This is the third consecutive year that National has won this award. Previous award winners include the LMH1251 video converter and the Mobile Pixel Link interface and chipset for camera phones and small-format displays.

For more than 20 years, the Design News Awards have recognized the most significant individual and corporate technical achievements in the electronics community. Design News, a Reed Business publication, is distributed monthly to more than 170,000 engineers who design products ranging from motion control to spacecraft. The September 24 edition of Design News features this year’s winners.

“Today, the only option for high-speed color copying is a large and expensive office machine about the size of a filing cabinet,” said Antonio Visconti, vice president of National Semiconductor’s Data Conversion Division. “National’s LM98714 AFE enables new, cost-effective architectures that achieve high copying speeds in smaller, desktop-size machines. Its combination of features lets designers place the AFE directly on the CCD board, which optimizes system partitioning and reduces electro-magnetic interference (EMI), while enabling high-speed copying.” -National SEmiconductors