Microwaves & RF is proud to reveal the winners of the 2025 Edge Awards, celebrating pioneers and innovation in design and engineering, as chosen by readers like you.

Microwaves & RF, along with affiliate brands Electronic Design, Machine Design, Power & Motion, Laser Focus World, Military + Aerospace Electronics, Vision Systems Design, Automation World, and Control Design, helped select this year’s winners and honorees in 12 categories as well as an overall Leading EDGE Winner, recognizing the innovation with the most votes.

Below are winners and honorees by category; winners will receive a physical award honoring their achievement in the 2025 EDGE Awards.

Leading Edge Award Winner

Marvell Ara 3 nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 Optical DSP Platform from Marvell Technology

AI Data Analytics

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) hardware and software that incorporates — or is designed to improve — product quality, supply-chain management and production throughput.

Winner

TMS320F28P550SJ C2000™ 32-bit MCU with integrated NPU from Texas Instruments

Honorees

AI Dashboard Vision from Arch Systems

IPC RS-828A from Siemens

Cabling & Enclosures

Hardware meant to hold controls and electronics as well as monitor the temperature, pressure, humidity, etc., inside the enclosure, such as terminal blocks and cabinet coolers. 

Winner

MX-System from Beckhoff

Honorees

XTVMEA 6 from Phoenix Contact

Enclosure Protector Attachment (EPA) from Inventive Resources, Inc.

Communications & Networks

Wireless and wired systems, modules, and software that facilitate communication between chips, modules, and systems, including I/O modules and cloud communications. 

Winner

Morse Micro MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow SoC from Morse Micro

Honorees

ET 200clean from Siemens

Fuse AIRE (AI Radio Environment) + RANGER (Radio and Network Guidance, Evaluation and Response) from Fuse Integration

Computing Hardware, Software and Systems

Edge-computing devices and interfaces, as well as associated compute, storage, design, and analysis systems. 

Winner

OPDPRO.CARE from Opdenhoff Technologie GmbH

Honorees

Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform from Ambiq.com

Lattice Nexus™ 2 FPGA Platform from Lattice Semiconductor

Electronic Components

Passive electronic components like capacitors, transistors or diodes, connectors, cables, antennas, and switches. 

Winner

SCi Blocks SiP block converters from Spectrum Control

Honorees

ACS37030 from Allegro MicroSystems

RES60A-Q1 integrated 1.4kV precision resistor divider from Texas Instruments

Industrial Controllers

This category includes PLCs, PACs, and IPCs.

Winner

Failsafe Virtual PLC S7- 1517V F from Siemens

Honorees

Allen-Bradley Logix SIS safety instrumented system from Rockwell Automation

Innovated SIMATIC S7- 1516T/1517/1518 Technology Controllers from Siemens

Machine Vision and Optical Components & Systems

This category includes adaptive optics, optical materials, coatings, precision optics, micro-optics, lenses, mirrors, aspheres, prisms, and freeform optics. This category also considers lighting products for machine-vision applications, cameras, sensors, lenses, filters, lighting, frame grabbers, software, and systems. 

Winner

LMH13000 integrated high-speed lidar laser driver from Texas Instruments

Honorees

Linea HS2 from Teledyne DALSA

Inspekto from Siemens

Motion Control Components

Pneumatic, hydraulic, and electric motion control components and systems, including actuators, cylinders, ball screws, motors and drives, and accessories such as fasteners, bearings, gears, belts, and chains, as well as fluids, filters, and compressed air systems. 

Winner

SIMATIC S7-1200 G2 from Siemens

Honorees

HTI BIMORPH™ µ-Actuators from TDK Hutchison Technology Inc.

ENERGEN™ from Sun Hydraulics, LLC

Production Tools and Systems

This category includes creation of chips, printed circuit boards, components, and systems as well as all mechanical and machine tool operations, welding, soldering, and adhesives focused on metal or component joining, plus materials used to fasten and secure components. 

Winner

THERMOMARK E.300 DOUBLE from Phoenix Contact

Honorees

Wafer-Scale SWIR Photodetector Platform from Aeluma

Varistat Benchtop Ionizer, 230V from EXAIR

Robotics

Single-axis and multi-axis robots for assembly, product inspection, and supply chain use as well as cobots, AGVs, and other robotic transport vehicles. This also involves software related to robotics, including fleet management and robot operating systems. 

Winner

SIMATIC Robot Pick AI PRO from Siemens

Honorees

KR 1205 Edge Edition from Kassow Robots

SIMATIC Robot Simulator from Siemens

Visualization

This category includes HMI, SCADA, and dashboard applications.

Winner

SIMATIC S7-1200 G2 NFC iOS App from Siemens

Honorees

Mobile Augmented Reality App from EXAIR

Shiftconnector Tier Collaboration Dashboard from eschbach