WILSONVILLE, OR – A team of designers from Alcatel-Lucent Italia walked away with top honors in Mentor Graphics' 25th annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards.
Fabrizio Crippa, Giovanni Villa, Sergio Pirovano, Massimo Pollastri, Stefano Cornini, Luigi Aldeghi, Fabio Villa, Paolo Scotti, Massimiliano Severi, Ivan Malaspina, Fabio Frigerio and Donato Maggi used Xpedition Enterprise to seal the victory, Mentor said today.
The program was launched in 1988 to promote and recognize printed circuit board design excellence using Mentor's CAD tools. Experts in the PCB industry judged entries from around the world in six categories representing a variety of industries,
Judges included Happy Holden, formerly of Gentex, HP and Merix; Gary Ferrari, FTG Circuits technical support director; Pete Waddell, president of UP Media, the publisher of PCD&F and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY; Andy Kowalewski, Metamako LP senior interconnect designer; Rick Hartley, L-3 Communications/Avionics Division senior principal engineer; Susy Webb, Fairfield Nodal senior PCB designer; and Charles Pfeil, Mentor's Design Division director of engineering.
Besides the Alcatel team that won for Best Overall Design, 2014 Technology Leadership Award Winners included
Computers, Blade & Servers, Memory Systems
1st place: Seagate Technology
Design team: Andre’ Dutko, Keith MacLean
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
2nd place: Sanmina
Design team: Damodhar Chakravarthy Mallisetty, Tom Thomas, Birla Manoharan
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Consumer Electronics & Handhelds
1st place: Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
Design team: Larry Paul, Sanat Kapoor, Stephen Baker, Danlin Xiang, Michael Tex, Scott Asbill
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
2nd place: Wizlogix Pte. Ltd
Design team: Vivian Ong Ai Lian, Tan Shean Huey, Romeo Pineda
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security & Medical
1st place: Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Design team: Andreas Schaefer, Timo Bruderek, Joachim Bub, Andreas Titz, Willi Neukam, Peter Bräu, Werner Hasubick, Rudi Häußermann, George Emanuel Valceanu
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
2nd place: Valtronic SA
Design team: Gabriel Gay, Van Ly Mai, Cristian Anton, Bert de Vries
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Military & Aerospace
1st place: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Design team: Dave Petrick, D.Albaijes, Banks Walker
Using: PADS
2nd place: BAE Systems
Design team: Matthew Offredi, Gary Chambers, Daniel Smith, Sammy Laver, Ross McCullie, Gary Prior
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Telecom, Network Controllers, Line Cards
1st place: RAD
Design team: Olga Goykhberg, Svetlana Zlotnik, Didier Halimi; Dorit Leizer, Sharona Manasherov
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
2nd place: Ericsson TV
Design team: Rob Dickinson, Paul White, John Curtis
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Transportation & Automotive
1st place: Visteon
Design team: Hai Pham, Padmanaban Kanagaraj, Krzysztof Russa
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
2nd place: Visteon
Designer: Nagarajan Mani
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
It was the second straight victory for Larry Paul of Qualcomm.
The on-demand webinar highlighting industry trends and the winners of the 2014 Technology Leadership Awards competition can be found at www.mentor.com/go/tla.
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.
