Elektra Awards 2022 – The Winners

This established annual high point of the electronics industry was hosted by the comedian Suzi Ruffell, and was watched by an enthusiastic audience representing all sectors of the industry.

See also: Elektra Awards 2022 Highlights: Guests and Attendees

Congratulations to all of the finalists, highly-commended entries and the winners. And thanks again to all the sponsors who make the event possible!

Thanks also to all the Judges for their valued effort.

You can see the full list of Elektra Awards 2022 winners below.

UPDATE: See further below for a gallery of pictures of all the winners receiving their awards

The Winners

Lifetime Achievement Award

Two people who have been so key to our industry. For example, among many other impressive achievements, they co-designed the 32-bit RISC Machine ARM processor!

Prof Stephen Furber CBE, FRS, FREng
Sophie Wilson CBE FRS FREng DistFBCS

Clive Couldwell, Group Editor of Electorincs Weekly, also paid tribute to two giants of our industry who left us recently, both of whom he had been privileged to have met:

Sir Clive Sinclair (1940 – 2021) – consumer electronics pioneer, and one of this country’s most prolific innovators

Professor Iann Barron, the Co-Founder of Inmos (1936 – 2022) – who developed parallel processing

 

Manufacturer of the Year

Sponsored by:

• Custom Interconnect

Highly Commended: Harwin

 

Start-up of the Year

• Picocom

Highly Commended: Quantum Power Transformation

 

Automotive Electronics Award

Sponsored by:

• onsemi – VE-Trac Direct SiC modules

Highly Commended: Ambarella, Inc. – CV3 AI Domain controller SoC family

 

Design Tool and Development Software Product of the Year

Sponsored by:

• Imagination Technologies – PowerVR SDK

 

Excellence in Product Design Award (High-Reliability Systems)

• Smiths Interconnect – NXS series

 

Excellence in Product Design Award (Medical)

• onsemi – AI-enabled audio processor

 

Internet-of-Things Product of the Year

Sponsored by:

• ByteSnap Design – WAND remote data collector

 

LED Lighting Product of the Year (*NEW for 2022*)

• ams-Osram – Oslon square batwing LED

 

Passive & Electromechanical Product of the Year

• Snaptron – SG-Series domes

Highly Commended: STMicroelectronics – ISM330IS — iNEMO

 

Power System Product of the Year

• CC Cell – Digital living reefs

 

Semiconductor Product of the Year (Analogue)

• Analog Devices – AD4130-8

 

Semiconductor Product of the Year (Digital)

Sponsored by:

• Microchip – PIC32CM LS60 microcontroller

 

Test Product of the Year

• Keysight Technologies – Radar Scene Emulator

 

Design Team of the Year

Sponsored by:

• Ignys – Electronics design and software development team

 

Educational Support Award

Sponsored by:

• RS Grass Roots – RS Grass Roots Education

 

Rising Star Award

Sponsored by:

• Nathan Dickson – BT

Highly Commended:

• Claudia Ferreira – Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult
• Toby Lane – Ignys

 

Readers’ Choice Award: University Research Project of the Year

Sponsored by:

• University of Bristol – Artificial fingertip to produce signals to mimic human touch nerve signals

 

See also: Elektra Awards – the shortlist