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.