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
- Custom Interconnect
Highly Commended: Harwin
Start-up of the Year
- Picocom
Highly Commended: Quantum Power Transformation
Automotive Electronics Award
- 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
- 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)
- Microchip – PIC32CM LS60 microcontroller
Test Product of the Year
- Keysight Technologies – Radar Scene Emulator
Design Team of the Year
- Ignys – Electronics design and software development team
Educational Support Award
- RS Grass Roots – RS Grass Roots Education
Rising Star Award
- Nathan Dickson – BT
Highly Commended:
- Claudia Ferreira – Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult
- Toby Lane – Ignys
Readers’ Choice Award: University Research Project of the Year
- University of Bristol – Artificial fingertip to produce signals to mimic human touch nerve signals
See also: Elektra Awards – the shortlist