The hot 100 products of 2005

Audiocast available: Click here to listen as EDN Editor-in-Chief Maury Wright highlights some of this year's Hot 100 products (listed below) and the trends they represent.

It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it. Every year, EDN's editors receive thousands of product announcements, and it's their job to narrow these thousands of choices into the hundreds of newsworthy items that each year grace the pages of EDN. Now, at the end of the year and working with 15 product categories, our editors must even further narrow down these selections: EDN's hot 100 products of 2005.

Agilent Technologies (now Avago Technologies)

HDJD-S831-QT333 RGB-color-sensor IC

www.avagotech.com

Anadigics

APS3604 active splitter

www.anadigics.com

Analog Devices

AD199x Class D amplifiers

www.analog.com

Intersil

ISL59830 video-driver IC

www.intersil.com

Linear Technology

LT5527 RF mixer

www.linear.com

Semtech

SC606 white-LED driver

www.semtech.com

Silicon Laboratories

Si470x FM tuner

www.silabs.com

Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions

TSL256x light-to-digital converters

www.taosinc.com

Agere

Vision X115 Edge chip set

www.agere.com

Broadcom

StrataVGS III BCM56504 Ethernet switch

www.broadcom.com

Fujitsu Microelectronics

MB87M3400 WiMax system on chip

www.fujitsu.com

Magnolia Broadband

DiversityPlus antenna-diversity chip set

www.magnoliabroadband.com

Mellanox Technologies

InfiniHost III Lx Infiniband chip

www.mellanox.com

Sequoia Communications

SEQ-5400 wideband-CDMA and Edge transceiver

www.sequoiacommunications.com

SiNett

One Edge Ethernet/wireless chip set

www.sinett.com

California Micro Devices

CM1430 and CM1431 filter arrays

www.calmicro.com

Interlink Electronics

Ring force-sensing resistor

www.interlinkelectronics.com

LEDtronics

B618/619 and DB618/619 LED incandescent-bulb replacements

www.ledtronics.com

Littelfuse

SL0902 SMT plasma arrester

www.littelfuse.com

Melexis Microelectronic Integrated Systems

MLS-90316 triaxis Hall sensor

www.melexis.com

On Semiconductor

ESD5Z voltage suppressors

www.onsemi.com

Pericom Semiconductor

S1613XP and S1614XP crystals

www.pericom.com

Stackpole Electronics

HLD series current-sense resistors

www.seielect.com

Artesyn Technologies

KatanaPPB Blade computer

www.artesyn.com

Bittware Inc

T2-PMC PCI mezzanine card

www.bittware.com

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing

Topaz/PMC display controller

www.cwcembedded.com

FieldServer Technologies

ProtoCessor communications controller

www.fieldserver.com

Fingerprint Cards AB

FPC-AM fingerprint sensor

www.fingerprints.com

Octagon Systems

XE-900 single-board computer

www.octagonsystems.com

Parvus Corp

OrbiTrak GSM communications card

www.parvus.com

Pentek

7631A digital receiver

www.pentek.com

Radicom Research Inc

Half-Inch modem

www.radi.com

RadiSys

Endura AB915GM motherboard

www.radisys.com

Tek Microsystems

Quixilica Neptune VXS-1

www.tekmicro.com

Actel

Fusion programmable system chip

www.actel.com

Actel

M7 ProASIC3 (Actel with ARM7 core)

www.actel.com

Cypress Semiconductor

PRoC wireless-enabled programmable analog IC

www.cypress.com

LSI Logic

RapidChip Xtreme2 (SERDES structured ASIC)

www.lsilogic.com

PLX Technology

PEX 8508 PCI Express switch

www.plxtech.com

QuickLogic

PolarPro low-power FPGA

www.quicklogic.com

Bivar

SMTC-0606 surface-mount RGB LED

www.bivar.com

STMicroelectronics

STE59DE100 emitter-switched transistor

www.st.com

Vishay Intertechnology Inc

TLMx100x SMT LEDs

www.vishay.com

Azuro Inc

PowerCentric clock

www.azuro.com

Calypto Design Systems

SLEC sequential equivalence checker

www.calypto.com

Gradient Design Automation

FireBolt analysis tool

www.gradient-da.com

IBM

EinsTimer statistical-timing tool

www.ibm.com

iRoc Technologies

Tfit design tool

www.iroctech.com

Mentor Graphics

Questa SystemVerilog simulator

www.mentor.com

Sigma-C

Solid+ Lithography simulator

www.sigma-c.com

Synplicity

Synplify Premier FPGA physical-synthesis tool

www.synplicity.com

Accelerated Technology

Nucleus BridgePoint UML suite

www.acceleratedtechnology.com

Altium

Altium Designer electronic-product-design tool

www.altium.com

Analog Devices

ADSP-BF537 EZ-kit Lite development kit

www.analog.com

Goal Semiconductor

UniVersaKit development kit

www.goalsemi.com

Sensory Inc

VR Stamp tool kit

www.sensoryinc.com

M-Systems

mDOC hybrid NAND

www.m-systems.com

Samsung

OneNAND hybrid NAND

www.samsung.com

Spansion

Gbit MirrorBit GL NOR

www.spansion.com

LSI Logic

DiMeNsion-3 DVD-recorder chip set

www.lsilogic.com

Silicon Image

SiL 8100 video processor

www.siliconimage.com

Texas Instruments

TMS320DM64x digital-media processor

www.ti.com

iWatt

iW2202 digital single-stage power-factor-correction controller

www.iwatt.com

Power Integrations

DPA-switch family of high-voltage, dc/dc-converter ICs

www.powerint.com

Quicksilver Controls

Silverdust IGB servo controller

www.quicksilvercontrols.com

Silicon Labs

Si8250/1/2 digital-power-development tool

www.silabs.com

Texas Instruments

T2 series of point-of-load dc/dc-converter modules

www.ti.com

Zilker Labs

ZL2005 digital-power IC

www.zilkerlabs.com

Artesyn

DPL20C point-of-load converter

www.artesyn.com

Astec Power

DTX digital dc converter

www.astecpower.com

Cherokee International

Polaris 2 half-brick dc/dc-converter family

www.cherokeepwr.com

EnOcean

STM100 network-transmitter node

www.enocean.com

Foster Transformer

Class 2 plug-ins

www.foster-transformer.com

PowerOne

No-bus point-of-load converters

www.power-one.com

XP Power

fleXPower family of configurable power supplies

www.xppower.com

AMD

Opteron dual-core, 64-bit processor

www.amd.com

Analog Devices

ADSP-BF53x Blackfin processor

www.analog.com/blackfin

Cavium

Octeon Exp multicore processor

www.caviumnetworks.com

Cypress

enCoRe II CY7C63xxx microcontrollers

www.cypress.com

Freescale

MPC8360E PowerQuicc II Pro processors

www.freescale.com

Intel

Dual-core Pentium processor

www.intel.com

Microchip

PIC16F506/12F510 devices

www.microchip.com

Philips Electronics

LPC210x microcontrollers

www.semiconductors.philips.com

Raza Microelectronics

XLR processor

www.razamicroelectronics.com

Texas Instruments

TMS320C672x floating-point DSPs

www.ti.com/c672xpr

Xilinx

MicroBlaze V4 processor core

www.xilinx.com

Agilent Technologies

VEE Pro 7.5

www.agilent.com

Green Hills Software

Integrity PC RTOS

www.ghs.com

The Mathworks

Communications Blockset 3 Simulink extension

www.mathworks.com

Microsoft

Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system

www.microsoft.com

National Instruments

LabView embedded-development module

www.ni.com

Wolfram Research Inc

Mathematica CalcCenter 3 math software

www.wolfram.com

Aeroflex Inc

AIME/AT test system

www.aeroflex.com

Agilent Technologies

E2980A protocol analyzer

www.agilent.com

Keithley Instruments Inc

Model 2602 SourceMeter instrument

www.keithley.com

LeCroy Corp

UWB Tracer MPI protocol analyzer

www.lecroy.com

National Instruments

PXI-5922 digitizer

www.ni.com

Stanford Research Systems

CG635 clock generator

www.thinksrs.com

Tektronix

TDS-6154C digital-storage oscilloscope

www.tektronix.com

Yokogawa Corp of America

DL9000 digital-storage oscilloscope

www.yokogawa.com