NXP Semiconductors Wins EDN Innovation Award

San Jose, CA. & Eindhoven, Netherlands - Recently, NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, announced that EDN Magazine awarded the ARM7 based LPC2478 its Innovative Product of the Year Award for Microcontrollers and Cores. Instituted in 1990, this awards program honors outstanding electronic products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the past year. EDN announced the winners of the 18^th Annual Innovation Awards at a ceremony on April 14, 2008, in San Jose, CA.

"We are extremely pleased to receive this award as recognition for our continuing commitment to innovation," said Geoff Lees, vice president and general manager, microcontroller product line, NXP Semiconductors. "The EDN Innovation Award is significant because it is voted on by a jury of peers, representing a worldwide audience of electronics engineers. It's a great reflection on our company and the team is extremely excited about this win. We look forward to ongoing success in developing state-of-the-art embedded solutions and providing our customers the broadest ARM MCU offering available."

"Every year the difficulty of technical challenges increases; the pressures of schedule, cost, and energy efficiency grow; and the resources available to design teams dwindle. That makes the achievements of this year's EDN Innovation Award winners all the more impressive," stated Ron Wilson, executive director of EDN Worldwide. "Selected by their peers in the design community for their outstanding results, these innovators stand in the front rank of the best and brightest electronics engineering has to offer."

The NXP LPC2478 microcontroller is the industry's only ARM7 flash-based MCU featuring two ARM high-speed buses (AHB). Dual AHB buses enable the chip to handle the simultaneous operation of multiple high-bandwidth peripherals including 10/100 Ethernet, USB host/On-The-Go/device, integrated LCD (QVGA) and two CAN channels.

The LPC2478 also features 512 kbytes of flash that supports 128-bit accesses and a memory accelerator that enables the system to execute serially from flash directly at full speed, up to 72 MHz, without having to move the code into RAM. Offering significant savings in cost, area and power consumption, the LPC2478 is ideal for a wide range of industrial, consumer, retail and medical systems using LCD panels and requiring network or Internet connectivity.

For more information on the LPC2478 or any NXP products please visit: http://www.standardics.nxp.com/.

About the EDN Innovation Awards

EDN was the first to create an award honoring people, products, and technologies that have shaped the electronics industry. The EDN Innovation Awards program also nurtures the growth of engineering careers and the future of electronics by donating a portion of the proceeds from the Innovation Awards ceremony to an engineering university selected by the Innovator of the Year. (www.EDN.com/innovation18)

SOURCE: NXP Semiconductors