WILSONVILLE, OR -- Abaco Systems took home top honors in the annual Mentor Graphics PCB Technology Leadership Awards, announced today.
Qualcomm and Visteon were repeat category winners, the former for Consumer Electronics & Handhelds and the latter for Transportation & Automotive.
The program recognizes engineers and designers who use innovative methods and design tools to address complex PCB systems design challenges and produce industry-leading products. Now in its 26th year, it is said to be the longest-running competition of its kind in the electronic design automation industry.
Prominent experts in the PCB industry judged entries from around the world in six categories that represent the gamut of end-market applications. The TLA contest is open to any designs created with Mentor Graphics PCB software. Judging is based on design complexity and overcoming associated challenges, such as small form factor, high-speed protocols, multi-discipline team collaboration, advanced PCB fabrication technologies and design-cycle time reduction.
Judges included Michael Creeden, San Diego PCB CEO and founder; Gary Ferrari, FTG Circuits technical support director; Rick Hartley, RHartley Enterprises principal engineer; Steve Herbstman, SHLC founder and lead designer; Happy Holden, Gentex (retired); Andy Kowalewski, Metamelko senior interconnect designer; Pete Waddell, president of UP Media and publisher of PCD&F/CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY Magazine; and Susy Webb, Fairfield Nodal senior PCB designer.
2015 Technology Leadership Award Winners
Best Overall Design
Company: Abaco Systems Ltd.
Design team: Jim Rose, Zeshan Hussain, Eric Mills, Peter Woodruff (Xpedition Enterprise)
Computers, Blade & Servers, Memory Systems
1st place: Adcom
Design team: Moshe Frid, Elad Marciano, Alon Kukliansky (Xpedition Enterprise)
2nd place: Seagate Technology
Design team: Keith MacLean, Andre' Dutko (Xpedition Enterprise)
Consumer Electronics & Handhelds 2015
1st place: Qualcomm Technologies
Design team: Bryan Selby, Scott Moyes(Xpedition Enterprise)
2nd place: LG Electronics
Design team: Kyu-seon Ahn, Sang-geun Kim, Sang-don Kim (Xpedition Enterprise)
Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security & Medical
1st place: Keysight Technologies
Design team: Michael Villaruel, Ryan Carlino, Steve Draving, Don Logelin, Lewis Dove, Nick Fernandez, Jeanne Snow (Xpedition Enterprise)
2nd place: Sintecs BV
Design team: Tom Berends, Paul ten Wolde, Wouter Stapper, Henk Mengerink, Maarten Tettero, Andrei Tuturou (Xpedition Enterprise)
Military & Aerospace
1st place: BAE Systems – Electronic Systems – Rochester (UK)
Design team: Tim Chapman, Tim Rotter, Steve Mann, Peter Frid, Jack Silson
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
2nd place: ASELSAN MGEO
Design team: Umur Akıncı, Cenk Erim, Ahmet Mert, Emre Akdemir, Serap Sarıkavak, Recep Kızılkaya, Alper Akca, Kazım Yumbul, Cihan Aslan, Ozan Tekdur, Seda Karatekin, Sezer Yıldız, Halil İbrahim Yaşlak (Xpedition Enterprise)
Telecom, Network Controllers, Line Cards
1st place: Coriant Oy
Design team: Sauli Kunnas, Hannu Saarikoski, Paavo Perälä, Sami Jokinen, Jyrki Vuorinen, Jycke Sulka-aho, Leo Haapavuo, Jyrki Nyyssönen, Päivi Vallin, Juha Ahvenainen (Xpedition Enterprise)
2nd place: Nokia
Design team: Markus Välkky, Olli-Antti Laine, Pekka Kähkölä, Ari Oinas, Jarmo Leskelä, Janne Toppila (Xpedition Enterprise)
Transportation & Automotive
1st place: Visteon Corp.
Design team: Sadeesh Ramachandran, Nagarajan Mani, Ankita Karambelkar, Srikumar (Xpedition Enterprise)
2nd place: Visteon Corp.
Design team: Sadeesh Ramachandran, Niyazahmed Attar, Nagarajan Mani, Sowrirajan Senthil Kumar (Xpedition Enterprise)
An on-demand webinar highlighting industry trends and the winners of the 2015 Technology Leadership Awards competition will be posted shortly at mentor.com/go/tla.
