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Once again, qualified readers of EE Times and eeProductCenter have selected the best of the best -- the top products in each of seven categories in our quarterly Ultimate Products survey. The categories are Analog, RF & Microwave, Logic/Programmable Logic and Interface, Test & Measurement, Processors and Memory, Power and Interconnection/Passives and Electromechanical. The results highlighted here are for products introduced during the first quarter of 2008. Read on to see which products you and your peers deem worthy. In the always popular Analog IC arena, National Semiconductor's PowerWise LMV1088 dual-input microphone array amplifier takes the number one slot. One voter says: "It is refreshing to see that companies can still see the usefulness of analog and bring innovative products that in the last decade people have become used to throwing digital processing at." For Microwave & RF, Silicon Labs' Si4736 fully-integrated AM/FM radio receivers top the list. For Logic and Programmable logic, Silicon Image's PinnaClear SiI9223 four-port receiver and the SiI9127 two-port receiver are the top products. STMicroelectronics's DTV150 digital TV hardware platform is clearly the winner for Processors and Memory. One voter says: "The full featured nature of this processor set and its low cost should significantly help the process of making HDTVs higher quality and lower cost." For IP&E components, Allegro Microsystems' multi-chip LED modules is number one, while Infineon's energy-saving CoolMOS 900 V power MOSFET family takes the top slot for Power. Finally, in Test & Measurement, Pico Technology's PicoScope 3425 PC oscilloscope is the number one instrument. In case you were wondering, here's how Ultimate Products works: Our editors select up to 10 of the most popular products posted at www.eeProductCenter.com during the calendar quarter. Then, using an electronic balloting process, we submit the products with the accompanying editorial reviews to selected, qualified readers. Those readers score the products by technical significance and usability on a scale of 1 through 10, with 1 being the highest score. The product ranked No. 1 in each category was judged as most technically significant for that category. Relative usability rankings and selected reader comments are also reported. More than 1,000 of you helped to choose these products. As always, we are grateful for your enthusiastic participation. Patrick Mannion Editor-in-Chief, TechInsights and eeProductcenter.com pmannion@techinsights.com
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