WILSONVILLE, OR — A trio of designers from Selex Galileo in the UK took home top honors in Mentor Graphics' annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards.

The winning design team of Simon Hawkes, Mark Butt, Kelly Perryman won for best overall design, besting entries in six categories.

The 24-year-old program recognizes engineers and designers who use Mentor's design tools.

Industry experts judged entries from around the world in six categories representing a wide variety of industries. Judges included Happy Holden, director of electronics technologies, Gentex; Gary Ferrari, technical support director, FTG Circuits; Pete Waddell, president of UP Media, publisher of Printed Circuit Design & Fab and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY; Andy Kowalewski, senior interconnect designer, AdvantagePCB; Charles Pfeil, engineering director, Mentor Graphics; and Rick Hartley, senior principal engineer, L-3 Avionics.

Also this year an honorary judge was included: Dr. Russell F. Henke, founder of the original TLA program.

“With 47 years in electronics, I’ve learned what it takes to make a circuit and PCB board function precisely as it should, especially in this very high-speed world of today. The screaming edge rates drive us into the need for impedance control and high-power integrity, the likes of which we’ve not seen before,” said Hartley. “I have never given a score to a design as high as the one I ranked as the overall winner—it’s just unheard of, how good that design is! Overall, I am amazed at how terrific almost every design was this year.”

Besides the Selex team, the winners for best overall design in the Computers, Blade & Servers, Memory Systems category was Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Andreas Schaefer, Peter Kastl, Andreas Neumann, Mario Lanteri, Markus Wicher, Andreas Titz, Peter Bräu, Benjamin Zeller, George Emanuel Valceanu). In second place was Samsung Electronics (MiKyoung Nam, Sungho Jung, Myung-Hwa Jung, Chunglyol Lee).

Other winners include: for Consumer Electronics & Handhelds, Qualcomm won (Larry Paul, Byron Coleman, Brad Davis, Bruce Fischer, Andy Lejman), and TP Vision Singapore was second (Richard Hoong, Looi Lai Yin, Tan Li Li, Ng Kim Yan).

For Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security & Medical, Emerson Control Techniques (Michael Weinberg, Robert Cottell) won and CiBoard Electronic was second (Michael Schwitzer, Thomas Blasko).

For Military & Aerospace, Aselsan won (Sefika Ozkal Piroglu, Murat Karadeniz, Inanc Dogru, Hakan Cimen, Serkan Ozyurek, Halil Ibrahim Yaslak) and IAI Elta (Benny Lazar, Haouji Jean-Pierr) finished second.

For Telecom, Network Controllers, Line Cards, Alcatel-Lucent won  (Ramfis Rivera-Colon, Rick Mctee, Greg Martin, Bob Novonty, Jeff Bridgett, Conrad Herse, Ken Krueger, Joseph Gomez, Jay Kreminski, Sergio Olmos) and Tellabs was second (Peter Kokko, Juha Ahvenainen, Sami Jokinen, Sauli Kunnas, Jyrki Nyyssönen, Matti Pulkkinen, Jukka Raappana, Hannu Saarikoski, Kimmo Valkonen, Päivi Vallin, Ilari Veki, Jyrki Vuorinen).

For Transportation & Automotive, Johnson Controls won (design team: Scott Smith, Petar Slavov, Krzysztof Russa) and Huizhou Desay was second (Tan Baichuan).

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