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San Jose, Calif., Zurich, Switzerland, 29 March 2007—Continuing
its tradition of promoting and recognizing printed circuit board
(PCB) designer excellence, Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:
MENT) yesterday announced the winners of its 19th Annual PCB Technology
Leadership Awards at the PCB Design Conference West in San Jose,
USA. Among the winners for the longest running international competition
of its kind for PCB designers in the IT industry was Peter Dill
from IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Zurich Research Laboratory.
Industry experts judged entries in six categories representing
a wide variety of fields: Personal Computers & Peripherals;
Consumer Electronics & Handhelds; Industrial Control, Instrumentation,
Security & Medical; Military & Aerospace; Telecommunication
Switches, Network Servers, Base Stations & Computer Mainframes;
Transportation & Automotive; and Best Overall Design.
IBM designer Peter Dill won the prestigious industry prize in the
category Telecommunications Switches, Network Servers, Base Stations
& Computer Mainframes. His winning entry is a controller board
for a 64×64 port, high-performance optical switch using Mentor
Graphics' leading design tools. The controller board was one of
the most complex designs ever developed and was a core component
in the OSMOSIS research project on next-generation optical switch
technology in high-performance computing systems. In cooperation
with US-based Corning Inc., the leading manufacturer of specialty
glass and ceramics, IBM's computer scientists developed a novel,
highly distributed and highly scalable scheduler architecture that
allows a bufferless switch to operate with extremely high throughput
rates. With Peter Dill as head PCB designer for the controller board,
IBM researchers implemented this complex architecture for a 64-port
optical switch technology demonstrator, achieving line rates of
40 Gb/s.
The winner of the Best Overall Design was a PCB design team at
Siemens, Germany. "Mentor Graphics is committed to the PCB
designer community. Our PCB Technology Leadership Awards program
provides the opportunity to showcase the most innovative and talented
designers worldwide," said Henry Potts, vice president and
general manager, systems design division, Mentor Graphics. "This
year we saw a significant increase in the complexity of the submissions,
with designs including high-speed, pin densities and layers, as
well as the use of advanced PCB fabrication Such as microvias. This
further validates our investment in innovative design technologies,
thus enabling designers to overcome technical challenges and deliver
competitive electronic products faster."
More on the 2007
Technology Leadership Award winners.
More on IBM's OSMOSIS
project.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation
is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions,
providing products, consulting services and award-winning support
for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues of about $800
million over the past 12 months and employs approximately 4,250
people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W.
Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777.
Mentor Graphics, Board Station, HyperLynx and AutoTherm are registered
trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or
product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their
respective owners.
About the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
The IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (ZRL) is the European branch
of IBM Research. This worldwide network of some 3500 employees in
eight laboratories around the globe is the largest industrial IT
research organization in the world. ZRL's spectrum of research activities
ranges from basic science and fundamental research in physics and
mathematics, to the development of computer systems and software,
to the design of novel business models and services.
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