February 11, 2009 -- At this month's DesignCon 2009, held Feb. 2 ? 5 in Santa Clara, the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) announced the winners of the 2009 DesignVision Awards program, celebrating the premier design tools and products judged as the most unique and beneficial to the semiconductor industry. IEC EVP Roger Plummer presented the DesignVision Awards live before the conference's keynote address.
The 2009 DesignVision winners include the following companies and products in their respective categories:
IC Design Tools -- Mentor Graphics Corporation for the Olympus-SoC Parallel Timing Analysis and Optimization
Design Verification Tools -- Sequence Design for PowerArtist
Interconnect Technologies and Components -- Molex Incorporated for the Impact Backplane Connector System
PCB Design Tools and Technologies -- PCB Matrix for the Symbol Wizard
Semiconductor Components and ICs -- Xilinx for the Xilinx Virtex-5 TXT FPGA Platform
Semiconductor IP -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. for the ChipEstimate.com IP Ecosystem
System Modeling and Simulation Tools -- Signal Integrity Software (SiSoft) for the Quantum Channel Designer
Test and Measurement Equipment -- SyntheSys Research, Inc. for the DPP 12500A-4T
"Both the winners and finalists of the DesignVision Awards certainly exemplify some of the 'BRIGHTEST Minds in Electronic Design,' which is what we themed this year's event," commented Plummer. "We thank all participants of this year's awards program and applaud the commitment and vision that advances the semiconductor industry, which is well represented through this year's award-winning contributions."
On the Web:
www.designcon.com/2009/
