The Elektra Awards shortlists for 2022 are revealed
Author: EIS Release Date: Sep 22, 2022
Electronics Weekly is proud to reveal the Shortlists for this year’s Elektra Awards, the industry’s largest technology and business awards.
Elektra Awards shortlists revealed for 2022
The judges have discussed, considered and sorted this year’s cutting-edge entries and they’ve produced a very strong list of finalists. You can view the full set of shortlists below for a year that marks the twentieth anniversary of the awards. Congratulations to all!
Winners will be revealed at a prestigious awards dinner at the Grosvenor House hotel on London’s Park Lane on Wednesday 30 November. You can book your table at the event.
Manufacturer of the Year
Sponsored by:
Custom Interconnect
Harwin
Sfera Labs
VNC Automotive
Start-up of the Year
Agile Analog
Kigen
Picocom
Quantum Power Transformation
Automotive Electronics Award
Sponsored by:
Ambarella, Inc. – CV3 AI Domain controller SoC family
AMD – Versal AI Edge series
Microchip – Switchtec Gen 4 PCIe switches
Omnivision – OV05B1S
onsemi – VE-Trac Direct SiC modules
Power Integrations – 1700 V InnoSwitch3-AQ SiC
Rohm Semiconductor – Nano Cap technology – automotive LDO regulators
Siemens EDA – Secure- CAV advanced cyber security
Winbond – Winbond OctalNAND flash
XMOS – Disrupting the ALPR market with xcore.ai
Design Tool and Development Software Product of the Year
Sponsored by:
AMD – AMD-Xilinx Versal ACAP VCK5000 development card
AMD – Kria KR260 robotics starter kit
Cadence – Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer
Codasip – Codasip Studio 9.1
Ignion – Ignion Antenna Intelligence Cloud
Imagination Technologies – PowerVR SDK
Microchip – Microchip PolarFire SoC
Nordic Semiconductor – nRF Connect SDK
Siemens EDA – mPower power integrity analysis platform
STMicroelectronics – NanoEdge AI Studio
Excellence in Product Design Award (High-Reliability Systems)
Inspur Information – Inspur NF5180M6 server
Nicomatic – DBMM series integrated backshell MIL-DTL-8351G micro connectors
Octavo Systems – The OSDZU3 system-in-package
Silogic Technology – Predictive maintenance for wind turbines
Smiths Interconnect – NXS series
Excellence in Product Design Award (Medical)
HIRO – Edge Micro Data Centre (EMDC)
Omnivision – OH08B
onsemi – AI-enabled audio processor
Internet-of-Things Product of the Year
Sponsored by:
AMD – AMD-Xilinx Versal ACAP VCK5000 development card
AMD – Kria KR260 robotics starter kKit
ByteSnap Design – WAND remote data collector
Inspur Information – Liquid-cooled rack server ORS3000S
Nestwave – NestCore IP & NestCloud
onsemi – RSL15
Renesas – Ultra-low power ZMOD4510 outdoor air quality sensor platform
Silicon Labs – BG24 and MG24 families of 2.4 GHz wireless SoCs
Socionext Europe – SC1233AR3 – 24GHz radio wave sensor
Socionext Europe – ZETag with ZETA LPWAN
Synaptics – FlexSense 4-in-1 sensor fusion processor
Synaptics – Triple Combo SoC
Wittra Networks – WiTTRA unified IoT gateway
LED Lighting Product of the Year (*NEW for 2022*)
ams-Osram – Oslon square batwing LED
Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA Catapult) Catapult – Project LUSS (LED-based ultra violet exposure for safe surfaces)
Indie Semiconductor – iND83211 intelligent driver for high power automotive LEDs
Pulsiv – Elimination of inrush current
Passive & Electromechanical Product of the Year
Harting – Han-Modular Domino modules
Molex – Molex quad-row board-to-board connectors
Panasonic Industry Europe – High current power inductor M15A0MF
Panasonic Industry Europe – High voltage 500V high precision thin film chip resistor – ERA*P
Panasonic Industry Europe – JX series: ultra-low ESR capacitor with high reliability
Panasonic Industry Europe – R35K connector
Snaptron – SG-Series domes
STMicroelectronics – ISM330IS — iNEMO
Vishay Intertechnology – MCB RAME012
Power System Product of the Year
Advanced Energy – ASCENT SMS AP10 10kW power supply
CC Cell – Digital living reefs
Eggtronic – SmartEgg AC/DC conversion for PFC
Empower Semiconductor – Empower IVR EP71XX quad-output family
Navitas Semiconductor – GaNFast half-bridge IC with GaNSense technology (NV6247)
Navitas Semiconductor – GaNFast power IC with GaNSense technology (NV6169)
onsemi – Silicon carbide MOSFET
Panthronics – PTX130W NFC wireless charging controller
Power Integrations – HiperLCS-2 chipset
Power Integrations – HiperPFS-5 Family ICs
Powerbox International – Cosel’s AEA1000F
Quantum Power Transformation – Delivering theefficiency of Gallium Nitride
Silanna Semiconductor – SZ1131, Active Clamp Flyback (ACF) controller family
Texas Instruments – UCC14240-Q1, 3-kVRMS
Semiconductor Product of the Year (Analogue)
Analog Devices – AD4130-8
Analog Devices – ADIN1110
ISDI – TY-2222 wafer scale CMOS image sensor
Navitas Semiconductor – GaNFast half-bridge IC with GaNSense technology (NV6247)
Navitas Semiconductor – GaNFast Power IC with GaNSense technology (NV6169)
onsemi – NCP1681 mixed-signal controller
Panthronics – PTX130W NFC
Texas Instruments – TMAG5170 linear 3D Hall-effect position sensor
Semiconductor Product of the Year (Digital)
Sponsored by:
Ambarella, Inc. – CV3 AI Domain Controller SoC family
AMD – AMD-Xilinx Versal ACAP VCK5000 development card
AMD – Kria KR260 robotics starter kit
CEVA – PentaG2
Empower Semiconductor – IVR EP71XX quad-output family
HBI – Renesas RZ/Five MPUs
Lattice Semiconductor – Lattice MachXO5-NX
MediaTek – MediaTek Dimensity 9000
Microchip – PIC32CM LS60 microcontroller
Picocom – Picocom PC802
Synopsys – Path Margin Monitor IP
Test Product of the Year
BT – OneTest automated testing tool – BT network integration test
Keysight Technologies – Radar Scene Emulator
MK Test Systems – RTS wire harness test system
Red Pitaya – X-Channel system for multi-channel RF signal acquisition and generation
Rohde & Schwarz – RTO6 oscilloscopes
Smiths Interconnect – Interconnect’s DaVinci Micro series
Tektronix – 2 Series mixed signal oscilloscope (MSO)
Yokogawa – WT5000 precision power analyser – Transformer version
Design Team of the Year
Sponsored by:
ByteSnap Design
Ignys – Electronics design and software development team
Melexis – Melexis’ Tactaxis design team
Educational Support Award
Sponsored by:
Red Pitaya – Supporting students and professors with free educational material
RS Grass Roots – RS Grass Roots Education
Spacechips – Educating today’s and tomorrow’s space-electronics engineers
Rising Star Award
Sponsored by:
Nathan Dickson – BT
Tom Culley – BT
Zain Nazar – BT
Claudia Ferreira – Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult
Toby Lane – Ignys