Award recipients were selected in eight categories.

ASIC and IC Design Tools

• Cadence Design Systems, Inc. — Cadence Litho Electrical Analyzer

Design Verification Tools

• Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. — Open Verification Methodology

Interconnect Technologies and Components

• Amphenol TCS — XCede

Semiconductors and ICs

• Altera Corporation — Stratix III FPGA

Semiconductors and ICs (IP)

• Rambus — The XDR^TM Memory Architecture

Structured/Platform ASIC, FPGA, and PLD Design Tools

• Lattice Semiconductor — LatticeXP2 FPGA Family

System-Level Design Tools

• FuturePlus Systems, Corp. — FS5000 Jitterlyzer

Test and Measurement Equipment

• Agilent Technologies — Agilent N6705A DC Power Analyzer