Avnet X-Fest Seminar Series Wraps to Rave Reviews

Avnet X-Fest Seminar Series Wraps to Rave Reviews

August 16, 2007

Avnet and Xilinx End 90-City Global Technical Seminars,
Exceed Expectations


    SINGAPORE, Aug. 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Avnet
Electronics Marketing (NYSE: AVT) and Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq:
XLNX) have concluded their 90-city global X-Fest technical
seminars. More than 7,000 attendees flocked to the
technical sessions held across the globe. Attendance
exceeded expectations in all regions.

    (Logo: http://www.xprn.com/xprn/sa/200703010917.jpg )
 
    Working with key technology suppliers such as Xilinx,
Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor and Analog
Devices, X-Fest seminars offered attendees practical,
how-to training around system-level design for FPGA, DSP
and embedded systems designers and ran worldwide in
locations throughout Europe, Asia, Japan and North America.
The global tour began in April and ended last month.

    Attendees said the solutions approach was the biggest
draw of the event, praising the quality of the technical
content of the workshops. 

    "I liked the fact that the X-Fest seminars showed
the actual capabilities of the products, which is what I
came to see," said Rolf Thompson, a U.S.-based design
engineer for L-3 Communications. "I was also impressed
to see such a large cross-section of the supplier community
involved in the event - having all the suppliers that
support the Xilinx chips in one place was really helpful.
X-Fest was a great opportunity to talk with other engineers
and learn from their experiences with these
technologies."

    "X-Fest is a well organized event, which has
offered a series of practical training programs, especially
in the domain of Embedded Systems and Digital Signal
Processing. Through the one-day program, the multiple
learning tracks have provided the delegates with a diverse
selection of the topics to attend," said Chen Xiaofan,
Senior HW/FW Engineer, Engineering Distributed I/O, Rockwell
Automation Asia Pacific Business Center Pte Ltd.

    Strong attendance numbers and overwhelmingly positive
post-conference comments indicate the need for this type of
collaborative effort to support the needs of the market. 
Tim Barber, vice president of global Xilinx marketing for
Avnet Electronics Marketing said, "Our vision for
X-Fest was to deliver detailed, real-world system design
concepts that would apply directly to the challenges and
experiences of working engineers. The positive feedback we
have received from customers around the globe confirms that
they derive huge value from the very unique multi-vendor,
technical format that X-Fest delivered." 

    "X-Fest truly set a precedent in our
industry", said Chris Henry, vice president of channel
sales at Xilinx. "It was an ideal platform to expose
designers to a broad range of real-world topics wired
specifically to help them advance their Xilinx design
efforts. Never before have so many FPGA-centric solution
providers come together on a worldwide scale to help
customers experience first-hand how Xilinx FPGAs can be at
the heart of successful end products."

    Plans are already underway for the next X-Fest
technical seminar series, which is tentatively scheduled to
begin in the fall of 2008. 

    About Avnet Electronics Marketing 

    Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of
Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a Fortune 500
company. Avnet Electronics Marketing serves electronic
original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic
manufacturing services (EMS) providers in 70 countries,
distributing electronic components from leading
manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and
supply-chain services. The group¡¯s Web
site is located at http://www.em.avnet.com .

    About Avnet 

    With more than 250 locations serving customers in 70
countries worldwide, Avnet (NYSE: AVT) markets, distributes
and adds value to the products of the
world¡¯s leading electronic component
suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers and embedded
subsystem providers.

    Additionally, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of
service capabilities, such as supply-chain optimization,
logistics solutions, product assembly, device programming,
computer system integration and engineering design
assistance. For the fiscal year ended July 1, 2006, Avnet
generated revenue of $14.25 billion. Visit
http://www.avnet.com/ . 

    About Xilinx 

    Xilinx, Inc. is the worldwide leader of programmable
logic solutions. For more information, visit
http://www.xilinx.com .

		




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