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Start-up of the Year

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Semiconductor Product of the Year

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3Dlabs - DMS-02 media processor

DisplayLink - DL-120/160 USB 2.0 PC/video interface

Icera - Livanto ICE8020 soft baseband device supporting HSPA

Silicon Laboratories - Si53xx any-rate precision clock device
Toumaz Technology - Sensium low power body monitor
Xilinx - 65nm Virtex-5 LX FPGA

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Power Systems Product of the Year

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Fairchild Semiconductor – Motion-SPM nine chip motion controller in SMD
Maxwell Technologies - HTM390 ultra-capacitor module
Power-One - 60A ZY8160 digital point of load converter with digital control
XP Power - MFA350 small form-factor 350W power supply

 

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CAP-XX – HS206 supercapacitor
Hypertac – HBB high current connector
ITT – Chip-on-flex filter technology
Murata Electronics UK – Safam series of boundary acoustic wave filters
Omron Electronic Components Europe – UWB antenna

 

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Design & Test Product of the Year

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Agilent Technologies – E6651A mobile WiMAX test set
Goepel Electronic - VarioCore multi-functional JTAG/boundary scan platform
National Instruments - LabVIEW 8.20 graphical system design platform
Pico Technology - PicoScope 5204 dual-channel 250MHz PC oscilloscope
Synplicity – TotalRecall, full visibility FPGA-based Asic prototyping
Tektronix - MSO4000 mixed-signal oscilloscope for embedded systems design
Thurlby Thandar Instruments - PSA-T series handheld RF spectrum analyser

 

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Altera - Nios II C-to-hardware (C2H) acceleration compiler
ARC International - VRaptor configurable processor architecture for multimedia applications
ARTiSAN Software Tools - Studio 6.2 OMG SysML tool suite
Geensys - Autosar design environment for automotive systems

Green Hills Software - DoubleCheck integrated static analyser and debug tool
National Instruments - cRIO-9014 CompactRIO controller for embedded design

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Clean Design Award

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Brainboxes – Reducing environmental footprint of its product design and manufacture

Ericsson Power Modules – Employing life-cycle assessment of the energy impact of its products
VIA Technologies - Sustainable computing and the carbon-free C7-D processor

 

Design Application Award

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Flownetix – 300 series low power non-moving part water meter 
Future Electronics - Blox multi-vendor reference design
Imagination Technologies – Multi-standard mobile TV receiver platform
International Rectifier - Sensorless motor control platform for variable-speed drive

picoChip - Femtocell basestation reference design

 

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Website Innovation Award

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Amplicon – Sales website for engineers and buyers
CSR – Use of microsites in an online marketing strategy
Vicor – PowerBench online power supply design tool

 

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Research & Development Award

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Binstead Designs - Touch interactive film technology
Fractus - Fractal antenna-in-package technology
Freescale Semiconductor -¬ Redistributed chip packaging (RCP) integrated die and package technology
MicroEmissive Displays - QVGA resolution microdisplay
Polymertronics - Inkjet printable, ultra-violet curable organic nanotechnology

 

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Company of the Year

 

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Company of the year will be chosen from the winners of each of the individual categories. Technology innovation and business success will be taken into account as the judges identify one company which demonstrates outstanding achievements.

Student Engineer of the Year Sponsored by Electronics Weekly have invited universities and colleges to enter their most outstanding students in electronics and software. Both undergraduate and post-graduate students were eligible to enter for this award. The winning student will demonstrate a combination of both technical knowledge and practical application of their skills. Lifetime Achievement of the Year Sponsored by This special award recognises an individual who, in the view of the judges, has made and continues to make a major contribution to the European electronics industry. This category was not open for nominations, the individual is selected by Reed Electronics Group.

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Product Innovation - Readers Choice

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Electronics Weekly is taking votes for its Product Innovation of the Year – Readers Choice as part of this year’s Elektra Awards.
Everyone who casts a vote via email will be entered for a prize draw and the chance to win 2 VIP tickets to the Elektra Awards and £100 of shopping vouchers.
The Readers’ Choice Award, which is sponsored by International Rectifier, gives readers to opportunity to make their choice from a shortlist of five innovative products.

 

1) Alpine Electronics Blackbird (PMD-B100P) portable navigation with a built-in radio data system (RDS) TMC tuner for receiving trafiic information. 

2) Cochlear's Nucleus Freedom speech processor for hearing aid implants.  

3) LG’s Super Multi Blue, an internal drive that can burn Blu-ray discs and play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. 

4) Nintendo’s Wii games console.

5) Philips VOIP841 Internet phone for both Skype and landline calls.

 

Send your choice for the Product Innovation of the Year to competitions@electronicsweekly.com and enter the prize draw for 2 VIP tickets to the Elektra Awards and £100 of shopping vouchers.

 

 

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