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Industry experts judged entries from 20 countries in six categories representing a wide variety of industries. New this year is the recognition of "Runners-up," since there were so many competitive entries that were mere points from the winning submissions. The PCB industry expert judges included Happy Holden, senior technology specialist of Mentor Graphics; Gary Ferrari, technical support director, FTG Circuits; Pete Waddell, vice president of UP Media, publisher of Printed Circuit Designs & Fabrication Magazine; and Rick Hartley, senior principal engineer, avionics division of L-3 Communications. 2008 Technology Leadership Award Winners

Category: Best Overall Design Company Name: Alcatel Lucent (France) using Expedition(R) Enterprise Design Team: Laurent Moquet, Jean-Claude Simon

Category: Consumer Electronics & Handhelds Company Name: Philips Consumer Lifestyle (Belgium) using Board

Station(R), XtremePCB(TM) Design Team: Pascal Pardo, Goedgebeur Emmanuel, De Pauw Bertrand, De

Keyzer Randal, Vanderghote Jean-Christophe, Parmentier Jurgen

Runner Up: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Japan) using

Expedition Enterprise

Category: Industrial Control, Instrumentation, Security & Medical Company Name: GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms (USA) using Expedition

Enterprise, XtremePCB Design Team: Jack Henslee, Fred Girgenti, Owen Wells

Runner Up: CiBOARD Electronic GmbH (Germany) using Expedition

Enterprise, HyperLynx(R)

Category: Military & Aerospace Company Name: DRS Technologies (Canada) using Expedition Enterprise,

HyperLynx Design Team: Robert Turzo, Andre Demers

Runner Up: L-3 Communications (USA) using Expedition Enterprise,

HyperLynx

Category: PC Computers and Peripherals Company Name: ACCM Computing (Egypt) using Expedition Enterprise Designer: Ahlmed Essam

Runner Up: Xerox Corporation (USA) using Expedition Enterprise

Category: Telecommunication Switches, Network Servers, Base Stations

and Computer Mainframes Company Name: Broadcom Corporation (USA) using Expedition Enterprise Design Team: John Mehlmauer, Michael Hurt

Runner Up: RAD Data Communications Ltd. (Israel) using Expedition

Enterprise

Category: Transportation and Automotive Company Name: AVL List GmbH (Austria) using Board Station, I/O

Designer(TM) Design Team: Wolfgang Rinner, Gernot Fernitz, Ewald Schenkirsch

Runner Up: Johnson Controls (USA) using Expedition Enterprise,

Quiet(TM) Expert

About Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) 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 over the last 12 months of over $875 million and employs approximately 4,350 people worldwide. Mentor Graphics, Expedition, Board Station and HyperLynx are registered trademarks and XtremePCB, I/O Designer and Quiet Expert are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.