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This section provides information on the finalists of the 2004 innovation competition at the 15th Annual Innovation Awards of EDN periodical held at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco, California on March 7, 2005. while working on her lawn mower, Susanne Paul, a design manager for Silicon Laboratories, mulled over the challenge of overcoming the gate-oxide-breakdown problem in complementary metal oxide semiconductors power amplifiers. Paul implemented a circuit approach rather than a device-physics approach, allowing innovation at the circuit level using standard process technology. Paul discovered a way of distributing the high voltages generated during amplification among multiple devices. Meanwhile, AMCC designed the PRS 5-gigabytes per second full-duplex aggregate bandwidth and PRS 20-gigabytes per second full-duplex aggregate bandwidth packet-routing switches for distributed architectures, which allow the switch fabrics to pair with network processors with or without a dedicated centralized fabric. Moreover, the Webench active-filter design system from National Semiconductor consolidates the tools to design an active filter in one place, allowing designers to take advantage of virtually any available transfer function with just a few clicks on a Web site. The product supports a selection of filter types and users can choose from several filter approximations.

The article discusses the 5th Annual Customer Technology Symposium organized by LodgeNet Interactive Corp. that was held in San Francisco, California during which several technical professional presented their views on mobile technology, its software application and bandwidth. According to Henry Harteveldt, chief research officer at Atmosphere Research Group, hotel guests are more likely to use technologies rather than general public.

Provides information on a trade show to the held by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association in San Francisco, California in April 2005. Features of digital video recorder set-top boxes to exhibited by Motorola in the event; Challenge faced by exhibitors regarding the bandwidth efficiency of their products; Involvement of Microsoft in the event.