View video coverage of the 2007 Elektra Awards here.

Sir Robin Saxby, chairman emeritus at ARM, has been recognised for his major contribution to the UK's semiconductor design industry at the 2007 Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards.

The Elektra Awards were presented at a gala dinner in London's West End last night, with representatives from the electronics industry recognising the achievements of individuals and companies.

Presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Saxby, who was the first CEO of ARM, Elektra host Sir Trevor McDonald said: "Sir Robin Saxby embodies the combination of entrepreneurial and technical skills which has helped to give the UK a truly world class reputation in high quality semiconductor design."

There were joint winners of the Company of the Year Award with component distributor Anglia Components joining wireless IP firm PicoChip Designs on the winner's rostrum. This was one of three Awards for the Bath-based wireless semiconductor developer.

Bristol-based XMOS Semiconductor was named as Start-up of the Year while Barcelona-based Fractus won the R&D Award for its fractal antenna-in-package technology. 

Xilinx headed the product categories by winning the Semiconductor of the Year award with its 65nm Virtex-5 LX FPGA.

The worthy winner of the Student Engineer of the Year Award was Carol Marsh who is an EngD Research Engineer at the iSLI (Institute for System Level Integration), sponsored by Algotronix.

The full list of Elektra Award winners is as follows:

Embedded System Product of the Year
Sponsored by Gleichmann Sunrise

Altera - Nios II C-to-hardware (C2H) acceleration compiler

Design Application of the Year
Sponsored by Sony

PicoChip Designs - Femtocell basestation reference design

R&D Award
Sponsored by XJTAG

Fractus - Fractal antenna-in-package technology

Distributor of the Year
Sponsored by Intellect

Anglia Components
 

Manufacturer of the Year
Sponsored by Avnet
 
Powerlase
 

Fabless Semiconductor Supplier
Sponsored by Hamilton Parker

PicoChip Designs
 

Company of the Year
Sponsored by Amplicon  

Joint Winners - Anglia Components and PicoChip Designs

Design & Test Product of the Year
Sponsored by RS Components

Synplicity - TotalRecall, full visibility FPGA-based Asic prototyping

Passive & Electromechanical Product of the Year
Sponsored by EPN Magazine
 
Hypertac - HBB high current connector

Power Systems Product of the Year
Sponsored by Anglia

Maxwell Technologies - HTM390 ultra-capacitor module
 

Clean Design Award
Sponsored by Omron

Ericsson Power Modules - Employing life-cycle assessment of the energy impact of its products
 

Website Innovation Award
Sponsored by Display Solutions

Vicor - PowerBench online power supply design tool

Start-up of the Year
Sponsored by Varitronix

XMOS Semiconductor

Semiconductor Product of the Year
Sponsored by Azzurri Technology

Xilinx - 65nm Virtex-5 LX FPGA

Student Engineer of the Year
Sponsored by Rapid Electronics

Carol Marsh, Algotronix sponsored, iSLI EngD Research Engineer

Readers' Choice Product Innovation of the Year
Sponsored by International Rectifier

Electronics Weekly readers voted the Nintendo Wii games console as the Product Innovation of the Year.

A full gallery of pics from the event will follow, and a webcast of the awards should be appearing online on Friday.