AMD and Mentor Graphics Corp. were named by winners consulting firm VDC Research Group Inc. of the firm’s “Embeddy” awards for best in show at the 2011 Embedded Systems Conference. AMD took home the hardware Embeddy for its embedded G-Series application processor unit (APU) product. AMD’s Radeon E6760 is the first graphics chip for embedded systems to support Microsoft’s DirectX 11, the OpenCL standard and up to six simultaneous displays, according to AMD. Mentor Graphics was awarded a software Embeddy for its Embedded Sourcery System Analyzer technology.