XMOS wins prestigious Electron d'or award

XMOS Semiconductor, the creator of Software Defined Silicon, has won the Intellectual Property and FPGA category of the annual Electron d’or awards. The Electron d’or trophy was presented to XMOS VP Customer Marketing Noel Hurley at a ceremony held at the headquarters of FIEN, France’s Electronic and Numeric Industries Network in Paris.

Now in its 11th year, the Electron d’or awards recognise those electronic products the editorial team of Electronique magazine believes have made the biggest impact in the last 12 months. The awards’ independent panel of French electronics industry experts determined that XMOS first product family, the XS1-G, merited the prestigious Electron d‘or for 2008. Runners-up in the IP and FPGA category included Actel, Altera and Xilinx.

Picking up the award on behalf of XMOS, Noel Hurley said, "Winning the Electron d’or is a real honour which reflects our international standing in the reconfigurable semiconductor space. It recognises our hard work over the past three years and tells us that an independent body of industry experts thinks that what we've doing is impressive. With the launch of our first product, we’re now entering a new phase and are ready to grow the business”.

XMOS Semiconductor launched its first Software Defined Silicon product at the ESC Silicon Valley Exhibition in San Jose in April 2008. The XS1-G product family comprises three devices offering a choice of 1,2 or 4 of the company’s unique XCore™ event-driven, multi-threaded processor tiles. The first available family member is the XS1-G4.