Winners chosen at the embedded award 2025

From around 130 submissions, 27 products were nominated for the nine categories of the embedded award. The nine winners were presented with their awards at a festive ceremony.

“We are seeing that the world of embedded systems continues to show a high pace of innovation and technological progress. It is not a sudden revolution, but a rapid succession of many, many developments in various embedded technologies across the embedded systems industry,” explains Prof. Dr. Axel Sikora, Chairman of the embedded world Conference and head of the embedded award jury. “It is particularly interesting to see that in most cases, it is more than one company working in the same direction, as can be seen from the developments in the field of embedded AI or embedded vision in particular.”

The 130 or so submissions came from large companies, small firms, and startups - “an excellent and very representative mix for the embedded world community,” according to expert Sikora. The jury of seven experts selected three nominated products in each award category back in mid-February. The winners were chosen at an awards ceremony.

Winner embedded award 2025

Artificial intelligence

heartKIT AI development kit

• Exhibitor: Ambiq
• Hall/Booth: 4-581

Hardware

Cadence base system Chiplet

• Exhibitor: Cadence design systems
• Hall/Booth: 4-219

Electronic displays

8” Micro-LED IRIS PHUD

• Exhibitor: Tianma
• Hall/Booth: 1-350

Embedded Vision

D500R WORM SD / D500R WORM microSD

• Exhibitor: Team Group Inc.
• Hall/Booth: 5-239

Safety&Security

TROPIC01

• Exhibitor: Tropic Square
• Hall/Booth: 5-373

SoC/IC/IP design

Trimension NCJ29D6: Ultra-Wideband IC

• Exhibitor: NXP Semiconductors
• Hall/Booth: 4A-222

Software

Driver

• Exhibitor: Driver
• Hall/Booth: 3A-332

Startup

AI Bunker

• Exhibitor: Accelerat
• Hall/Booth: 4-625

Tools

Catapult AI NN

• Exhibitor: Siemens EDA
• Hall/Booth: 5-119

embedded award jury

The seven-member expert jury consisted of:

• Prof Dr.-Ing. Axel Sikora: Head of the Advisory Board of the embedded world Exhibition, Chairman of the embedded world Conference, head of the embedded award jury, Offenburg University / Hahn-Schickard
• Prof Karlheinz Blankenbach: Chairman of the electronic displays conference committee, Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
• Caspar Grote: Product Manager Events, WEKA Fachmedien GmbH
• Prof Dr. Jean-Philippe Lauffenburger: Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
• Jeff Bier: President of engineering consulting firm BDTI, founder of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance
• Randall Restle: President of Restle LLC
• Prof Dr. Weiyan Hou: Faculty of Information Technology, Zhengzhou University, China

The community was asked to vote for the community choice award

Every member of the embedded community had a vote and could vote for their favourite of the 27 nominated products in the nine categories. Voting for the community choice award was closed during the official award ceremony. The community choice award was presented for the second time and was once again very well received by the community.

Winner of the community choice award 2025

D500R WORM SD / D500R WORM microSD

• Exhibitor: Team Group Inc.
• Hall/Booth: 5-239