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
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.
About the Technology Leadership Awards Contest
The TLA contest is open to any designs created with Mentor Graphics® PCB solutions. 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.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:
MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last fiscal year of about $1.15 billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor, PADS, and Xpedition are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.)
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