Anadigmvortex Named Finalist for EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards

CAMPBELL, Calif. � February 21, 2003 � Anadigm� today announced that Anadigmvortex, the company�s latest-generation field programmable analog array (FPAA) product family, has been selected as a finalist for the EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards competition in the category of analog ICs and discrete semiconductors. The exclusive awards program sponsored by EDN Magazine is dedicated to honoring outstanding engineering products in the electronics industry.

�We�re very pleased that our achievements in developing a new platform for analog design have been recognized by the industry�s most prominent source of information and analysis for design engineering,� said Bill McLean, President and CEO at Anadigm�. �Over the past 13 years, EDN�s awards program has honored a long line of distinguished products and technologies, and we�re proud to be included among the leaders in the electronics industry considered for the 2002 award.�

Anadigm�s� Anadigmvortex is the industry's first product family to enable the design and implementation of dynamically reconfigurable analog circuits � a breakthrough capability that allows analog functions to be controlled as a peripheral in an embedded microcontroller-based system. Combining powerful new EDA software, configurable analog modules (CAMs), and advanced FPAAs, Anadigmvortex reduces the time required for analog design implementations from months to minutes.

With Anadigm�s� second-generation product family, users can design and implement circuits using the intuitive AnadigmDesigner�2 software. Time to solution is drastically reduced compared with an analog ASIC or discrete implementation, and designers can update the circuit functionality in real time using automatically generated C-code. Dynamic reconfigurability enables real-time reload of new device configurations, allowing the device operation to be "time-sliced." System integrity is also preserved through manipulation of the tuning or the construction of any part of the circuit without interrupting operation of the FPAA.

A panel of EDN�s technical editors selected finalists for the 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards in seventeen categories. Award-winners will be determined by EDN readers through an online ballot on the EDN Access Web site (www.edn.com), where reviewer comments for each product have been posted. The results of the ballot are to be announced at an awards ceremony on April 22 and published in the May 1 issue of EDN.

A trial copy of AnadigmDesigner�2 is available for free download at: http://www.anadigm.com/Down_05_a.asp.

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About Anadigm�

Anadigm� combines the three most powerful design trends from the digital world (design automation, field programmable ICs, real-time updating) into a platform for analog design, greatly reducing cost of ownership for analog signal conditioning and processing functions across many market segments. Founded in January 2000 as a venture-backed technology spinoff from Motorola, the company maintains U.S. headquarters in Campbell, Calif., and European headquarters in Crewe, U.K. For further information, visit Anadigm� on the Web at http://www.anadigm.com.

About EDN

EDN, a premier design magazine dedicated to the electronics industry, is published by Reed Business Information. Headquartered in Newton, Mass., EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, END Europe, EDN Asia, EDN China, EDN Japan, and EDN Access, the only full-content EOEM publication and Web site.

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