SiliconIndia Mentor Graphics Leadership Awards for the Embedded/VLSI Industry

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SiliconIndia Mentor Graphics Leadership Awards for the Embedded/VLSI Industry
Bangalore: SiliconIndia, a leading portal in the IT News and Media category and Mentor Graphics, a leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, announced the '2010 Leadership Awards for the Embedded/VLSI Industry'. These awards recognize the contribution of various companies/individuals in driving the Semiconductor industry. The best in the embedded software industry were honored. Speaking about the awards, Walden C. Rhines, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mentor Graphics said, ?This award will inspire future leaders to tread a path of success and triumph. It will celebrate the success stories and honor companies/ individuals who have transformed stumbling blocks into stepping stones driven by their passion, determination and undying spirit of entrepreneurship. The award will salute the business leaders of tomorrow within the Embedded/ VLSI industry?. Harvi Sachar, Founder & CEO, SiliconIndia said, "Being a media company focused on technology & business, over the last decade we have been regularly talking to corporate leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals in the semiconductor industry. We have brought out several stories on how India has evolved in this space and profiled companies/ individuals contributing to this ecosystem. The awards that we have instituted is one more step in our endeavor to strengthen the ecosystem by recognizing companies/ individuals who have made it happen". The winners of these prestigious awards were chosen by a panel of jury consisting of eminent leaders; Guru Ganeshan, Managing Director, ARM-India Operations; Vivek Sharma, Vice-President Asia Pacific & India Operation, Director India Research Centers, STMicroelectronics; Srini Rajam, Chairman and CEO, Ittiam Systems; Dr. Satyanarayan Gupta, CEO, Concept2Silicon Systems; Pravin Desale, Vice President, Milpitas CA (Storage Components Division), LSI; Santhanakrishnan Raman, Managing Director, LSI India R&D and Rajiv Kapur, Managing Director, Broadcom India. The SiliconIndia Mentor Graphics Leadership Awards for the Embedded/VLSI Industry is the first annual awards and one of its kind for the VLSI/Embedded industry. Awardees: Best VLSI/ Embedded Design - MNC Qualcomm Best VLSI/ Embedded Design Established Indian company HCL Best VLSI/ Embedded Design Startup Cosmic Circuits Best Electronic System Design company -MNC Cisco Best Electronic System Design company - Established Indian company Tejas Networks Best Electronic System Design company - Startup Redpine Signals Award for Youngest Entrepreneur in Semiconductor space Notion Ink Team (Rohan Shravan, Rohit Rathi and Sachin Ralhan) Outstanding Contribution to VLSI/ Embedded Design Industry - Corporate Wipro Outstanding Contribution to VLSI/ Embedded Design Industry - academic institution IIT Kharagpur Outstanding Contribution to VLSI/ EmbeddedDesign Industry - Individual Dr. Bobby Mitra, President and Managing Director of Texas Instruments India

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