WILSONVILLE, OR – A pair of designers from India took home top honors in Mentor Graphics’ annual PCB design awards.

Rakesh Raju Nadimetla and Radesh Gupta of Wipro Technologies won for best overall design in the printed circuit board design software company’s annual Technology Leadership Award contest. The program recognizes engineers and computer aided design designers who use innovative methods and design tools to address today's complex PCB systems' design challenges.

Other winners include:

Computers, Blade & Servers, Memory Systems

1st place, GE Intelligent Platforms, UK, Mike Tapp, Rob Savage, Bryan Ledger, Stuart Connolly
2nd place, PFU, Japan, Junichi Nakagawa, Yuusuke Amakata, Seiji Yoshinaga, Yasuhide Chigawa

Consumer Electronics & Handhelds

1st place, LG Electronics, South Korea, Junhyeok Lee, Inmu Kim, Kun Joo
2nd place, Avolites, UK, Alwyn Fernandes

Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security & Medical

1st place, Verigy, Germany, Oliver Knitterscheidt
2nd place, Agilent, China, Bo Yao

Military & Aerospace

1st place, GE Intelligent Platforms, UK, Jim Rose, Michael Brewin, David Hart
2nd place, SELEX Galileo S.p.A., Italy, Maurizio Pagani, Matteo Seminari, Aldo Boschiroli, Gregorio Vitale

Telecom, Network Controllers, Line Cards

1st place, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Mei Wong, Carboy Zhang Li Bo, Mark Darby, Aydin Cokoyoglu
2nd place, F5 Networks, USA, Debra Bandimere, Jarom Daines, Eric Daines, Jerry Canterbury

Transportation & Automotive

1st place, Johnson Controls, USA, Scott Smith, Siddesh Vishwanath, Krzysztof Russa
2nd place, Huizhou Desay, China, Tan Baichuan

The program is open to users of Mentor’s CAD software.

“The complexity of the designs and the commitment of the teams that worked on the designs is a testament to the talents and innovative abilities of engineers and designers involved,” said Pete Waddell, president of UP Media Group and publisher of PCD&F/CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY. “They certainly earned the respect of those of us fortunate to be involved with the program.”

Industry experts judged entries from around the world in five categories. Judges included Waddell; Happy Holden, retired and former CTO, Foxconn Advanced Technology; Gary Ferrari, technical support director, FTG Circuits; Andy Kowalewski, senior interconnect designer, AdvantagePCB, and Rick Hartley, senior principal engineer, Avionics Division of L-3 Communications.