Digi-Key and Freescale Unveil “Design With Freedom” Product Design Contest Winners

Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery and Freescale® Semiconductor and ARM today announced the winners of the “Design With Freedom” product design contest, in conjunction with the electronica conference in Munich. The competition encouraged European design engineers to submit prototype innovations built with one of Freescale’s Freedom line of cost-effective development platforms and Digi-Key’s complimentary Scheme-it online design software.

“Having thousands of engineers engaged in this activity made it difficult to select finalists let alone winners,” said David Sandys, Director, Digi-Key Supplier Marketing. “In the end, it was incredible to see how many entrants effectively leveraged the Scheme-it design tool for PCB design which resulted in some very unique board innovations based on Freescale and ARM technology.”

Contest winners were awarded valuable prizes and recognition for their submissions at electronica.

Here is the list of the top award winners:

Phase I
1st Place – Best Hardware and Software Submission:
Jacek Chrapkowski				Wireless Home Automation System
2nd Place:
Ryszard Milewicz				NetHome
Honorable Mention:
S R Karthik Raja				Wireless Spy Bot
Adam Sojecki				Glass cockpit for Ultralight Aircraft
Ashley Mills				Mushroom Control
Phase II
1st Place – Best Hardware and Software Submission:
Clemens Valens				Kinetisizer
2nd Place:
Yuri Tikhonov				miniRobo
Honorable Mention:
Ronald Coppersmith				Stepper Motor Control and Interface

Links to the top ten winning designs can be found at http://www.eeweb.com/freedomcontest.

The contest was supported by Convergence Promotions, the leader in ARM core-based programs, Aspen Labs, the designer of Scheme-it, and EEWeb, a leading online electrical engineering community.

About Digi-Key Corporation

Digi-Key Corporation, based in Thief River Falls, Minn., is a global, full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, offering more than four million products from over 650 quality name-brand manufacturers. With over one million products in stock and an impressive selection of online resources, Digi-Key is committed to stocking the broadest range of electronic components in the industry and providing the best service possible to its customers. Additional information and access to Digi-Key’s broad product offering is available at www.digikey.com.

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