More than 300 engineers scramble to attend global technical seminar


    Avnet's X-fest 2012 ( http://www.xfest.avnetasia.com/ ) 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 ( http://www.em.avnetasia.com/ ), a business region 
of Avnet, Inc ( http://avnet.com ) (NYSE: AVT ( http://ir.avnet.com/ )).

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    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(TM)-7, Kintex(TM)-7 and Virtex(TM)-7 FPGAs, as well as the new 
Zynq(TM)-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(TM)-7000 EPP 
       and 7 series FPGAs. Application-oriented topics include wireless 
       communications, motor control, video and real-world analog 
       processing. 

    -- The Zynq(TM)-7000 EPP track provides four courses dedicated to 
       the ARM dual core Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) 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. 

    Connect with X-fest 

    Watch X-fest's videos at www.em.avnetasia.com or Avnet OnDemand 
(http://avnetondemand.com/avnet-in-asia/channel/74/ )
Like X-fest on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/#!/xfest2012 )
Follow X-fest on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/AvnetXfest )

    About Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia ( http://www.em.avnetasia.com/ )

    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 .

    For further information please contact:

    Jaime Chan
    +852-2410-2735
    jaime.chan@avnet.com

    Brian Paterson
    +852-2537-8022
    brian.paterson@ebacomms.com

    SOURCE: Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia