COMPANY OF THE YEAR

Advantest Corporation

ARM

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Maxim Integrated

DESIGN TEAM OF THE YEAR

OpenCL Design Team
Altera Corporation

MAX2173 Design Team
Maxim Integrated

nRF51822 Bluetooth low energy and 2.4GHz proprietary SoC development team
Nordic Semiconductor

TFA9887 Mobile Audio Design Team
NXP Semiconductors

SuVolta's DDC Transistor Technology Team
SuVolta, Inc.

Design Team of the Year sponsored by Mouser

ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AWARD

Broadcom Corporation
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)

Maxim Integrated
Zeus platform

Future Electronics and Renesas Electronics America

Energy Harvesting Platform, featuring the RL78 MCU

STMicroelectronics
FD-SOI

Xeralux
XLE Series Retrofit

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR

Haruo Matsuno
President and CEO
Advantest Corporation

Lip-Bu Tan
President and CEO
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Ajit Manocha
CEO
GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Dr. Ted Tewksbury
CEO
Integrated Device Technology

Benedetto Vigna
Executive Vice President and General Manager
STMicroelectronics Analog, MEMS & Sensors Group

INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

Altera Corporation
Dr. Mike Peng Li
Altera Fellow

Maxim Integrated
Steve LaJeunesse
Strategic Marketing Manager, Medical Equipment Segment

RACO Wireless
John Horn
President

Texas Instruments
Yogesh Ramadass
Electrical Design Engineer

ULTIMATE PRODUCTS

Analog ICs

Analog Devices Inc.
Analog Devices AD9671 octal ultrasound AFE with JESD204B Interface

Integrated Device Technology
IDT 4M and 4E series of MEMS Oscillator

Intersil
ISL37231

Maxim Integrated
MAX31865 RTD-to-Digital Converter

Texas Instruments
ADS42JB69

Development Kits/Evaluation Boards

Altera Corporation
Stratix V Advanced Systems Development Kit

Freescale Semiconductor
MPC8308 Networked Smart Gateway

NXP Semiconductors
DALI and DMX512 Development Platforms for Wired Lighting Control Networks

STMicroelectronics
M24LR Discovery Kit

Texas Instruments
Bluetooth low energy SensorTag kit

LED's & Lighting

Cirrus Logic
CS1610/11

International Rectifier
IRS2980 LEDrivIR™ IC

Philips LumiLeds
Luxeon Z LEDs

Power Integrations
LYTSwitch

Texas Instruments
TPS92550 and TPS92551 LED driver micro-modules

Logic/Interface/Memory

Altera Corporation
Cyclone V SoC

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
Marvell^® DragonFly Platform

Micron Technology
Hybrid Memory Cube

NXP Semiconductors
CBTL05024 high-performance, low-power switch for Thunderbolt interface

STMicroelectronics
Mystique

Passives, Interconnects and Electromechanical

ITT Interconnect Solutions
VEAM Rectangular Plastic Connector (VRPC Series)

L-com Inc.
TRD695RA Right Angle Ethernet Cable

Tag-Connect, LLC
TC2030-CTX and TC2030-CTX-NL Tag-Connect Plug-of-Nails(TM) Cable for ARM Cortex

TE Connectivity
STRADA Whisper Backplane Connector

Vishay Intertechnology
LPS1100 Thick Film Resistor

Power

CUI Inc
NDM2Z Series Digital POL Module Family

International Rectifier
Third Generation CHiL Devices / IR35xx

Linear Technology
LTC6804

Renesas Electronics America
RAA20770X Series of mini-POL converters

Texas Instruments
High Performance Isolated Power product line-UCD3138

Processors (FPGAs, MCUs, Microprocessors)

Broadcom Corporation
28nm XLP-200 Processor

Freescale Semiconductor
QorIQ T4240 communications processor

STMicroelectronics
STM32 F3

Texas Instruments
TCI6636 Multicore Processors

Xilinx, Inc.
Virtex-7 H580T FPGA/XC7VH580T

Sensors

ams AG
AS3935 - Frankling Lightning Sensor

Linear Technology
SmartMesh^® IP LTC5800-IPR

Microchip Technology Inc.
MGC3130 Electrical-Field-Based 3D Tracking and Gesture Controller, Featuring GestIC^® Technology

Sensor Platforms Inc
Sensor Platforms' FreeMotion Library

STMicroelectronics
L3G4IS

Software

Apache Design, Inc. (subsidiary of ANSYS)
RedHawk-3DX

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Cadence Incisive Debug Analyzer

MathWorks
Simulink R2012b

Triad Semiconductor
ViaDesigner

Xilinx, Inc.
Vivado Design Suite

Test & Measurement Systems and Boards

Agilent Technologies
Infiniium 90000 Q-Series Oscilloscope

Cascade Microtech, Inc.
Power Device Production Test System APS200TESLA

National Instruments
PXIe-5644R RF Vector Signal Transceiver

Tektronix
BSA286C Bit Error Rate Tester

Teledyne LeCroy
LabMaster 10 Zi 65 GHz Oscilloscope

Wireless/RF

Analog Devices Inc.
AD9914/15 direct digital synthesizer

Broadcom
BCM4335 5G Wi-Fi chip for smartphones

Linear Technology
LTC5585 Wideband IQ Demodulator

RFaxis, Inc.
RFX5000 Single-Chip/Single-Die 5GHz Wireless LAN RF Front-End IC in Pure CMOS

SkyCross
VersiTune-LTE Tunable Antenna Module

Jim Williams CONTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Winner to be announced

IEEE AWARD CATEGORIES

IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society
To Be Announced

IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award
To Be Announced