Avnet's X-fest Breaks Records in Bangalore

More than 300 engineers scramble to attend global technical seminar

BANGALORE, India, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Avnet's X-fest 2012 global seminar series, which took place in Bangalore on July 17, set a new country attendance record by attracting more than 300 engineers, more than doubling the number of attendees who attended the same event last time and significantly exceeding the expected 200 attendees. The X-fest series of one-day training events for FPGA, ARM MCUs, DSP and embedded system developers, was organized by Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia, a business region of Avnet, Inc (NYSE: AVT).

X-fest has attracted significant interest in sessions held in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou. Beijing X-fest also set a new breaking record with almost 1,000 people attending the event, while the Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou sessions also drew higher-than-expected numbers of Avnet customers. Planning is already underway for upcoming events in Singapore, Bangkok, Xi'an, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Shenyang, where there are signs of equally healthy interest. The seminar series will continue until the end of August. Registration is open at Avnet's online portal: http://www.xfest.avnetasia.com.

"The success and overwhelmingly positive responses for X-fest Bangalore demonstrate that engineers find the event truly helpful to their work. They learned a lot about how to design their products with new technology," said Terence Tan, regional president, Avnet Electronics Marketing, South Asia and Korea.

"The record attendance at X-fest in India is a testimony to our ability to understand what our partners truly need and demonstrates our commitment to delivering added values," said Tan.

His views were echoed by Ramani Sundaresan, managing director of Avnet Electronics Marketing India.

"Avnet is committed to bringing new technology to customers and at this year's X-fest, we feature revolutionary technology - 28nm, Zynq-700 EPP and Xilinx 7-series as well as new applications. Through this event, we are also able to deliver system level solutions that facilitate time-to-market benefits for our customers. Our team of experienced engineers and our partners have come together to directly interact with their fellow engineers, showing them the best ways to integrate today's leading technology into their designs," said Sundaresan.

The X-fest 2012 program features twelve technical courses based on Xilinx's new Artix™-7, Kintex™-7 and Virtex™-7 FPGAs, as well as the new Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) family. Attendees have the ability to customize their day by selecting four courses from any of the three unique training tracks:

• The FPGA Fundamentals track features four courses aimed at common design issues facing both new and advanced FPGA designers. Topics around Xilinx 28nm 7 series FPGAs include power design, optimizing memory interfaces, clocking and PCIe interface implementations.
  
  
• The Applications track delves deeper into design methodologies and techniques required in designing with the Zynq™-7000 EPP and 7 series FPGAs. Application-oriented topics include wireless communications, motor control, video and real-world analog processing.
  
  
• The Zynq™-7000 EPP track provides four courses dedicated to the ARM dual core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ based device. Topics include an introductory overview of the Zynq-7000 EPP architecture, Zynq-7000 EPP development tools overview and software acceleration techniques using the Zynq-7000 EPP's programmable logic.

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About Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia

Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has a significant presence in Asia. With its regional headquarters in Singapore, the company has offices in 49 locations in Asia. Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia distributes semiconductors, interconnects, passive and electromechanical components to serve a wide range of customers including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers, and small- to medium-sized businesses, and provides associated design-chain and supply-chain services. More information is available at http://www.em.avnetasia.com.

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