Standard-Setting Microcontrollers Nominated for EDN Magazine's 2006 Innovation of the Year
Geneva, February 7, 2007 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a leading innovator among semiconductor manufacturers, has been selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist for this year's EDN Innovator/Innovation Awards. ST's STR910F family of microcontrollers appears on the shortlist for the Microcontroller/Digital Signal Controller of the year. Instituted in 1990, EDN's annual Innovation Awards honor outstanding electronic products and professionals, as selected by a peer jury of engineers and engineering managers worldwide.
ST's STR910F microcontrollers are first in bringing the powerful ARM9E processor core to a level of low-cost solutions using Ethernet-ready microcontrollers with embedded Flash memory and large SRAM. The innovative single-chip concept replaces what typically required several costly ICs, integrating high computational performance, digital signal processing, low-power consumption, large embedded memories, and many system-tracking and monitoring tasks.
The STR910F chips make it economical for a wide range of products to be networked with a central system or other devices via wired or wireless Ethernet, ushering in a new generation of point-of-sale equipment, vending machines, patient monitors, industrial controls, building automation, security applications, and other industrial applications that are fully network accessible.
"Our 2006 roster of Innovation finalists includes great products across the analog, digital, software, and test spaces. We received a tremendous set of mixed-signal ASSP entries, and more processor entries than ever," states EDN Editor-In-Chief Maury Wright. "I look forward to the rigorous voting process and know that the winners will be top notch."
This year's program features 17 categories: Innovator of the Year, Analog ICs, ASSPs
and SoCs, Communication ICs, Digital ICs and Programmable Logic, Digital SoC/IP, EDA (Design and Implementation), EDA (Verification and Analysis), Embedded Systems, Power ICs, Power Systems and Modules, Processors, Sensors and Components, Software, Test and Measurement (Broad Application), Test and Measurement (Application Specific), and Best Contributed Article.
In the next few weeks, EDN's worldwide audience of electronics professionals is encouraged to use their ballot to help select the ultimate winners online at www.edn.com/innovation. Winners will be announced at the 17th Annual EDN Innovation Awards ceremony on April 2, 2007 in San Jose, CA.
About EDN/Reed Business Information
Known as the "Voice of the engineer," Waltham, MA-based EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN China, EDN Japan, and EDN.com. EDN is published by Reed Business Information (www.reedbusiness.com), the largest business-to-business publisher in the U.S. and a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE: RUK and ENL) - a world-leading publisher and information provider operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business industry sectors.
About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications. An unrivalled combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling today's convergence markets. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on Euronext Paris and on the Milan Stock Exchange. In 2006, the Company's net revenues were $9.85 billion and net earnings were $782 million. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
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