Continuing its tradition of promoting and recognizing printed circuit board (PCB) design excellence, Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the winners of its 25th annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards. Started in 1988, this program is the longest running competition of its kind in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. It recognizes engineers and designers who use innovative methods and design tools to address today's complex PCB systems design challenges and produce industry-leading products.
Prominent experts in the PCB industry judged entries from around the world in six categories that represent a wide variety of industries:
Consumer electronics and handheld
Industrial control, instrumentation, security and medical
Military and aerospace
Computers, blade and servers, memory systems
Telecom, network controllers, line cards
Transportation and automotive
The expert judges included Happy Holden, Gentex Corporation (retired); Gary Ferrari, FTG Circuits technical support director; Pete Waddell, president of UP Media and publisher of Printed Circuit Design & Fab/Circuits Assembly Magazine; 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 Graphics Systems Design Division director of engineering.
2014 Technology Leadership Award Winners
Category: Best Overall Design
Company: Alcatel-Lucent Italia
Design team: Fabrizio Crippa, Giovanni Villa, Sergio Pirovano, Massimo Pollastri, Stefano Cornini, Luigi Aldeghi, Fabio Villa, Paolo Scotti, Massimiliano Severi, Ivan Malaspina, Fabio Frigerio, Donato Maggi
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Category: Computers, Blade & Servers, Memory Systems
1st place: Seagate Technology LLC
Design team: Andre' Dutko, Keith MacLean
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
2nd place: Sanmina Corp.
Design team: Damodhar Chakravarthy Mallisetty, Tom Thomas, Birla Manoharan
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Category: 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
Category: Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security & Medical
1st place: Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Design team: Andreas Schaefer, Timo Bruderek, Joachim Bub, Andreas Titz, Willi Neukam, Peter Brau, Werner Hasubick, Rudi Haeussermann, 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
Category: 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
Category: 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
Category: Transportation & Automotive
1st place: Visteon Corp.
Design team: Hai Pham, Padmanaban Kanagaraj, Krzysztof Russa
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
2nd place: Visteon Corp.
Designer: Nagarajan Mani
Using: Xpedition Enterprise
