Mentor Graphics announces winners of its 19th Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , CA -- Mentor Graphics Corp. announced the winners of its 19th Annual PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. Technology Leadership Awards at a banquet in coordination with PCB Design Conference West. This year the program attracted a record number of submissions from countries around the world, including Germany, Switzerland, China, Norway, Singapore, Austria, Canada, Korea, India, Israel, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Industry experts judged entries ill six categories: PC Computers and Peripherals; Consumer Electronics and Handhelds; Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security and Medical; Military and Aerospace; Telecommunication Switches, Network Servers, Base Stations and Computer Mainframes; Transportation and Automotive; and Best Design Overall. "Mentor Graphics is committed to the PCB designer community, and our PCB Technology Leadership Awards program provides the opportunity to showcase the most innovative and talented designers worldwide," said Henry Potts, vice president and general manager, systems design division, Mentor Graphics. "This year we saw a significant increase in the complexity of the submissions, with designs including high-speed, pin densities and layers, as well as use of advanced PCB fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. like microvias. This further validates our investment in innovative design technologies, thus enabling designers to overcome these challenges and deliver competitive electronic products, faster." This year's panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
This year's Technology Leadership Awards winner for the Best Overall Design is the PCB design team from Siemens, including: Helmut Riedl, Manfred Hofstatter, Michael Heider and Alfred Fuchs. The Siemens team's winning entry is a reconfigurable FPGA-based signal processing platform on PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. . This design was created using Mentor Graphics Board Station RE, HyperLynx and AutoTherm tools. Mentor Graphics honored award winners at a banquet on Wednesday, March 28th, at the Villa Montalvo Center in Saratoga, California. The 2007 Technology Leadership Award Winners are: Category: Best Overall Design Company: Siemens. Designer/s: Helmut Riedl, Manfred Hofstatter, Michael Heider and Alfred Fuchs. Description: Reconfigurable FPGA-based signal processing platform. Category: Consumer Electronics & Handhelds Company: Qualcomm Inc. Designer/s: Larry Paul, George Cordero, Mahmoud Azartash, Anil Kukreja, Vinh Nguyen, Andy Green and Vivek Khushoo. Description: RUMI II Mobile Station Modem (MSM MSM - Micronetics Standard MUMPS ) chip emulation card. Category: Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security & Medical Company: Gage Applied Technologies Inc. Designer/s: Chantal Holloway and Guillaume Turgeon. Description: Rabbit high-speed digitizers. Category: Military & Aerospace Company: L-3 Communications. Designer/s: Jason Harames and Rolf Thompson. Description: XFUSION Hybrid Switch Model (HSM (1) (Hierarchical Storage Management) The automatic movement of files from hard disk to slower, less-expensive storage media. The typical hierarchy is from magnetic disk to optical disc to tape. ) CCA (1) (Common Cryptographic Architecture) Cryptography software from IBM for MVS and DOS applications. (2) (Compatible Communications A . Category: PC Computers and Peripherals Company: Fujitsu-Siemens. Designer/s: Andreas Schaefer, Markus Wicher and Harald Lugert. Description: Mainboard Same as motherboard. for business PCs. Category: Telecommunication Switches, Network Servers, Base Stations and Computer Mainframes Company: IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Zurich Research Laboratory. Designer/s: Peter Dill. Description: Controller board for a 64x64 port high-performance optical switch. Category: Transportation & Automotive Company: AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) See mobile positioning. List GmbH. Designer/s: Wolfgang Rinner, Josef Haring, Franz Summerauer and Alfred Poelz. Description: Dual gigabit, Ethernet concentrator (high-speed communication and control interface). EDITED BY KATHY NARGI-TOTH |
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