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eg3 Tech Choice (ETC) Awards - Spring, 2008

What technology represents the future? And what future is practical? To find out, the eg3.com editorial staff identified technologies that are:

• Imminent: coming very soon to deployability.
• Broad: applicable to a broad range of designs and usages (not for the few, but for the many).
• Practical: ones that have eval kits, demos, papers, seminars - ways that practical designers can learn about them and deploy them in their own designs. Not (just) "gee whiz" technologies but "how about that" technologies.

For each, we surveyed our design audience of over 42,000 registered subscribers to identify those new products that cleverly capitalized on these trends and helped bring their intellectual promise to real applications for the real world. Two categories are awarded: editors' choice (the best products chosen by our editorial staff), and readers' choice (the top readers' pick in each category (one only)).

eg3.com Tech Choice (ETC) Awards Winners, Spring 2008

For the winners of Spring 2008, we identified the selected three of the most exciting new products in these key technology areas:

• Virtualization - new software technologies that "virtualize" the hardware space.
• Embedded Processors - new chip announcements, especially those of practical wide potential for deployment.
• Embedded Tools - new tools to make embedded design "easier" if not "easy."
• FPGAs and Tools - the continuing deployment of "FPGAs" and FPGA-tools for the masses.
• MicroTCA - the roll out of MicroTCA primarily but not exclusively in the telecommunications space.
• Industrial Wireless: M2M, Zigbee, & Beyond - deploying wireless technologies to make old applications better and to enable new technologies limited only by one's imagination.

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