RFEL wins Company - and Design Team - of the Year at Elektra Awards 2014
Above: (left to right) Andy Parsons, Dr Alex Kuhrt (RFEL CEO), Dr Steve Parker (RFEL Project leader), Neil Dickin (Director IC Resources) and Richard Wilson (Editor Electronics Weekly).
RFEL wins both Company and Design Team of the Year at Elektra Awards 2014
At the Elektra 2014 European Electronics Industry Awards held on Wednesday 26 November 2014, RFEL was awarded Design Team of the Year and Company of the Year.
The company's Real-time HD Video Stabiliser enables video images to be enhanced in real time for surveillance, military and counter terrorism applications. This would normally require powerful, power-hungry processors but RFEL's design team created a solution on a single, low power FPGA chip. The judges said that the software and hardware design elements carried out by the design team were of equally outstandingly quality.
The Company of the Year award was selected by the judges for the company that has demonstrated outstanding achievements in business success and technology innovation. The judges said that RFEL has created a team of exceptionally skilled software and hardware designers who are contributing leading edge signal processing technology to international companies and consortiums.
A landmark for the company this year was being engaged by Oxford University to prepare the initial signal processing study contract for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project at Jodrell Bank.
From its research centre on the Isle of Wight, RFEL is also providing its FPGA-based processing expertise to a European consortium developing a driver assistance system for the military.
Richard Wilson, Editor of Electronics Weekly that organises the Elektras, said, "RFEL is a worthy winner of these awards. The company shows that British electronic design expertise is world class."
Dr Alex Kuhrt, RFEL's CEO, who collected the awards, added, "The majority of our work is covered by NDAs as it is for governments or for companies who come to us because we can provide a leading edge solution that gives them a commercial advantage. It is therefore wonderful to have our design work recognised in public by our peers in the electronics industry."
RFEL Ltd is a UK-based innovative electronic systems designer, providing real-time high specification signal, image and video processing products, FPGA solutions and design services to defence, security, communications and instrumentation markets.
