News
- Titlee2v Wins EE Times Ultimate Product ACE Award for World’s Fastest Monolithic 12-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converter
- Date05 April 2007
e2v has won a prestigious industry ACE award (Annual Creativity in Electronics) at the EE Times gala celebration held in San Jose, California for its 12-bit 500 Msps (million samples per second) analogue-to-digital converter (ADC).
The EE Times ACE Awards were created to recognise the people, companies and products that show leadership in the electronics industry, honoring those who are leading the way and making positive contributions, the real innovators of technology. Finalists were evaluated by a prestigious panel of judges, comprised of the leading voices of academia, industry and Wall Street executives.
The AT84AS001TP is a 12-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) that can provide 500 Msps data conversion from a single monolithic chip. This breakthrough in ADC design allows system designers to accurately digitise intermediate frequency (IF) signals with frequencies up to 500 MHz at twice the sampling rate of conventional 12-bit ADCs. Thanks to the high-speed silicon technology and proprietary chip architecture used in the AT84AS001TPY Series ADC, a new 12-bit ADC standard has been set without any compromise on power consumption, dynamic range or linearity.
The range of applications for the AT84AS001TP ADC covers telecommunication infrastructure, high IF broadband digital receivers, test and measurement equipment, high-speed data acquisition and defence radar and communications systems.
“e2v received the ACE Award because they kicked off the new high-resolution family with a monolithic, 12-bit, analog-to-digital (A/D) converter boasting a clock frequency of 500 Msamples/s making it a great leap forward in high speed A/D,” commented Brian Fuller, editor in chief of EE Times.
“e2v’s is happy to bring this unique solution to leading designers in the world working on products and applications commanding very high analogue to digital throughput and resolution levels” said Christian Olivier, General Manager of the Advanced Imaging and Semiconductors division of e2v.
From San Jose where he received the award, Thierry Gouvernel, General Manager of e2v’s Broadband Data Converter & Microprocessors Business Unit, commented: “this award is a great recognition for our experienced design team’s achievements in very fast ADCs. They are already working on the next performance challenges in order to keep offering leading-edge specifications to our customers”.
e2v Press contact:
Sylvie Mattei, Communications Manager
Phone: +33 4 76 58 30 25
Email: sylvie.mattei@e2v.com
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
e2v technologies plc
e2v technologies is a leading designer, developer and manufacturer of specialised components and subsystems, falling within two product groups:
· Electronic tubes
· Sensors and Semiconductors
These products enable some of the world’s leading OEMs to deliver innovative systems for medical and science, aerospace and defence, and commercial and industrial applications.
For the year ended 31 March 2006, e2v achieved sales of £112m and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (e2v.l). In July 2006 e2v technologies plc acquired a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of specialised electronic components and sub-systems, based in Grenoble, France. The acquisition represents an opportunity to strengthen the Group’s position as a major global provider of specialised electronic components and subsystems.
e2v’s products are supplied into three core market areas:
· Medical & Science: Sensor technology includes imaging sensors for intra-oral and panoramic dental X-ray, mammography, life science applications and X-ray microscopy. Electronic tubes are the enabling technology behind radiotherapy cancer treatments, microwave medical therapy and high-energy physics.
· Aerospace & Defence: Sensor technology includes military surveillance, targeting and guidance, space-based imaging and astronomy, radar & electronic warfare and broadband data converters and microprocessors for aerospace applications. Electronic tubes provide the enabling technology behind radars, electronic countermeasures (ECM), electronic warfare and satellite communications.
· Commercial & Industrial: Sensor technology includes marine radars, industrial safety sensors, automotive radars and alarms, thermal imaging cameras used by fire fighters, CCD and CMOS high resolution line scan cameras for industrial inspection. Electronic tubes provide enabling technology behind TV broadcast, satellite communications, marine radar and food & industrial processing.
The overall purpose of the business is to grow sustainable shareholder value whilst appropriately meeting the expectations of customers, people, partners, suppliers and the wider community. e2v’s vision is to create value through bright ideas in technology and materials science. The Company’s mission is to place customers at the heart of the business, providing enabling products of premium quality that extend technical barriers and enhance the competitive position of our partners.
e2v has approximately 1,800 employees worldwide with three UK based manufacturing sites in Chelmsford, Lincoln and High Wycombe, and one in Grenoble, France. In addition e2v has sales offices in the UK, USA, Germany and France and Hong Kong, as well as a network of distributors and representatives covering other key territories.
Further information on e2v technologies plc is available from its website, www.e2v.com
EE Times
For more information, visit http://www.eetimes.com/ace