Elektra Awards 2023 – Finalists revealed

The finalists, in all the categories are listed below. The Winners will be revealed at a prestigious awards dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane on Wednesday 29 November, and you can book your table at the event.

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DESIGN TEAM OF THE YEAR

Blueshift Memory Design Team

Ignys

Nanusens

Slipstream Engineering Design – Live Dig Radar

Weebit Nano Memory Design & Layout team

Sponsored by: Napier

 

RISING STAR AWARD

Dr Izgun Gunsal – Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult

Feroz Khan – Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult

Dr Matthew Douthwaite – Crypto Quantique

Daniel Whiting – Peratech Holdco

Sponsored by: BWW

 

EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AWARD

Distrelec – Support at every turn: how Distrelec inspires the electronic designers and engineers of the future

Maven Silicon – Best VLSI training institute

Red Pitaya – Empowering students and professors to develop cutting-edge projects

Spacechips – Educating today’s and tomorrow’s space electronics engineers

UK Electronics Skills Foundation – UKESF Girls into Electronics 2022

 

Company

MANUFACTURER OF THE YEAR

Custom Interconnect

Filtronic

Incap Electronics UK

Offshore Electronics

OMC – The Optoelectronic Manufacturing Corporation

Winbond Corporation

 

START-UP OF THE YEAR

Morse Micro

Pulsiv

Q5D

QPT

Sponsored by: Analog Devices

 

Products

AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS AWARD

Ambarella – Ambarella’s centrally processed 4D imaging radar architecture for autonomous mobility systems

Analog Devices – ADI’s wireless battery management system

Keysight Technologies – Keysight E8717A lidar target simulator

onsemi – Hyperlux automotive image sensor family

Pico Technology – The MT03A Milliohm and motor tester kit

Renesas Electronics – Integrated development environment for ECU-level automotive software development without hardware

Silicon Motion Corp – Automotive-grade PCIe NVMe SSD controllers

SiTime – SiT1623/25 automotive oscillators

Socionext Europe – SC1260AR3 ultra-compact, ultra-low-power 60GHZ radio-frequency sensor

Synaptics – The SmartBridgeTM SB7900 local dimming IC

 

DESIGN TOOL AND DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

Advantech Europe BV – DeviceOn AIoT device management and edge orchestration

Cadence – Cadence joint enterprise data and AI (JedAI) platform

Eseye – Eseye AnyNet SMARTconnect on-device connectivity software

Iprova – Invention Studioᵉᵛᵒ

MikroElektronika [MIKROE] – Planet Debug

Nexperia – Interactive datasheets for mosfets

Peratech Holdco – Sensor Sandbox simulation suite

Qorvo – QSPICE power simulator

Siemens Digital Industries Software – Tessent Multi-die

STMicroelectronics – STM32Cube.AI developer cloud

Sponsored by: Swindon Silicon Systems

 

EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD (HIGH-RELIABILITY SYSTEMS, INC MEDICAL)

ams OSRAM – AS5911 CT detector ADC (analogue-to-digital converter)

Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult – Secure 5G

Eskan Electronics – Eskan Orbis 15

Murata Electronics Europe BV – Murata soil sensor

OMNIVISION – OP03011

Pulsiv – Pulsiv OSMIUM

Silicon Labs – EFR32BG27 Series 2 Bluetooth wireless SoC

Silicon Motion Corp – PCIe NVMe FerriSSD single-chip SSD

Silogic Technology – Gluon4

 

INTERNET-OF-THINGS PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

AMD – AMD Zynq UltraScale+ SoC-solution for radar retail operating system

Astrocast – Astronode S

Atmosic Technologies – ATM33

Eseye – Eseye AnyNet SMARTconnect on-device connectivity software

Intrinsic ID – Intrinsic ID Zign X00 embedded software solutions

Morse Micro – Morse Micro Wi-Fi HaLow

Nordic Semiconductor – nRF7002 Wi-Fi 6 Companion IC

Silicon Labs – EFR32BG27 Series 2 Bluetooth Wireless SoC

 

LED LIGHTING PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

Diodes Incorporated – AL5887 dual digital interface, multi-channel LED driver for RGB and single-colour solid-state lighting

indie Semiconductor – iND83080 matrix controller

Samsung Electronics Co – LM281B+ PRO2

 

PASSIVE & ELECTROMECHANICAL PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

Harting – Han Push-In

Panasonic Industry Europe – High-reliability, compact TLE series POSCAP polymer tantalum capacitors

Schaffner – Schaffner RV8140 RV choke

SiTime – SiT5503 Elite X Super-TCXO

STMicroelectronics – LSM6DSV16X – 6-axis IMU with embedded sensor fusion, AI, Qvar for high-end applications

Vishay Intertechnology – EP2 high energy, ultra high capacitance wet tantalum capacitor

 

POWER SYSTEM PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) – ICeGaN HEMT ICs

Cosel – Cosel GHA700F

Eggtronic – ClassEgg

Mornsun Guangzhou Science & Technology Co – Mornsun higher standard enclosed power supply LM-R2 series

Navitas Semiconductor – Navitas GaNSense control power ICs

Power Integrations – 900V-rated InnoSwitch3-AQ flyback switcher IC family

QPT – qGaN module

Silanna Semiconductor – SZPL3002A

STMicroelectronics – ACEPACK1 and ACEPACK2 SiC power modules

TDK-Lambda – MU4 modular 1U high power supply

 

 

SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCT OF THE YEAR (DIGITAL)

Ambarella – Ambarella’s centrally processed 4D imaging radar architecture for autonomous mobility systems

ams OSRAM – Mira050 – compact 0.5 MP near IR enhanced global shutter image sensor

MediaTek – MediaTek Dimensity 9200+

Microchip Technology – Microchip cryptoauthentication and cryptoautomotive ICs

NXP Semiconductors – S32G3 vehicle network processor

Renesas Electronics – The Renesas RZ/V2MA MPU

Semidynamics – Atrevido

Texas Instruments – AM6xA vision processor family

Sponsored by: WIN SOURCE Electronics

 

SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCT OF THE YEAR (ANALOGUE)

Analog Devices – MAX22196

Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) – EPC’s GaN ePower

Eggtronic – ClassEgg

MediaTek – MT6825 non-terrestrial network chip

Microchip Technology – Microchip MIC69303RT 3A low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator

Navitas Semiconductor – Navitas GaNSense control power ICs

NXP Semiconductors – SAF85xx 77GHz, 28nm RFCMOS automotive radar one-chip SoC

onsemi – NCS32100 rotary position sensor

Texas Instruments – Ultrasonic lens cleaner (ULC) chipset (ULC1001 and DRV2901)

 

TEST PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

ITECH Electronic Co – IT2800 graphical source measure unit

Keysight Technologies – Keysight E8717A lidar target simulator

Neumonda Technology – Rhinoe DRAM tester

Pickering Interfaces – MEMS-based PXI/PXIe RF multiplexer family [40/42-878]

Pico Technology – PicoScope 7 T&M user interface and toolset

Red Pitaya – Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-14 4-input

Rohde & Schwarz – R&S MXO 4 Series oscilloscope

Solid Sands – SuperGuard library safety qualification suite

Synopsys – Synopsys TSO.ai (test space optimisation AI)

 

Readers’ Choice

READERS’ CHOICE AWARD: UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GROUP OF THE YEAR

Winner to be announced on the night, but don’t forget you can still vote to help decide the winner.

Sponsored by: Panasonic Industry