Elektra Awards 2022 shortlist
Author: EIS Release Date: Oct 12, 2022
Electronics Weekly is proud to reveal the shortlist for this year’s Elektra Awards, the industry’s largest technology and business awards
Our panel of distinguished judges has been impressed by the calibre of entries to this year’s Elektra Awards. They have discussed and evaluated all the entries and finalised the shortlist revealed here.
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Company categories
Manufacturer of the Year sponsored by BD Electronics
Custom Interconnect
Harwin
Sfera Labs
VNC Automotive
Start-up of the Year
Agile Analog
Kigen
Picocom
Quantum Power Transformation
Product categories
Automotive Electronics Award sponsored by TKO Marketing Consultants
Ambarella – 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
Excellence in Product Design Award
(High-Reliability Systems)
Inspur Information – Inspur NF5180M6 server
Nicomatic – DBMM series integrated backshell MIL-DTL-83513G 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
Design Tool and Development Software Product of the Year sponsored by Swindon Silicon
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 – PolarFire SoC – Smart Embedded Vision development platform
Nordic Semiconductor – nRF Connect SDK
Siemens EDA – mPower power integrity analysis platform
STMicroelectronics – NanoEdge AI Studio
Internet-of-Things Product of the Year sponsored by Micron
AMD – AMD-Xilinx Versal ACAP VCK5000 development card
AMD – Kria KR260 robotics starter kit
ByteSnap Design – WAND remote data collector
Inspur Information –Liquid-cooled rack server ORS3000S
Nestwave – NestCore IP and NestCloud
onsemi – RSL15
Renesas – Ultra-low power ZMOD4510 outdoor air quality sensor platform
Silicon Labs – BG24 and MG24 families of 2.4GHz wireless SoCs
Socionext Europe – SC1233AR3 – 24GHz radio wave sensor
Socionext Europe – ZETag with ZETA LPWAN
Synaptics – FlexSense four-in-one sensor fusion processor
Synaptics – Triple Combo SoC
Wittra Networks – WiTTRA unified IoT gateway
LED Lighting Product of the Year
ams-Osram – Oslon square batwing LED
Compound Semiconductor Applications –
(CSA) 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
CCell – Digital living reefs
Cosel – Cosel’s AEA1000F
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
Quantum Power Transformation – Delivering the efficiency 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
Empower Semiconductor – IVR EP71XX quad‑output family
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 OmniVision
Ambarella – CV3 AI Domain Controller SoC family
AMD – AMD-Xilinx Versal ACAP VCK5000 development card
AMD – Kria KR260 robotics starter kit
CEVA – PentaG2
Lattice Semiconductor – Lattice MachXO5-NX
MediaTek – MediaTek Dimensity 9000
Microchip – PIC32CM LS60 microcontroller
Picocom – Picocom PC802
Renesas – Renesas RZ/Five MPUs
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
People categories
Design team of the Year sponsored by Analog Devices
ByteSnap Design
Ignys – Electronics design and software development team
Melexis – Melexis’ Tactaxis design team
Educational Support Award sponsored by Harwin
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 BWW
BT – Nathan Dickson
BT – Tom Culley
BT – Zain Nazar
Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult – Claudia Ferreira
Ignys – Toby Lane
Readers’ Choice Award: University Research Project of the Year sponsored by Panasonic
Winner to be announced on the night
Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner to be announced on the night
Thank you to the judges for your time, expertise and insights:
Stewart Edmondson, CEO, UKESF
Robert Nowill, chairman, Cyber Security Challenge UK
Roger Woods, dean of research, Faculty of Engineering + Computer Science, Queen’s University, Belfast
Paul Hide, CEO, AMDEA (Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances)
Adam Fletcher, chairman, ecsn (Electronics Components Supply Network)
Tim Wiles, senior development scientist, Peratech Holdco
Roger Thornton, principle hardware engineer, Raspberry Pi
Hannah Joshua, inventor/engineer
Calum Finn, former BrightSpark, now manufacturing systems engineer, Nestle
Robert Green, senior software engineer, CMR Surgical
Andy Sellars, chief business development officer, CSA Catapult
Adam Taylor, embedded systems consultant, Adiuvo Engineering and Training
Nike Folayan MBE, associate director, chartered electronics engineer; co-founder/chairperson, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK)
Anna Hart, former BrightSpark, now electronics engineer, Leonardo
Leesa Kingman, lead FPGA engineer, Expleo
Jessica Reading, Rising Star 2021, now engineering degree apprentice, Siemens
Fabiano Bellisario, co-founder and director, Hardware Pioneers
Max Kilthau, EYE Working Group