WILSONVILLE, Ore., Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its
tradition of promoting and recognizing printed circuit board (PCB)
design excellence, Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today
announced the winners of its 26th 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 Michael R.
Creeden, San Diego PCB CEO and founder; Gary Ferrari, FTG Circuits technical support
director; Rick Hartley, RHartley
Enterprises principal engineer; Steve
Herbstman, SHLC founder and lead designer; Happy Holden,
Gentex Corporation (retired); Andy
Kowalewski, Metamelko LP senior interconnect designer;
Pete Waddell, president of UP Media
and publisher of Printed Circuit Design & Fab/Circuits
Assembly Magazine; and Susy
Webb, Fairfield Nodal senior
PCB designer.
2015 Technology Leadership Award
Winners
Category: Best Overall Design
- Company: Abaco Systems Ltd.
- Design team: Jim Rose,
Zeshan Hussain, Eric Mills, Peter
Woodruff
- Using: Xpedition® Enterprise
Category: Computers, Blade & Servers, Memory
Systems
- 1st place: Adcom
- Design team: Moshe Frid,
Elad Marciano, Alon Kukliansky
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
- 2nd place: Seagate Technology LLC
- Design team: Keith
MacLean, Andre' Dutko
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Category: Consumer Electronics & Handhelds
- 1st place: Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
- Design team: Bryan Selby,
Scott Moyes
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
- 2nd place: LG Electronics
- Design team: Kyu-seon Ahn, Sang-geun Kim, Sang-don
Kim
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Category: Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security &
Medical
- 1st place: Keysight Technologies
- Design team: Michael
Villaruel, Ryan Carlino,
Steve Draving, Don Logelin, Lewis
Dove, Nick Fernandez,
Jeanne Snow
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
- 2nd place: Sintecs BV
- Design team: Tom Berends,
Paul ten Wolde, Wouter Stapper,
Henk Mengerink, Maarten Tettero, Andrei Tuturou
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Category: Military & Aerospace
- 1st place: BAE Systems – Electronic Systems – Rochester
(UK)
- Design team: Tim Chapman,
Tim Rotter, Steve Mann, Peter
Frid, Jack Silson
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
- 2nd place: ASELSAN MGEO
- Design team: Umur Akıncı, Cenk
Erim, Ahmet Mert,
Emre Akdemir, Serap Sarıkavak, Recep
Kızılkaya, Alper Akca, Kazım Yumbul,
Cihan Aslan, Ozan Tekdur, Seda
Karatekin, Sezer Yıldız, Halil İbrahim Yaşlak
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Category: Telecom, Network Controllers, Line Cards
- 1st place: Coriant Oy
- Design team: Sauli
Kunnas, Hannu Saarikoski,
Paavo Perälä, Sami Jokinen,
Jyrki Vuorinen, Jycke Sulka-aho, Leo
Haapavuo, Jyrki Nyyssönen, Päivi Vallin, Juha Ahvenainen
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
- 2nd place: Nokia
- Design team: Markus Välkky, Olli-Antti Laine, Pekka Kähkölä, Ari Oinas, Jarmo Leskelä, Janne Toppila
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
Category: Transportation & Automotive
- 1st place: Visteon Corp.
- Design team: Sadeesh Ramachandran, Nagarajan Mani, Ankita
Karambelkar, Srikumar
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
- 2nd place: Visteon Corp.
- Design team: Sadeesh Ramachandran, Niyazahmed Attar,
Nagarajan Mani, Sowrirajan Senthil Kumar
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
The on-demand webinar highlighting industry trends and the
winners of the 2015 Technology Leadership Awards competition will
be posted shortly 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 in excess of
$1.24 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, 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.)
For more information, please contact:
Larry Toda
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664
larry_toda@mentor.com
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