MEET THE 2024 ELEKTRA AWARD WINNERS!

The Elektra awards took place on Tuesday 10 December at the IET London, Savoy Place.

Congratulations to all winners, finalists and highly commended!

Products Winners

Partner: 

Winner: Renesas Electronics - RAA279 four-channel AHL video decoder for economical surround view

Analog Devices - 10BASE-T1S MCU-less Ethernet to Edge Bus (E2B) technology

ENNOVI - ENNOVI-Net automotive 10Gbps+ Ethernet connector 

Microchip - Trust Anchor TA101 IC 

Micron - Micron 4150AT NVMe quad port SSD with SR-IOV

Molex - Molex MX-DaSH data-signal hybrid connector portfolio

Partner: 

Winner: Synopsys - Synopsys.ai Copilot

AllSpice.io - AllSpice Actions Hardware DevOps

Lattice Semiconductor - Lattice Propel

Percepio AB - Percepio DevAlert 2.0

 Percepio AB - Tracealyzer SDK

 Renesas Electronics - AI Workbench - cloud-based environment to accelerate automotive AI software development and evaluation

 Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH - RDK3 development kit 

Siemens EDA - Tessent RTLPro

 The Embedded Kit - The Embedded Kit, the production- and maintenance-ready operating system for embedded Linux systems

Winner: Taoglas - Inception HP5354.A “Patch-in-a-Patch” antenna

Advantech Europe - UTC-124 

DnaNudge - World’s first 20-minute retail Express DNA test 

Eskan Electronics - Eskan - Lica 4 

Renesas Electronics - ISLVERSALDEMO2Z power reference design for AMD’s XQRVC1902 Versal Adaptive SoC

Winner: Omron Electronic Components Europe B.V. - G9KC, fo

Same Sky - AMT24 Absolute encoder series

Empower Semiconductor - EC1005P silicon capacitor 

ENNOVI - Net Automotive 10Gbps+ Ethernet Connector

 Molex - MX-DaSH (Data-Signal Hybrid) connector portfolio

 Murata - Parasitic element coupling device for Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 communication 

OMC (Optoelectronic Manufacturing Corporation) - OMC H19 fibre optic microprocessor shield for Arduino Uno

Winner: Vicor Corporation - Kitekraf flying wind turbine

Eggtronic - SmartEgg technology

 Innoscience - ISG3202LA SolidGaN integrated half-bridge GaN IC 

Navitas Semiconductor - 4.5 kW AI server power reference design 

 Omron Electronic Components Europe B.V. - G9KC, four-pole high power PCB relay

 QPT - qGaN technology

 SemiQ - QSiC 1200V MOSFET modules 

Silicon Labs - xG26 family of wireless SoCs and MCUs 

Smiths Interconnect - Hypertac Green Connect hyperboloid high power contact technology 

XP Power - HPF3K0 series of AC-DC power supplies

Winner: Novelda AS - NOVELDA X7 UWB radar SoC and turnkey module

Highly Commended: Phlux Technology - Aura Noiseless InGaAs avalanche photodiode (APD) infrared

Efficient Power Conversion - EPC2361 - first GaN FET with 1mΩ onresistance

 Impinj - Impinj M800 series RAIN RFID tag chips

 Melexis- MLX90830 - Triphibian absolute MEMS pressure sensor IC

 Navitas Semiconductor - GaNSafe power ICs sensors

Renesas Electronics - FemtoClock 3 with 25fs-rms jitter

 SiTime - Epoch platform MEMS OCXO

Partner: 

Winner: Ambarella - N1 AI So

Highly Commended: Lattice Semiconductor - Lattice Avant™ FPGA platform

Alphawave Semi - I/O chiplet

 Ambiq - Apollo510 MCU

MediaTek - MediaTek Dimensity 9300+

Nordic Semiconductor - nPM1300 power management IC (PMIC)

  Renesas Electronics - Renesas AI MPU RZ/V2H

 Renesas Electronics - RA8 series MCUs based on Arm Cortex-M85 processor

Silicon Labs - xG26 family of wireless SoCs and MCUs 

Socionext Europe GmbH - SC1320A Nessum communication IC

Winner: GSS - CozIR-Bli

Highly Commended: Silicon Labs - FG28 sub-GHz wirel

NeoCortec - NeoMesh wireless mesh network technology

Socionext Europe GmbH - SC1320A Nessum communication IC

Winner: Rohde and Schwarz - R&S MXO 5 oscilloscope

ITECH ELECTRONICS - IT6600C bidirectional programmable DC power supply

 Snaptron - Sapphire force-displacement switch test machine

Solid Sands - SuperGuard Amsterdam version 1.2

Winner: GroundWaves - Haptic sneakers

Highly Commended: Navitas Semiconductor - 4.5 kW AI server power reference design

Alphawave Semi - I/O chiplet

 EdgeCortix - SAKURA - II edge AI platform

 QPT - qGaN technology 

Silicon Motion - SM2322 single-chip controller for high-density portable SSDs

 Sunseeker - Sunseeker X7 robotic lawnmower

People Winners

Winner: NXP Semiconductors - NXP S32N design team

 i4 Product Design - electronics team

Slipstream Engineering Design - Slipstream Engineering Design 

Synaptics - Synaptics Astra development team

Partner: 

Winner: Katalytik - Educating Inclusive Engineering Leaders

Highly Commended: CamCare UK - Generations in making

Red Pitaya - Hands - on experience for every electronics student. An educational experiment with LEGO and Red Pitaya

Winner: Dr Huan Li - CGD - Cambridge GaN Devices

Olivia Jones - Axiom Manufacturing Services

 Dr Kalparupa Mukherjee - CGD - Cambridge GaN Devices 

Aimee Wyatt - Pragmatic Semiconductor

 Júlio César Costa - Pragmatic Semiconductor 

Wei Sam - Slipstream Engineering Design

 Anthonin Verdy - Weebit Nano

Company Winners

Winner: TTI

Ethicronics 

Rochester Electronics 

Slipstream Engineering Design

Partner: 

Winner: Custom Interconnect

Highly Commended: Axiom Manufacturing Services

 Incap Electronics UK

 OMC (Optoelectronic Manufacturing Corporation)

Smiths Interconnect

Partner: 

Winner: Silveray

Forefront RF 

Phlux Technology 

QPT

Reader's Choice Award: University Research Group of the Year

Partner: 

Winner: Nottingham Trent University

Aston University

Bath University

 Glasgow University

 Leicester University

 Oxford University