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Mentor Graphics Announces Winners of its 19th Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards
Written by Tracy Heffner
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
SANTA CLARA, CA – Mentor Graphics Corp. announced the winners of its 19th Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards at a banquet in coordination with PCB Design Conference West. This year the program attracted a record number of submissions from countries around the world, including Germany, Switzerland, China, Norway, Singapore, Austria, Canada, Korea, India, Israel, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
Industry experts judged entries in six categories: PC Computers and Peripherals; Consumer Electronics and Handhelds; Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security and Medical; Military and Aerospace; Telecommunication Switches, Network Servers, Base Stations and Computer Mainframes; Transportation and Automotive; and Best Design Overall.
“Mentor Graphics is committed to the PCB designer community, and our PCB Technology Leadership Awards program provides the opportunity to showcase the most innovative and talented designers worldwide,” said Henry Potts, vice president and general manager, systems design division, Mentor Graphics. “This year we saw a significant increase in the complexity of the submissions, with designs including high-speed, pin densities and layers, as well as use of advanced PCB fabrication like microvias. This further validates our investment in innovative design technologies, thus enabling designers to overcome these challenges and deliver competitive electronic products, faster.”
This year’s panel of judges included: Pete Waddell, president, UP Media Group; Rick Hartley, industry consultant; David Wiens, director of product development, systems design division, Mentor Graphics; Happy Holden, senior technologist, systems design division, Mentor Graphics; and Gary Ferrari, industry consultant.
This year’s Technology Leadership Awards winner for the Best Overall Design is the PCB design team from Siemens, including: Helmut Riedl, Manfred Hofstatter, Michael Heider and Alfred Fuchs. The Siemens team’s winning entry is a reconfigurable FPGA-based signal processing platform on PCI-X. This design was created using Mentor Graphics Board Station RE, HyperLynx and AutoTherm tools.
Mentor Graphics will honor award winners at a banquet on Wednesday, March 28th, at the Villa Montalvo Center in Saratoga, California.
The 2007 Technology Leadership Award Winners are:
Category: Best Overall Design Company Name: Siemens Designer/s: Helmut Riedl, Manfred Hofstatter, Michael Heider and Alfred Fuchs Design Description: Reconfigurable FPGA-based signal processing platform
Category: Consumer Electronics & Handhelds Company Name: Qualcomm Inc. Designer/s: Larry Paul, George Cordero, Mahmoud Azartash, Anil Kukreja, Vinh Nguyen, Andy Green and Vivek Khushoo Design Description: RUMI II Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chip emulation card
Category: Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security & Medical Company Name: Gage Applied Technologies Inc. Designer/s: Chantal Holloway and Guillaume Turgeon Design Description: Rabbit high-speed digitizers
Category: Military & Aerospace Company Name: L-3 Communications Designer/s: Jason Harames and Rolf Thompson Design Description: XFUSION Hybrid Switch Model (HSM) CCA
Category: PC Computers and Peripherals Company Name: Fujitsu-Siemens Designer/s: Andreas Schaefer, Markus Wicher and Harald Lugert Design Description: Mainboard for business PCs
Category: Telecommunication Switches, Network Servers, Base Stations and Computer Mainframes Company Name: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Designer/s: Peter Dill Design Description: Controller board for a 64x64 port high-performance optical switch
Category: Transportation and Automotive Company Name: AVL List GmbH Designer/s: Wolfgang Rinner, Josef Haring, Franz Summerauer and Alfred Poelzi Design Description: Dual gigabit, Ethernet concentrator (high-speed communication and control interface)
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