, the industry's largest and most comprehensive electronics technology conference and expo in the United States.

"Our finalists this year are a very compelling group, and represent the creativity and innovation behind some of the most radical improvements taking place across all electronics categories," said Patrick Mannion, VP, Brand Director, UBM Tech, Electronics.  "We wish all nominees the best of luck."

Following are the 2014 ACE Awards finalists:

NOMINATION-BASED CATEGORIES

Company of the Year

• Aquantia
• Cadence Design Systems

Design Team of the Year

• Advanced Micro Devices
  AMD Mainstream APU ("Kabini") Team
• Agilent Technologies
  RF Device PXI Test Solution Design Team
• Altera Corporation; Micron Technology
  HMC Stratix V Interoperability Team
• Stratos Product Development
  Stratos Product Development, as design partner to Global Good and Intellectual Ventures Labs
• TE Connectivity
  Automotive Team

Energy Technology Award

• Atmel
  SAM4Cx Platform (AKA, Atmel's Smart Energy Platform)
• Epec Engineered Technologies
  ECplus™ Refrigeration Motor
• Maxim Integrated
  MAX78700/MAX78615 Isolated Energy Measurement Chipset
• Rambus Inc.
  A19 LED Bulb
• Xilinx
  LocalGrid DataFabricTM Architecture, enabled by Xilinx® Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoCs
• Zentrum Mikroelekronik Dresden AG (ZMDI)
  ZSSC1956 Intelligent Battery Monitoring Solution

Executive of the Year

• Advanced Micro Devices
  Lisa Su, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Business Units
• Introspect Technology
  Dr. Mohamed Hafed, CEO
• Rambus Inc.
  Ronald Black, CEO
• Spansion
  John Kispert, CEO
• TE  Connectivity
  Rob Shaddock, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

Innovator of the Year

• Maxim Integrated
  David Andeen
• Novati Technologies
  David Anderson
• Sol-Chip Ltd.
  Dr. Shani Keysar

Internet of Things Technology, Service, or End Application of the Year

• Freescale Semiconductor
  Kinetis minis, the world's smallest 32 bit ARM based microcontrollers
• Hillcrest Labs
  SH-1 sensor hub
• HZO, Inc.
  HZO WaterBlock
• Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc.
  Qualcomm AllPlay™ Smart Media Platform
• Texas Instruments
  SimpleLink(TM) CC3000 BoosterPack for Wi-Fi
• Xively, a subsidiary of LogMeIn
  Xively Cloud Services

Marketing Team of the Year

• Altera Corp
  Stratix 10 FPGA and SoC Marketing Team
• CSR
  CSR uEnergy
• Mouser Electronics
  Kevin Hess & Mouser Marketing Team - Applications & Technologies sites
• ProSoft Technology Inc.
  ProSoft Technology Commercial Marketing Team
• TE Connectivity
  TE Connectivity Marketing Team: "Let's Create Something Brilliant Together"
• Zentrum Mikroelekronik Dresden AG (ZMDI)
  Global ZMDI Marketing and Communications

Open Source Hardware Platform or Application of the Year

• BeagleBoard.org
  BeagleBone Black
• Adapteva
  Parallela
• Seagate
  Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform
• SECO
  UDOO

STEM Impact Award, presented by ECIA

• Altera Corp.
• Avnet   
• Mouser Electronics       
• National Instruments
• Tektronix
• Xilinx    

Ultimate Products - Analog IC's

• Analog Devices
  AD7960 18-bit PulSAR® A/D converter
• Maxim Integrated
  MAX31850 and MAX31851: Cold-junction compensated, 1-Wire thermocouple-to-digital converters
• Sendyne
  Sendyne SFP100 Current, Voltage and Temperature Measurement IC with Internal Coulomb Counter; Part Number SFP1001ASTZA
• Silicon Labs
  Si50x CMEMS Oscillator
• SiTime
  SiT15xx 32 kHz MEMS Oscillators
• Texas Instruments
  LDC1000 Inductance-to-Digital Converter

Ultimate Products - Development Kits

• Agilent Technologies
  Agilent U5340A FPGA Development Kit for High-Speed Digitizers
• Altera Corp
  Cyclone V SoC Development Kit
• CSR
  CSR uEnergy® Starter Development Kit DK-CSR1010-10169
• GizmoSphere
  Gizmo Explorer Kit GZMOKT_4_2013_1
• Inforce Computing
  IFC6410 Snapdragon single-board computer

Ultimate Products - LEDs & Lighting

• Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
  A8517 and A8522 Wide Input Voltage, Fault Tolerant, Independently Controlled Multi-Channel LED Driver ICs with I2C interface
• LED Engin, Inc
  LuxiTune dimmable LED light engine
• Marvell Technology
  88EM8511 LED Driver
• Power Integrations
  LYTSwitch-0 LED-Driver ICs for Low-Power LED Bulbs

Ultimate Products - Logic/Interface/Memory

• Inphi Corporation
  JEDEC .95 Compliant DDR4 Register Part #: iDDR4RCD-GS02
• Maxim Integrated
  DS28E35 DeepCover Secure Authenticator
• Memoir Systems
  Renaissance for Datacom
• NXP Semiconductors
  AXP
• Rambus Inc.
  R+ LPDDR3 Memory Architecture Solution
• Silicon Image
  SiI8620 MHL 3.0 transmitter IC, the SiI9394 MHL 3.0-to-HDMI 2.0 bridge IC, the SiI6031 MHL 3.0 multimedia switch IC and the Sil9679 MHL 3.0 receiver IC

Ultimate Products - Passives, Interconnects and Electromechanical

• AVX
  High Voltage SMD Tantalum Polymer Capacitor TCJ series
• Harwin Inc
  Gecko hi-rel 1.25mm connector system
• Littelfuse, Inc.
  Biased SIDACtor Tertiary Protection Thyristor (SDP0240T023G6)
• Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
  Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Igniter Chip (MEPIC) Resistor
• Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
  FRFC Ultra High Precision Z-1 Foil Flip Chip Resistor

Ultimate Products – Power

• Agilent Technologies
  Agilent N2820A Series High-Sensitivity, High Dynamic Range Current Probes
• Ericsson Power Modules
  Ericsson PKM-NH platform
• International Rectifier
  IR Gen8 IGBT technology platform
• Intersil
  ZL8800 power management IC
• MACOM (M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc.)
  90W GaN in Plastic Power Transistor (MAGX-000035-0900P)
• Microchip
  Digitally Enhanced Power Analog Synchronous Buck DC/DC Controller/MCP19111
• Vicor Corporation
  Configurable VI Chip® PRM® Modules

Ultimate Products - Processors - FPGAs, MCU's, Microprocessors, SoCs

• Freescale Semiconductor
  Kinetis KL02 CSP, MKL02Z32CAF4R
• Silicon Labs
  EFM32 Zero Gecko MCUs
• Texas Instruments
  TI's C2000™ Piccolo™ F2806xF MCUs with InstaSPIN™-FOC motor control technology
• Tilera Corporation
  TILE-Gx72
• Xilinx
  Zynq®-7100 All Programmable SoC - XC7Z100

Ultimate Products - Reference Designs

• Altera Corp
  Altera PowerSoC Reference Designs
• Analog Devices
  JESD204B Xilinx Transceiver Debug Tool
• Freescale Semiconductor
  MC33812 / S12P Small Engine Control Reference Design (KIT33812ECUEVME)
• Texas Instruments
  Gas Sensor Platform with Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE)
• Texas Instruments
  Smart Data Concentrator